Travel Bug Dog Tag Austin Chalk

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Origin:
United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of sgray751.

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Current Goal

This travel bug wants to go to a geocache near Trondheim, Norway to visit a friend of ours. Then, this travel bug would like to go to as many parts of Europe as possible before coming back to the United States and dropped of in a geocache in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.

About This Item

This travel bug is a piece of the Austin Chalk from North Texas. It actually contains some ammonite (nautilus-like fossil) and gryphaea (oyster-type fossil) fragments. Our friend in Norway is a geologist who my wife and I worked with when we were working geologists. An outcrop of the Austin Chalk at Lake Texoma was one of the first places we visited when we all met back in the early 80's working for an oilfield service company in Dallas, Texas.

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Tracking History (39912.5mi) View Map

Dropped Off 11/21/2004 Dances with Gekos placed it in Die Quelle der Pioniere Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 171.71 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/5/2004 Dances with Gekos retrieved it from TB-Motel A8 Baden-Württemberg, Germany   Visit Log

Going north now
Dropped Off 10/22/2004 MaxB on the River placed it in TB-Motel A8 Baden-Württemberg, Germany - 28.57 miles  Visit Log
  • Motel A8 Tb's MaxB's Tour Group made a rest stop at teh Motel A8. Shown are TB's: Vulkanus, Geopirate, Purdy Red Reflector, Running Blue Bear, Scout Promise, Homesick Mickey and Austin Chalk.
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/21/2004 MaxB on the River retrieved it from TB-Airport Baden-Württemberg, Germany   Visit Log

Austin Chalk was suffering from jet lag after the transcontinental flight. After a short stop at the Airport TB Hotel, MaxB’s tour continued on to see more sites.

Dropped Off 10/21/2004 MaxB on the River placed it in TB-Airport Baden-Württemberg, Germany - 4,415.93 miles  Visit Log
Write note 10/13/2004 MaxB on the River posted a note for it   Visit Log

Austin Chalk has been working on his language skills and is ready to join MaxB's Escorted TB Group Tour "Deutschland Oktoberfest" leaving this weekend.

  • Tour Group MaxB's Escorted TB Group Tour "Deutschland Oktoberfest" try on their Alpine Wear and pose for a photo: Shown are TB's Travel Toad, Homesick Mickey, Austin Chalk, Professor Green, Leapin Lizard, Vulkanus, Geo Pirate, and Baarissa the Travel Sheep.
  • Alpine Rocks Austin poses infront of an Alpine Chalet
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/8/2004 MaxB on the River retrieved it from FLY-BY Wisconsin   Visit Log

Heard Wisconsin was the "Land of Beer". Took this opportunity to visit to get in shape for a Real Oktoberfest.
Dropped Off 9/8/2004 MaxB on the River placed it in FLY-BY Wisconsin - 517.03 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/2/2004 MaxB on the River retrieved it from Memphis East Travel Bug Inn Tennessee   Visit Log

Thought we'd help build up Austin's adventures before he heads across the pond.

  • Tour Group MaxB's Escorted TB Group Tour "Dairy Air" pose for a photo before heading out. Shown are TB's: VW Bug, Austin Chalk, Lucky Number 4, Compound Cacher, Flaming Mustang Mach1, and Treasure Mine or Yours?.
Dropped Off 9/2/2004 MaxB on the River placed it in Memphis East Travel Bug Inn Tennessee - 500.65 miles  Visit Log
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