GaryM53
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Last night I met the inventor of K.I.T.T. and he gave me some special gimmicks and gadgets to instal in my Hummer (#19).
I would rather bet I'll win the race.
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Hummer Racer Geocoin Yanagi's Hummer Racer Geocoin #8
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GaryM53
Released:
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
Origin:
Texas, United States
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This Blue Hummer is one of (38) cars in a world wide cross country race. This race will end the last day of November 2015 and the Hummer with the most miles, most geocachers logged or most caches placed in will win prizes. [ Note: Visiting or dipping in caches not allowed] Please keep this traveler moving by placing it in active caches.
If you want to help in the race, post a picture of the racer you moved and the driver will receive an additional (25) miles. The names of the Geocachers that posted a picture with the winning cars will be placed in a hat and the lucky winner will be rewarded with a Geocaching related prize!
smiley Blue Hummer Racer #8
About This Item
Blue Hummer Racer 2015
The photo below of is a picture of a Blue Hummer Geocoin that was awarded to the first (25) drivers in the race. The Hot Wheels Racer represents the drivers Geocoin and you will receive the coins icon when the tracking number is logged. Cars numbered (26) through (38) are travel bug tags.
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TIME TO GET THE HUMMERS ON THE TRAIN CARS FOR SHIPPING!
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Received this wonderful Owl Geocoin as a gift in the mail today "Strombus Personal Edition" Thank you so much!
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Travel Tags have been completed and (28) Racers received numbers today (10) to go!
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The pace car is going over the rules with the racers! The racers are wondering witch side of the road they drive on???
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I am on the trade list. Ours has Blue glitter but only portions of the coin are colored. I tried to match some of my other GaryM53 editions I did with Van Stofflene
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It is time to start activating the Blue Hummers. The GaryM53's test Hummer has been activated and has an interesting note about additional miles! TB41JTJ Type in the TB # and get a sneak peek.
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This is the new remodeled TB Train Station (the one on the right)the Hummers will be leaving from! The rest of this week will be spent organizing the Hummers and Hot Wheels for their journey. The small Cache was the original Train Station built in 2007. Once I have a chance to review my address book I will send out e-mails for the addresses I don't have. This will take a few days.
Have a Great Evening,
GaryM53
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I need to find the right track so I can deliver the Blue Hummers to the right location. Can someone tell me the right track to take?
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"https://d1u1p2xjjiahg3.cloudfront.net/7da6bc6e-fcc2-4524-b8d4-76cc7b9b3ae8_l.jpg" /> A couple of years ago a sponsered the "Travel Express Train Race " around the world with (76) Travel Express geocoins. The coins were sent all over the world to start the race and the top winners received a total of (28) prizes. The prizes were a mixture of GaryM53 Edition Geocoins, Travel Express Geocoins and many other items. The race ran for one year and at the end of the race I adopted all the race Geocoins over to the person that was in the race. That way they could change the mission and have the coin travel to them. I don't know if anyone ever received the race coin but I do see them moved once and a while. I think its time for another race. This race will consist of (25) Blue Hummer Geocoins racing all over the world. If anyone is interested please e-mail me and I will place your name in a hat and draw out (25) names. If your name is picked you will receive someones coin by rail and will start the race from your home area. I run the Travel Bug Train Station (GC15XZ1) in Abilene, Texas and your coins will arrive via the Travel Express Train. All names need to be sent to me by March 15th Midnight Texas Time. I will post the rules after the drawing. There is no cost to you of any kind to be in this race. GaryM53
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The racers are starting to show up!
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The drawing is over and the drivers of the "Blue Hummer Geocoins" have been chosen! I did not continue to draw names for a cheering section because,??????? oh crap, I forgot what I was going to type. Oh, now I remember. The last race I sponsored with the train Geocoins went well for some but others had their trains run clean off the tracks never to be found! It's a funny thing when we place Geocoins in a cache they always seem to come up missing, while travel bugs seem to travel a lot faster and last longer. So I decided to try something a little different! I had a long talk with my assistant train conductor " Daffy Duck" and asked him to go around the US and see if he could find a few more Blue Hummer Geocoins. Daffy never listens to me and seldom pays attention. He went out and found (40 ) Blue Hummer "Hot Wheels". When I asked him why he did that he explained to me the "Hot Wheels" will travel more miles than the Blue Hummer Geocoins.I had to agree after the trouble we went through with the Travel Express Geocoins. I then asked him "what should I do with the (25) Blue Hummer Geocoins" He told me to read my last post, the part about giving the drivers a prize, and give the coins to them to keep. What a great idea! I can give them the coins and place the tracking number on them on the Hot Wheels! The next thing we decided to do is give everyone else a Hot Wheels car and a special tracking number so they can also drive in the race. Daffy also told me to be sure and send a prize to these drivers also. So with all this long winded e-mail it's time to post the winners. The first (25) names are in the order the were drawn, the remaining are in the order they were on my tracking sheet.
