Travel Bug Dog Tag On the Mend From a Broken Heart

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Hi, I am sure you have heard of me, so I don’t need to introduce myself. As you might have heard in the media,I have recently ended a 40+ year relationship my longtime boyfriend. Kenny and I tried to hold things together, but in the end, we both just knew our relationship was no more than a shell of what it once was.

So now that I am on my own and free for the first time since, oh, the 1960s, I have decided to travel. While I have done just about everything an independent and free-thinking single girl can do, there are still some sights in our beautiful country I have not yet seen. Each of the 50 states (and DC) has one sight or activity I have not yet seen or done, and today I am embarking on a quest to visit each state and do those things. If you can help me on my journey, please take me with you to one of my destinations, take my picture, log my journey (including my photo) at geocaching.com, and send me on my way.

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I come complete with a list of my 51 adventures, one for each state and DC. If you decide to help me on my journey, please check off what I have accomplished so I don't inadvertently go to the same place twice! Also, if you wish to contribute to my wardrobe (I am dressed for California, my home), feel to put new clothes in my bag so I am always properly dressed.

Note on January 8, 2007: I've several requests to include the list of destinations, but couldn't find it (several computers ago)...but yay! I found it today. I am adding it to the cache page for y'all, and thanks for keeping Babs going!

My 51 goals are (please check off each one as I achieve it!):

q Hawaii: to go scuba diving
q Alaska: to see a glacier, any glacier
q Washington: to see fish throwing at the Pike Street Market in Seattle
q Oregon: to visit Fort Clatsop
q California: to look across to San Francisco from the Campanile at UC Berkeley
q Idaho: to hike Craters of the Moon
q Nevada: the Oats monument in Fallon
q Montana: to see a dinosaur fossil
q Utah: to stand on four corners
q Arizona: to ride a mule into the Grand Canyon (and back out, of course)
q Wyoming: to hike a section of the Continental Divide trail
q Colorado: to visit Aspen, where I might see some of my old celebrity friends
q New Mexico: to see the bats come out of Carlsbad Caverns
q North Dakota: to stand at the International Peace Border with Canada
q South Dakota: To visit the Badlands
q Nebraska: to see Chimney Rock
q Kansas: to walk through a corn field
q Oklahoma: to visit the site of the Oklahoma City bombing
q Texas: Alabama-Coushatta Reservation
q Minnesota: to spend the night at a cabin on a lake, any lake
q Iowa: to tour the Abbie Gardner State Historic Site
q Missouri: to visit any event that celebrates the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark expedition
q Arkansas: to visit the hot springs
q Louisana: to go on a swamp tour and throw marshmallows to alligators
q Wisconsin: to visit a cheese factory
q Illinois: to ride the EL in Chicago
q Alabama: to visit a Civil War battlefield (any one)
q Michigan: to visit Ah-Nab-Awen Park
q Indiana: to go the Indy 500
q Kentucky: to bet on a longshot at the Kentucky Derby
q Tennessee: to hike into Cades Cove
q Alabama: to see the Birmingham Jail of civil rights fame
q Ohio: to see the Kent State University memorial
q New York: Times Square on New Year’s Eve
q Pennsylvania: Liberty Bell
q West Virginia: Harpers Ferry National Historic Park
q Virginia: visit Monticello
q Maine: eat a lobster dinner in a quaint little New England restaurant
q New Hampshire: see the fall foliage
q Vermont: go through a covered bridge in a horse-drawn wagon
q Massachusetts: climb to the top of the Bunker Hill National Monument
q Rhode Island: to take a walk down Benefit Street
q Connecticut: to visit a lighthouse
q New Jersey: Washington’s Headquarters at Morristown National Historical Park
q Maryland: visit Fort McHenry
q Delaware: visit the Delaware Archeology Museum in Dover
q DC: walk from the capitol to the Washington monument
q North Carolina: to take a ferry to the Outer Banks
q South Carolina: to enjoy the Native Islander Gullah Celebration on Hilton Head
q Georgia: to visit Morehouse college in Atlanta
q Florida: sunbathe on South Beach

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Mark Missing 6/2/2014 seldom|seen marked it as missing   Visit Log

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Write note 6/17/2012 Leo Lovers posted a note for it   Visit Log

This TB is missing from Postmarked/ Return to Sender. Maybe someone took it and didn't log it yet??
Write note 7/8/2010 seldom|seen posted a note for it   Visit Log

Incredibly saddened by the disappearance of this TB so soon after my own rescue and revitalization effort. While it was well hidden, I certainly did not expect this TB to sit very long given it's uniqueness and history of being lost for 3 years. Now, it appears to have been muggled and I can't understand why a couple of the most recent discoveries did not at the very least, move it along. How sad... And yet another TB to replace, as I live by the credo of replacing anything that goes missing under my watch.
Write note 7/5/2010 seldom|seen posted a note for it   Visit Log

Having spent so many years on the Mend, I thought this one would move soon after discovery, after all, it doesn't have to fit "INTO" a cache, just be placed near it. Decided to grab it again tonight but amazingly there where copious muggles about and sitting on top of GZ so I had to walk away. I will try again this week.
Discovered It 4/28/2010 huffinpuffin2 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered but did not take, as we'd no on-the-spot plans to assure we could help you along on your mission. Happy travels!
Discovered It 4/25/2010 geolivestrong discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered while caching in Appleton, WI.
Write note 4/24/2010 labrat_wr posted a note for it   Visit Log

Spotted it while looking for Postmarked: Returned to Sender
didn't get the tracking number so I guess I can only post a note
Discovered It 4/24/2010 isjustus4 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered this one while searching for a cache. Actually thought it was the cache at first glance. Good to see it's back in circulation after sitting for such a long time.
Dropped Off 4/22/2010 seldom|seen placed it in Postmarked | Returned to Sender Wisconsin - 1.81 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 4/22/2010 seldom|seen grabbed it   Visit Log

I'm having trouble figuring out how this TB got from Drainage Pond to where I found it today, only because I was scouting for places to place a new cache. Incredible that it has been sitting in this spot for neigh 3 years without discovery. When I opened the cache, the contents were more than a bit whiffy, but I am in the process of cleaning and salvaging what I can before releasing it again tomorrow for the CITO event in the park on Saturday where another cache, far more tragic that this one, is in the process of being placed. I hope your heart is well mended and I can't wait to see how you have progressed in the 3 years this cache has been delinquent. Good things happen when you give a little back to the community.
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