This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

"Alley-Oop" is a Travel Bug Dog Tag Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

If you do not intend to log your visit on the Geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE THIS ITEM. Its travels and its progress requires you to log that it is being taken from this geocache. You will also need to log when you place it in another geocache. It's easy!

If you are willing to log your part of this Trackable's journey and place it in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), grab it from this geocache.

My Current Goal:

HELLO.  MY NAME IS "ALLEY-OOP".

"My mission is to travel to Australia and back home again".

This bug is a product of my Dad's ingenuity.  My Dad passed away in March of 2014 and was a man who invented many products for the motorcycle manufacturing industry.   He was 85.  One of the products was a spark plug and wrench holder, that attached to the frame of the dirt or street bike.  (I remember mass producing these, back in the 70's!) The pototype spark plug holder has BN Supply on the head because that was my Dads' brother's (Bill Nugent) business.  After they were molded by BN Supply, they were brought back to the shop where we would stamp Dad's name on them, bore them out for the plugs and bolt, and finish assembling the product.   His business was called Modesett Engineering and Manufacturing and was based in Southern California.  There were many times I used this product, stuck out in the middle of the desert!!  Dad was given the nickname "Alley-Oop" early in his life and it just stuck with him.

The only thing on my Dad's bucket list that was not accomplished before his death, was to travel to Australia.  I have infused some of my Dad's ashes inside the unit and welded it shut.  It is impossible to take the plugs out, so please don't try to;  they will be no use to you.  The unit is TOTALLY AND PERMANENTLY SEALED!

"Send me off to Australia and bring me back home again, so I can tell all the stories to my family"...Norman Lee Modesett