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Oldest Travel Bug/ Longest Distance


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Did a check of our travelers.....

 

Most miles and still traveling is TB2QAF3. It was released 2/14/09, has logged 70,237.6 miles, it was last logged 7/31/19.

 

Longest still traveling would be TBZ5KY. It was released in July 2006, its last log was on 7/13/19.

 

However, most of our travelers are long gone......

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Hold your hats folks. My most traveled is TB is Starting Line, the end of the "starting line" stick from car rally. Released 2/29/12

TB48GKB as of today 2752919.5 Miles  This is an actual TB not a virtual. HQ says its in top 10, but haven't a good way to "scrub" virtual TB's from list.

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Over 2 million miles is outstanding. I know I have picked up a couple that had traveled around the world which was pretty cool to imagine some of the people who had that travel bug in there possession at one time.  I wish Ground Speak would let us add favorite points to travel bugs & trackable's like they do for geocaches. I think there would be some pretty amazing trackable's circulating through out the game if geocachers could get some sort of recognition for their work.

 

Aceey

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34 minutes ago, Aceey said:

 I wish Ground Speak would let us add favorite points to travel bugs & trackable's like they do for geocaches. I think there would be some pretty amazing trackable's circulating through out the game if geocachers could get some sort of recognition for their work.

 

We've seen enough fakers to realize it's already all about recognition.  Whenever stats are involved in any game, there's cheats.

I don't think these guys that hold on to another's property for years,  using it as their own private mileage tracker, should be "rewarded" for their nonsense.

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I was just looking to see if I could find the oldest or longest traveled bug. my Oak island Geohound was released in 2007 and has logged over 33,000 miles. He started on the US East coast (NC) and has been to Alaska and back to the US, totally coincidentally stopped a few hundred yards from my parents' house in PA, took a Baltic cruise, and is now boppong around Switzerland and Germany. I love getting updates :-)

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Thought I might resurrect this thread... Our travel bug, the lucky Irish hug hog, was released in Aug 2006 and had crossed the Atlantic for the first time today. It has covered 32,596.6 miles so far and is still rewarding us with photos from those that find him! It has racked up 1,449 log entries!

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I have a TB tattoo on my leg that has traveled 87,917 miles. My daughter has lived in Texas, California, Kansas, New York, and Boston. All of my miles are legit, I have traveled to everywhere she's lived multiple times, and cached in them all.

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Not as old as my previous example, but this TB was released in 2011, but then soon after went missing. Today, I found it, ten years since it was marked missing. I have found TBs that were missing for a few years, before, but this is a new record for me. It went missing in Canada. I found it in Australia, a long way away.

 

TB488XT

 

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MIA - New Zealand traveled 89,080.3 miles - 143, 360.8 km

February 3, 2012 to April 23, 2023: 11 years 2 months 20 days

This was my last active trackable

I now have 12 that are MIA :(

 

 

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Well Ned Lander started traveling in 2011, went MIA 3 times, resurrected again a few weeks ago and has now travelled over 235.000 km

Date

Action

Where

Remarks

28-11-2011

Released

Austria

Coming from my/his home country, the Netherlands, for a business trip to Vienna, Ned was released

24-12-2012

Lost

London

While visiting London with the family we found the destroyed cache where Ned should have been residing

23-12-2016

Found

New Zealand

A muggle handed Ned Lander over to a genuine geocacher somehow

20-12-2020

Lost

Australia

Went missing form the cache where he was in at that time

25-04-2022

Found

Australia

Geocacher who retrieved him had forgot to register. And came aware 2 years later luckily.

18-10-2023

Lost

Australia

Went missing form the cache where he was in at that time

14-20-2025

Found

Australia

Found 5 km away in another cache

 

Countries visited

 

Australia

Austria

New Zealand

China

United Kingdom

United States

Sweden

Norway

Denmark

Germany

Netherlands

Luxembourg

France

Poland

Czech Republic

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