It's Not An Anorak, It's A Travel Bug Race

[+2202]

Remember It's Not An Anorak, It's A Travel Bug Race, that started just over two years ago, well its been won for some time now......dirty dealings if you ask me..... but hows your TB doing.

Mine has now clocked up 20,000+ miles and is currently residing near Helsinki, but the other 25 left in the race, I've no idea. Please pray tell.

[+Globetrotter.uk]

My Genius in a bottle TBJJV5 has clocked up 19886.3mi and is currently near someones junk pile. I am trying to get it moving.

[+Sensei TSKC]

Windy Miller is NW of Manchester having clocked up 12485 miles apparently in a cache called Cats & Dogs.

[+Simply Paul]

My Pink Thing was eaten by a fat American while at a cache event there. It's the only possible explanation.

[+Trucker Lee]

My Pink Thing was eaten by a fat American while at a cache event there. It's the only possible explanation.

 

I hope it gave him/her really bad indigestion, and a good case of trots

[+milvus-milvus]

Ours made great progress - joint leader at one stage I think (before Mr Humphrey took it on a round tour of Spain and the Isle of Man) - but then got eaten 20 miles from the finish line...

 

And of course the race page is still active - but I suppose you couldn't be bothered to click on all the links Tony!

Edited May 10, 2007 by milvus-milvus

[+2202]

And of course the race page is still active - but I suppose you couldn't be bothered to click on all the links Tony!

 

Yes, too much like hard work!

[+Simply Paul]

There used to be a version of that page with where the TB is now, and how far it'd gone, and if it'd visited another country, and its target cache - before getting to the final cache. Anyone know where it's gone?

[+milvus-milvus]

That's the same link Paul - I think the original page scraped the data from Groundspeak somehow [], so perhaps was retired at the end of the race?

[+Simply Paul]

Nope, it was still like that long after Jon's TB got to the final cache. I guess it got edited to simplify it. Oh well.

[markandlynn]

Tracking History (11027.9mi)

Heerlijkheid in de Kasteeltuin

by TheFamily [profile]

 

N 51° 55.995 E 005° 41.838

UTM: 31U E 685430 N 5757051

E 349.4mi from your home coordinates or convert to NAD27 at Jeeep.com

 

In Netherlands

[NickPick]

My Bond Bug-gery finished in (I think) second place (although it may have been third). It's currently sitting in the finish cache waiting for me to collect it and give it a new mission.

[+third-degree-witch]

Dirty dealings ? manipulation maybe by a certain someone..but with no assistance from me...just for the record 2202

[+aRRKS]

Ours got back into Europe but then disappeared in Germany after 10744.3 miles

[+2202]

Dirty dealings ? manipulation maybe by a certain someone..but with no assistance from me...just for the record 2202

Dirty dealings....manipulation, same thing...so the rumours were true then!

Edited May 11, 2007 by 2202

[+Happy Humphrey]

Dirty dealings....manipulation, same thing...so the rumours were true then!

Witchcraft?

[+The Southseakers]

Our TB Anoraknophobia made it back to the target Cache in October having spent some time bouncing between the coasts of the US and covering an astounding 23320.3 miles, which is only just short of enough distance to get it all the way back again!

 

We were in second place for a while on distance travelled alone, but I'm not sure of our final placing.

 

The TB is currently in its target cache waiting for me to give it a new mission.

 

How about a race back again?