Travel Bug Dog Tag Cheechako

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Owner:
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Released:
Sunday, June 30, 2002
Origin:
Netherlands
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of jelman.

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Current Goal

Cheechako would like to travel from geocache to geocache. Starting his journey in June 2002, his biggest wish was to make it to Alaska someday. On March 6th 2004, after 616 days and 12,051 miles he actually managed to reach that goal!

Now, after more than two years of travelling in the Great State of Alaska, enjoying countless adventures with local Alaskan cachers, Cheechako has decided to come home. If you can, please bring him back to Europe and the Netherlands.

About This Item

Cheechako  Pronounced chee-CHA-ko, or chee-CHA-ker by some old-time Alaskans, the word means tenderfoot or greenhorn. According to The Chinook Jargon a 1909 dictionary of the old trading language used by traders from the Hudson's Bay Company in the early 1800s, the word cheechako comes from combining the Chinook Indian word chee, meaning new, fresh or "just now," with the Nootka Indian word chako, which means to come, to approach or to become.

From The Alaska Almanac, 19th edition

For more information please take a look at Johny Cache's Geocaching Page. Look under 'Caches Hidden'. For questions Johny Cache can be reached at polaris@worldmail.nl

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    Tracking History (18083.6mi) View Map

    Dropped Off 7/9/2005 Team Bear Bait placed it in Alaska Geocoin Distribution - Fairbanks Alaska - 2.32 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 7/8/2005 Team Bear Bait retrieved it from Dutch Treat, een Nederlandse traktatie in Alaska Alaska   Visit Log

    Cheechako was found with another Netherlands TB, Purple Duck. Poor Cheechako had had enough of the swampy area and was covered with mosquito bites. He'll spend a bit of time sightseeing around Fairbanks while he recuperates and will then continue on with his Alaska adventure!
    Dropped Off 6/28/2005 RLTW placed it in Dutch Treat, een Nederlandse traktatie in Alaska Alaska - 3.34 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/28/2005 RLTW retrieved it from Grandpaw Bird Dog Alaska   Visit Log

    Next it is off to the X-change cache for me!
    Dropped Off 6/28/2005 RLTW placed it in Grandpaw Bird Dog Alaska - 20.27 miles  Visit Log
    • Hanging out near the Cache
    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/28/2005 RLTW retrieved it from Wood River Butte Alaska   Visit Log

    On to another adventure...

    • Nera the cache
    Dropped Off 6/27/2005 RLTW placed it in Wood River Butte Alaska - 3.55 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/27/2005 RLTW retrieved it from Welcome to Fairbanks!!! Alaska   Visit Log

    Off to another cache!
    Dropped Off 6/27/2005 RLTW placed it in Welcome to Fairbanks!!! Alaska - 45.09 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/27/2005 RLTW retrieved it from 1st Annual Summer Solstice Midnight Caching Event Alaska   Visit Log

    Spent a nice weekend down near Denali, getting ready to move this guy to a new home....
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