No. Geocacache Name
1 Lady Bee 4T
2 usyoopers
3 Bojta
4 sweetlife -V
5 moozer
6 Love Cachers - Jay
7 Penquin
8 Yanagi
9 New Market Mallers
10 JoenSue
11 Six Litle Spookies
12 brokev7
13 geominions
14 KD8ATF
15 speakers_corners
16 Bartians
17 Team Red-One
18 TrinIzzyCar
19 Ingwaz
20 Intrepid Dyad
21 Pingos
22 Strombus
23 Team Eccs 21
24 navadanick
25 steben6
26 ramgab
27 taska
28 Fuzzie Bear3
29 Amigos
30 Darlene 4th
31 ice13-333
32 Love Cachers -Joyce
33 Maine Family
34 Krazy_Kajun
35 Dofferson
36 frothingham
37 sweetlife-B
38 Getzie family
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Blue Hummers trying to figure out which way to go! Drawing Names Tomorrow.
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The Blue Hummer Geocoin Race Info
Name of Race -“The 2015 Blue Hummer” World Wide Cross Country Race
Sponsored by -- GaryM53 Conductor of “The Travel Bug Express” at the TB Train Station - GC15XZ1
Race Start Date --TBA
How many Blue Hummers in the Race? ------ (25)
Who will be the drivers in the Race? ----- The 25 Lucky names drawn March 18th
Who starts the Hummers at the beginning of the Race?--The 25 Lucky winners (we will call them the drivers)
Will the drivers start their own Hummer? -------NO------they will start someone else’s Hummer that they will receive at their home via the Travel Train Express.
How can we make this fun for everyone interested in being in the race? (Let me think a minute???????)
Will we need a cheering section? (I think that would be great!)
Who will be in the cheering section? (I think the people who were not drawn as a driver should be)
Who will they cheer for? (I think they should cheer for the Hummer in the order I draw them out of the hat - Example = the (26) name drawn will cheer for the #1 Hummer and so forth)
Can the cheering section win prizes along with the driver? (I think that would be great if they did!)
How will they know who to cheer for? (I will post a list)
Are there any rules? Yes keep reading
Rules
Rules, Prizes, Etc. coming a little later
I have to get back to work ----- to be continued-----------------------------------
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“The 2015 Blue Hummer Geocoin World Wide Cross Country Race”
This Race will consist of a few rules and guidelines that should make it fun for everyone that signed up. I think these new ideas will make it easier to manage and maintain. If anyone has a question about the guidelines feel free to contact me.
1. Twenty five names will be drawn from a hat and these twenty five names will be called the drivers in the race. The first name drawn will drive Hummer #1, second name drawn will drive #2 and so forth.
2. Once all twenty five names have been drawn I will continue to pull names until all the names have been pulled. These names will be assigned to a car in the order they were drawn. Example #26 will be assigned the #1 car, #27 will be assigned to the #2 car. We will call these people the cheering section. This gives everyone a chance to win prizes.
3. I will activate the (25) Geocoins and set up the mission and rules for the race. The drivers name will show up in the title. I will also list names of the cheering section. (I hope we have enough names to give everyone at least one person to cheer for them)
4. Once I have everything in order and ready to place on the “Travel Express Train” for delivery I will post that the Hummers have left the train station. I will also post a list of all the drivers and cheering section.
5. The drivers will receive a package with instructions. We will not start the race until all packages have been received. Drivers, please e-mail me when you receive your package.
6. The driver will be starting someone else’s Hummer. Example; a driver from Germany may be starting a Hummer from Canada. The driver has three days to place the racer in a cache in their area once the start date has been established.
7. The race will have (3) categories that Hummer can win!
• Most miles traveled ( visiting / dipping a Hummer in a cache will not count in the miles total)
• Most caches the Hummers were placed in and left to be retrieved by a different Geocacher. ( visiting / dipping a Hummer in a cache will not count in the cache total)
• Most Geocachers that moved the Hummer or discovered it. Discovering the racer will count in the total.
