Travel Bug Dog Tag Historical SPIKE

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Owner:
Tommy Trojan Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Friday, April 23, 2004
Origin:
California, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of boxcarjimmie.

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Hi ... I'm SPIKE and READY to RIDE THE RAILS of Geocaching! I've been told that I am hiustorical ... others have called hesterical! I come from the lower desert of California and was part of being the LAST SPIKE joing two large sections of railroad track (you can see the picture of the historical sign) ... anyways let show off together! SPIKE

*PLEASE DO NOT PLACE IN EVENTS
MULTI or REMOTE area caches*

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Let's MAKE TRACKS!

Thank you for taking along SPIKE who really does come from the the area of history in California. Take some pictures please and have FUN! All the best from Tommy Trojan, Helen of Troy and the Trojan Travelers - FIGHT ON!

1/23/6 Reissue copy - taken by "killick/lpn"

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Tracking History (14343.9mi) View Map

Dropped Off 9/9/2006 Sonic Rabbits West placed it in Ma and Pa Stanford's Old Red Barn California - 10.25 miles  Visit Log

Any self respecting railroad spike, much less a historic one, would need to travel to visit the Man who Drove the Golden Spike. This cache is right near a barn dating from Leland Stanford's farm. Old Man Leland, of course, drove the Golden Spike to finish the Transcontinental Railroad. Historical SPIKE has now made the pilgrimage. 🙂

(sorry to put this in a multi, but it's really just barely one. It's an offset cache of a few hundred feet, and in fact they've posted the final coordinates in the cache description. We decided the historical significance was enough to be worth it.)
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/6/2006 Sonic Rabbits West retrieved it from Stoned California   Visit Log

Tried to fit this in Stoned. Couldn't quite get the dog tag in with the rest of it. Guess I'll have to find a bigger cache.
Dropped Off 9/6/2006 Sonic Rabbits West placed it in Stoned California - 3.95 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/22/2006 Sonic Rabbits West retrieved it from The Cuesta Quest California   Visit Log

Now that's a travel bug.

We'll move it along, so it doesn't weigh down the caching backpack. 🙂

-Rosie & her Dad
Dropped Off 8/17/2006 Adamski Adventurers placed it in The Cuesta Quest California - 169.72 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/16/2006 Adamski Adventurers retrieved it from Alviso Marina -- Nature and History Walk California   Visit Log

Picking back up to drop into another cache!
Dropped Off 8/14/2006 Adamski Adventurers placed it in Alviso Marina -- Nature and History Walk California - 162.99 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/14/2006 Adamski Adventurers retrieved it from Under Lock & Key California   Visit Log

Pulling from this great train depot to move to another cache!
Dropped Off 8/10/2006 Adamski Adventurers placed it in Under Lock & Key California - 164.58 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/8/2006 Adamski Adventurers retrieved it from Got Bugs? II California   Visit Log

Made a special trip to swap for this one! We'll take this up to Tahoe and leave it somewhere near the rails in Historic Truckee!
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