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Travel Bug Dog Tag Bella N. Ursula

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Owner:
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Released:
Sunday, November 23, 2003
Origin:
California, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of nifferdog.

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Current Goal

Bella was born at a Love’s truck stop in Arizona, where she met George of the Urban Jungle and became Real.

About This Item

Bella has become bored with the reality of being here, and wants to get out, get a facial, do some shopping, and maybe some antiquing. She is interested in art and literature, and would like to read whatever you are reading. Mainly, she wants to get out and see what’s in the world. With great good fortune, she would like to be reunited with George of the Urban Jungle travel bug, who was last seen touring the forests and jungles of the American Midwest.

Update on George: Spotted in Indiana, USA, in August 2008.

Bella enjoys being a travel bug, but resents being called simply a "bug." So please, call her "Bella the Travel Bug" or just "Bella," not "Bella the Bug."

Bella's Reading List

So far in her journey, Bella has read the following books:

"Art and Physics" Shlain(?)
"A Primate Memoir" Sapolsky
"The Founding Fish" McPhee
"Six Easy Pieces" Feynman
"Anza-Borrego A-Z" Lindsey
"Duden" (Bella's first book in German)
"Logik" Martinus (Bella's first book in Danish)
"Da Vinci Mysteriet" Brown
Collected Works - Shakespeare (in German)
Toward the end of 2007 Bella found herself living with a bookseller in Germany. It was apparently a sort of literary binge. She read many books, all kinds, but exact titles are not known.
"Words in a French Life" Espinasse

Other Significant Events in Bella's Journey


In the course of her travels, Bella's cultural growth and development has surpassed her wildest early dreams. In addition to reading some great books, Bella has:

  • Learned how to tend a garden.
  • Learned how to play classical music on the piano.
  • Learned how to speak German.
  • Learned how to speak Danish.
  • Visited Tom's grandfather's hometown, Copenhagen.
  • Attended a Confirmation.
  • Learned French.
  • Went malling in Edmonton.
  • Made her way to New South Wales, where Tom celebrated his 21st birthday (a very long time ago!)
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    Tracking History (23670.8mi) View Map

    Dropped Off 1/2/2008 Matthze placed it in TB-Hotel A30 Ibbenbüren P+R Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 40.11 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 12/28/2007 Matthze retrieved it from TB Grand Hotel A2 A30 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany   Visit Log

    Für den Jahreswechsel in eine weniger laute und ruhigere Umgebung geholt.
    Bella verbringt viel Zeit in einer Buchhandlung, lernt das Büchernörgeli kennen und schließt Freundschaft mit Maya, der Labradorhündin unserer Freundin Ursula (sic!).
    In den nächsten Tagen wird Bella N. Ursula zunächst auf den Weg in Richtung Amsterdam gebracht, damit sie ihrem George in Amerika näher kommt.

    We got her into a more quiet place for the turn of the year.
    As Bella, we are bibliophiles, too.
    With us, she spent a long time in my wife's bookstore, from where she didn't want to go away. At home, she made friends with Maya, the Labrador of our friend Ursula (that's her name, really!), and met the "Büchernörgeli", a caricature of the famous german reviewer Marcel Reich-Ranicki, which decorates our own bookshelf. We all couldn't get to sleep because of Bella wanting us to read aloud out of all our books all day and night.
    Within the next few days, Bella will be brought onto her way back to America, where her friend George waits for her, via Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
    We all wish her A Happy New Year and All the Very Best on her way back. We hope, she'll meet her friend soon.

    [This entry was edited by Matthze on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 3:39:27 PM.]

    [This entry was edited by Matthze on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 3:40:01 PM.]

    • Where is Bella? Bella found many books in the store...
    • So many books.... There are so many interesting books...
    • Bella in the Bookstore II I don't want to leave this place anymore...
    • Biographies So many (german) people writing 'bout their Lives
    • The  little man of Pixi Do you know the liitle Pixi-books in America, too? I like these very much, and this little man also!!!
    • A nice picture-book I like Picture-books, you can understand them without reading...
    • Büchernörgeli In Germany everybody knows, who this guy is!
Büchernörgeli means nagger or faultfinder on books and literature, they told me. And, of course, this is a caricature...?
    • being adopted... In the evening, Bella N. Ursula has been adopted by the Labrador of our friend Ursula, who visited us for the turn of the year. The dog is named Maya...
    • Maya and Bella whispering secrets Dogs also know some really interesting secret stories!
    • maya fell asleep Maya is very tired after telling so many stories. But I want to hear many more!!!
    • I want to go home... I think, it's time for me to go home, even though the people are very nice in my temporary home...
    Discovered It 12/26/2007 Oxmox78 discovered it   Visit Log

    We did see her waiting inside the Grand Hotel, couldn't help her on her mission, though!

    Dropped Off 12/24/2007 bhogi placed it in TB Grand Hotel A2 A30 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 21.29 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 12/21/2007 bhogi retrieved it from Ententeich Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany   Visit Log

    BHogi 2007-12-21 08-15

    • Christmas 2007 Bella had a nice Christmas time here in Germany.
    • Christmas 2007 Bella had a nice Christmas time here in Germany.
    Dropped Off 12/16/2007 chriskat2 placed it in Ententeich Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 21.8 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 12/9/2007 chriskat2 retrieved it from Ein Cache mit Folgen...der Zweite! Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany   Visit Log

    Nice TB. I´ll see where he goes next.

    Dropped Off 11/23/2007 vachesept placed it in Ein Cache mit Folgen...der Zweite! Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 63.2 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/10/2007 vachesept retrieved it from TB-Hotel A7 Raststätte Wülferode (Hannover) Niedersachsen, Germany   Visit Log

    Da werde ich dem Süssen Kerl mal bei
    der einen oder anderen Aufgabe helfen...

    ...wie wäre es mit einer Deutschstunde
    mit meiner Tochter....

    A wie Affe
    G wie Gorilla
    T wie Tschüss und gute Reise....

    VacheSept

    Discovered It 11/6/2007 heionu discovered it   Visit Log

    Gute Reise kleiner Freund!

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