My Dad's Ankh
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Owner:
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GeoWomyn_SF_CA
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Released:
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Friday, September 26, 2003
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Origin:
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California, United States
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Recently Spotted:
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In Reynolds Road Shave
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Sept 29, 2005 This TB has accomplished its goal and is no longer in circulation. I have it.
Story Behind This TB:
My Dad had a dream to travel to Ireland before he died. He didn’t make it.
Send us to Ireland, photographing places along the way. We would like to be returned to a geocache in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
This is my favorite photo of my Dad and me on a two week long camping trip in the Four Corners area (Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona). If you look closely, you can see my Dad wearing an ankh around his neck. He wore it for as long as I can remember.
My Dad was interested in Egyptian mythology as a teenager so I suppose that is why he wore it. Later on, as he grew older he must have integrated its meaning into his interfaith belief systems. I don't recall any deep conversations about it so I can only guess what it meant to him. I looked up the definition and found that the ankh symbolizes life after death so naturally I am rather comforted by seeing it now.
One of his last desires was to visit his "roots" based in Ireland. I am thinking maybe we can still do that through this travel bug. I like the thought that he still lives on in some way by being passed from hand to hand. He would have loved to have read about your journeys with geocaching :-) PS: Our last name is "Aldridge" and his mom's last name was "Carnahan."
July 27,2004
So far exceptional people have helped this TB move and have enriched its experience. My sister and I are really touched by everyone's efforts. When this TB comes back to me I plan to make a handmade book featuring these logs and the people who wrote them. I will interweave their lives with the story of my Dad's life. When I am done I plan to scan the book and turn it into a cache!
By the way, I would like Dad to visit at least ten caches in Ireland before coming home, but not isolated ones. Hopefully, he won't get stranded anywhere too long.
Thanks a million! :-)
September 05,2004
My dad has made it to Ireland where he wanted to go!!! Thank you all, you dear hearts, who made this possible. Now we want to tour Ireland and see the sights. My Dad would absolutely love this :-)
September 29th, 2005
Our goal has been accomplished and we are now ready to come back to the USA.
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Tracking History (26351.4mi) View Map
Marcus in Kerry retrieved it from Ring of Vinnie1
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Ireland
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Marcus in Kerry placed it in Ring of Vinnie1
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Ireland
- 17.83 miles
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Just calling for a brief visit to this cache on the beautiful Ring of Kerry.
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Marcus in Kerry retrieved it from Atlantic Whirlpool
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Munster, Ireland
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The Ankh spent a long time at the whirlpool, so now I will move it on during the next few days. Hopefully he will see a bit more of Ireland before returning to California.
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markandlynn placed it in Atlantic Whirlpool
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Munster, Ireland
- 363.15 miles
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Great spot to start his travels in Ireland. Hope you like all the pictures we took arround the cache this is certainly the best site we got to in ireland.
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markandlynn posted a note for it
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The ankh is now in Ireland but where????. We shall be logging him in the next 8 hours with all the photos. The location is really spectactular hope you watchers and owners all like the spot we found, we certainly did possibly the best cache we have ever been to and as we didnt make it to the top of GCJ39P (our other choice see the log for THAT day out later as well!!) definitely the best cache we found in Ireland. Some nice sea views if thats any help. All the best markandlynn. Date change edit
[This entry was edited by markandlynn on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 1:38:56 AM.]
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markandlynn retrieved it from Shropshire Souvenir Cache Bashe
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United Kingdom
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Saw this appear in the meeting cache and as we are of to Ireland before the meeting and we live so close to Jim we arranged to collect today. Shall drop off somewhere appropriate when we are in ireland during the next two weeks.
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The Time Lord placed it in Shropshire Souvenir Cache Bashe
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United Kingdom
- 63.1 miles
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The Time Lord grabbed it
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Grabbed this one from Guy and Caz when we were all in Wales. I will put it in the new Shropshire souvenir cache that will be opened up on 5 Aug for the Shropshire cache bash. I will take plenty of pictures of it and other bugs at the meet and then see if we can move it on to Ireland.
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Caz & Guy retrieved it from Earlswood Retreat - Earlswood Lakes
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United Kingdom
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Made a special journey out to collect this Tb from our cache. We were really touched by its mission and are determined to help it along on its way to make it to Ireland. We are heading up to North Wales at the weekend so will try to find a cache if possible to move the bug nearer to Ireland - Holyhead and the ferry won't be far away!!
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Belplasca placed it in Earlswood Retreat - Earlswood Lakes
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United Kingdom
- 86.39 miles
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