This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

The Gothic History Tour (Dracula) is a Travel Bug Dog Tag Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

Trackable Item 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:

This cute little Vampire, named Lestat, would like to visit some Vampiric locations on the way to his Primary & Secondry Missions to meet some of his friends and learn their history on the way...can you help a little creature of the night on his travels?

Primary Mission: To reach the 12th Century Sighisoara Citadel in the historic town of the same name in Transylvania, Romania. This is the birthplace of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, or more infamously known as, Vlad the Impaler, or Dracula. Whilst in the same country, a visit to Bran Castle, situated near Bran and in the immediate vicinity of Brasov. This is the setting apparently in Bram Stokers book Dracula, although there is no proof the author actually visited this location. It is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia.

Secondry Mission: To reach Whitby in North Yorkshire, England on his return back home from visiting his relatives birthplace in Romania. Being as part of Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula was set in Whitby, and incorporated various pieces of Whitby folklore, including the beaching of the Russian ship Dmitri, which became the basis of Demeter in the book. Furthermore, it was at the original public library on Marine Parade in Whitby that Stoker discovered the name "Dracula." A fitting way to arrive back in Blighty me thinks!

It would be great if this spooky trackable could visit as many locations that have some Vampire folklore related to them as possible prior to reaching the two main ones, also photo's would be much appreciated to document his travels and the places he has seen.

Remember, he is a Vampire so try to keep him out of the Sun! Also if you pick him up at night keep some garlic handy just in case he tries to bite!

I hope to make this a fun and historic, if a little scary, mission for you all.