Bear-Fuzzy Wuzzy Green TB

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 30-Jun-24 this trackable had survived for 5.1 years and had been moved by 14 cachers, for an average drop every 134 days, or 2.7 drops per year. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it at an event, in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban, non-premium cache. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This “Bear” series of travel bugs are each named for fictional bears of children’s literature, comic books, cartoons, mythology and animated shorts or features.  or for kinds of bears from around the world

The term "Fuzzy Wuzzy" originated in the 1800s.  British Soldiers gave the nickname, "fuzzy wuzzy" to the Hadendoa warriors that were a nomadic tribe along the Red Sea in Sudan.  The Hadendoa were a formidable fighting force that gained the respect of the better trained British forces.  The Hadendoa warriors wore their hair matted which gave a "fuzzy" appearance.  The British were eventually victorious over the Fuzzy Wuzzies but with a greater fight than other enemies.  Rudyard Kippling wrote a poem praising the Hadendoa warriors for their fighting skills.

Today Fuzzy Wuzzy is known more as the nursery rhyme many of us learned as children.  There are many variations of this poem.  The one I learned was: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?