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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Write note 5/10/2006 Liefy posted a note for it   Visit Log

Sorry I have this TB too long. I am trying to road trip with a friend to Aspen to release her. Will let her go really soo.

  • Hunting outfit She got a gun from the local Colorado National Guard. She is ready to do some hunting and if you break her heart she will break you.
  • Bugs just hanging out Group of bugs that all met up at my house to party before they travel off into the sunset.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 2/27/2006 Liefy grabbed it   Visit Log

Grabbing it back from Icewind-Z. Me and Icewind-Z are going to take Barbie to Aspen to see the stars.
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 2/12/2006 Icewind-Z grabbed it   Visit Log

Icewind steals from Liefy... and gives it back.
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/12/2006 Liefy retrieved it from Z's Movin' to Cajun Country Cache N' Bash Colorado   Visit Log

Great TB. Saw it at fun geocaching going away party. Taking it to Aspen when I go with my friend to visit his parents.

Since Barbie had the cammo what better than to go hunting. She has a larger gun i her hand and a smaller gun in her blaze orange purse. Ready to hit the mountains of Aspen and go deer, elk, turkey, etc. hunting.

[This entry was edited by Liefy on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 9:36:15 AM.]
Dropped Off 1/19/2006 ZSandmann placed it in Z's Movin' to Cajun Country Cache N' Bash Colorado - 1,075.35 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/2/2006 ZSandmann retrieved it from Did you hear that? Alabama   Visit Log

Picked up this Goth Barbie hanging out in the woods on a warm Alabama winter's night. not sure what she was into over there. I am gonna take her back up toards Colorado, maybe she can make it to Aspen.

Z

  • So we brought Barbie to Colorado. We gave her some new hand made duds, very nice if I might say so myself. She is now also equipped with shooting glasses and a hunter orange purse to accessorize. She will be seeing more of the state after we send her to an event cache.

Z
Dropped Off 12/23/2005 varanid placed it in Did you hear that? Alabama - 42.59 miles  Visit Log

Had fun with Barbie... meant to bring her to the Birmingham city jail and a civil war battle site but alas I never got around to it... figured it was time for someone else to have some fun with barbie... She has been a little depressed lately and is getting into some weird things... I believe she is going Goth.. She demanded that I drop her off in the spookiest cemetery I could find so I obeyed... and believe me it is eerie... not to mention that the only way to do this one is in the dead of night.. Hopefully she will not be there too terribly long before someone gets her to less depressing surroundings
Write note 8/6/2005 varanid posted a note for it   Visit Log

Barbie had a great time at Cades Cove hiking. Unfortunately due to a camera malfunction (ie dead batteries :( ) was unable to get any photos. Will be going to Birmingham city jail and civil war battleground in the next week then setting her free again to travel somewhere towards Georgia line. Thanks a lot for putting cades cove on the list. We had never heard of the place before we picked up the bug. And then it turned out to be the highlight of our trip to Gatlinburg :). Thanks again. Sorry to hold the bug for so long but at least she will be getting 3 goals accomplished :)
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/19/2005 varanid retrieved it from 79 Relay Alabama   Visit Log

Retrieved her. We will be visiting the birmingham city jail. Then time permitting the civil war battlefield. If we accomplish both of these goals she will be accompanying us either to georgia or gatlinburg, TN. If I do not accomplish the civil war battlefield will drop her off elsewhere in Alabama. We will be leaving august 1 heading to gatlinburg so she will be hanging with us till then unless you would like otherwise. My wife gave her some more stuff. A suitcase, a new shirt, angel teddy bear, and a purse. She also changed her clothes because of the alabama heat. She is now in shorts and halter top. You will see them shortly when we take pictures of her visit to birmingham jail.

Dropped Off 5/11/2005 PawPawcache placed it in 79 Relay Alabama - 11.28 miles  Visit Log
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