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Travel Bug Dog Tag Love Bug-Notrees Wood

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Owner:
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Released:
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Origin:
Texas, United States
Recently Spotted:
Unknown Location

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Current Goal

This trackable has the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days.   As of 22-Jul-21 it had survived for 5.3 years but it had been moved by only 14 cachers, for an average release every 138 days. Keep it moving!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

About This Item

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This is one of a series of heart-shaped items obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs. They are named either for the places of their origin or for Texas Panhandle-South Plains towns with interesting names or histories.  

Notrees is an unincorporated community in west central Ector County.  The area began to develop in the 1940s following the discovery of large oil fields including the TXL Field.  Notrees was known at various times as Caprock and Strawberry.  Local merchant Charles Brown petitioned for a post office and selected the descriptive name of Notrees. Reportedly, the community once had a single native tree but it was destroyed during the construction of a Shell Oil Company gas plant.  The community thrived during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, the population was 338 and the area was supported by several oil company camps and a few businesses. The community began to decline by the 1980s as a result of oil companies abandoning the camps that once provided housing for employees and their families because of an improved infrastructure that enabled workers to live elsewhere and commute to Notrees.  The community's small population currently supports four businesses and a post office.

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Tracking History (10164.5mi) View Map

Visited 3/2/2017 VikingChris took it to Historic Redings Mill Tour Missouri - 65.53 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/2/2017 VikingChris took it to "Ma" Kate Barker and Her Boys Oklahoma - 87.97 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/28/2017 VikingChris retrieved it from Earworm Cache Series: "Return to Sender" Missouri   Visit Log

I found it in a tipped over mailbox in a wooded area along a hiking trail. Will keep it moving. Here is a photo of its last home.

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Dropped Off 1/21/2017 R Scott placed it in Earworm Cache Series: "Return to Sender" Missouri - 507.1 miles  Visit Log
  • Love Bug on the Trail
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/2/2017 R Scott retrieved it from Coleman Road-In The Shade Texas   Visit Log

Picked it up on our way towards home on our trip to south Texas. Will move it on soon may eastern Oklahoma or Missouri.

Dropped Off 12/1/2016 TXLiz placed it in Coleman Road-In The Shade Texas - 148.65 miles  Visit Log
Discovered It 11/30/2016 Peig discovered it   Visit Log

Seen on the way to Spur TX today - thanks for sharing 😉

Retrieve It from a Cache 11/30/2016 TXLiz retrieved it from 82 Crosbyton E (Crosby Co, DeL 2017 48) Texas   Visit Log

Will move ASAP. Thanks!

Dropped Off 4/7/2016 shellbadger placed it in 82 Crosbyton E (Crosby Co, DeL 2017 48) Texas - 48.66 miles  Visit Log
Visited 12/25/2015 shellbadger took it to Patriot TB Hotel (Lubbock Co, DeL '17 47) Texas - 57.49 miles  Visit Log
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