8. Each category will have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prize. Prizes will be something Geocaching related. Prizes will also be given to the cheering section if your car wins one of the three categories. I may decide to award a prize to all the drivers.
9. The race will run until the end of November 2015. That will give me time to send prizes out before Christmas.
10. I will try and update the progress once a month depending on how much time I have.
11. Additional guidelines may follow as I think of them; to be continued-------------------------------------------
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Bump ------ Entries end Sunday Midnight! I think this one will be a lot more exciting then the last one! I received one of the prizes today!
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Nice job. I would post ours but I haven't figured out how yet. I am also on the trade list. Ours has Blue glitter also but only portions of the coin are colored. I tried to match some of my other GaryM53 editions I did with Van Stofflene
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The Blue Hummer Geocoin Race Info
Name of Race -“The 2015 Blue Hummer” World Wide Cross Country Race
Sponsored by -- GaryM53 Conductor of “The Travel Bug Express” at the TB Train Station - GC15XZ1
Race Start Date --TBA
How many Blue Hummers in the Race? ------ (25)
Who will be the drivers in the Race? ----- The 25 Lucky names drawn March 18th
Who starts the Hummers at the beginning of the Race?--The 25 Lucky winners (we will call them the drivers)
Will the drivers start their own Hummer? -------NO------they will start someone else’s Hummer that they will receive at their home via the Travel Train Express.
How can we make this fun for everyone interested in being in the race? (Let me think a minute???????)
Will we need a cheering section? (I think that would be great!)
Who will be in the cheering section? (I think the people who were not drawn as a driver should be)
Who will they cheer for? (I think they should cheer for the Hummer in the order I draw them out of the hat - Example = the (26) name drawn will cheer for the #1 Hummer and so forth)
Can the cheering section win prizes along with the driver? (I think that would be great if they did!)
How will they know who to cheer for? (I will post a list)
Are there any rules? Yes keep reading
Rules
Rules, Prizes, Etc. coming a little later
I have to get back to work ----- to be continued-----------------------------------
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If this works it is the a Picture of the Blue Hummer Geocoin!
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Your welcome Your coin was sent yesterday before I went on a road trip to Kansas.
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Geo-name Miles Guessed Place
Team Eccs 326,659
Six Little Spookies 327,000
Mo Pirate 333,333
Steben 6 1st 358,000
Interpid Dyad 373,000
Pingos 451,000
Team Red-One 1st 454,567
Bartians 1st 500,000
Bartians 2nd 550,000 3rd
Team Red-One 2nd 552,000 2nd
New Market Mallers 555,555 1st
Total Miles "2015" 584,761
Lady Bee4T 627,321
Steben 2nd 662,250
Gerominions 845,668
I hope I did this right! If I missed someone let me know.
New Market Mallers (I need your mailing address please send via my profile address)
I have the other two addresses.
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At the end of the The Travel Express Geocoin Race there was a grand total of 326,659 Miles recorded. Some of the coins had a hard time getting out of the gate and others are still active today three years later. I have (3) Mardi Gras 2015 Abilene Geocoins to give away to the top three people that guess the closest to the total miles as of tonight! If you want to enter your guess e-mail me. The winners will be posted Monday March 9th, 2015.
I guess I should have posted the end time for guesses! I will close it at Noon Texas time. March 9th and post the winners after I get home Monday night.
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Nine entries so far. To make this more interesting everyone that has already entered a guess gets to try again. E-mail me and post 2nd guess. If its your first guess you can give me two. Below I will give a hint of how everyone is doing.Low = Lower Mid = mid range between high and low guess High = High end of guesses
Team Eccs 21 - Low
Bartians - Mid
Six Little Spookies - Low
pingos - Mid
mo pirate - Low
Geominions - High
Interpid Dtad - Low
steben 6 - Low
Team red-one- Mid
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I hope everyone understood my question. At the end of the race total miles was 326,659 I looked up every coin last night and total the miles that had been added since the end of the race. That was an additional 3 years of travel
Keep the numbers coming
Is it time for another Geocoin Race?
in Trackables
Posted · Edited by GaryM53
Great ideas but we have to keep everything on an even plain. Car #19 is heading for the Hummer hospital for a quick overhaul and check-up. The cars will remain under lock and key until they ship out. I found one car with the floor boards cut out! Fred Flintstone was in the back seat sleeping and when I woke him up he said the racer's owner wanted him to yaba-daba-doo the car along cache to cache.