Unlikely coincidences

[+mumbo jumbo]

I was just scanning my list of TBs when I noticed that two of my TBs are just 2.4 miles apart in Holland at the moment. One was released in France in July 06 (1031 miles) and the other in Birmingham in Jan 07 (6885 miles). They have comepletely different objectives which don't involve meeting each other - but there they are, practically next door neighbours! It would be dead cool if they actually spent some time in the same cache together but that is probably too much to ask.

 

Anyone else had something similar?

 

MJ

[+Bill D (wwh)]

mumbo jumbo wrote:

It would be dead cool if they actually spent some time in the same cache together but that is probably too much to ask.

You could always post notes on the cache pages requesting that. Just a thought...

[Izzy and the Lizard King]

You could always post notes on the cache pages requesting that. Just a thought...

That would be cheating though, wouldn't it?

 

It would be so much better if they could meet without outside influence.

 

P

[+SidAndBob]

We released this coin into Defence of the Realm 2 in North Devon. After travelling about 150 miles east after just a few caches it ended up back in the same cache. I contacted the people who placed it assuming they'd done it intentionally, but it was just a strange coincidence.

 

P.S. Not such a strange coincidence, but most of my geocoins seem to sit in someones pocket for months at a time. You've just prompted be to prod a couple of people.

[+Just Roger]

I picked up This TB about 10 miles from home and 2 weeks later dropped it 12000 miles away. Two months later, when I got back, I had a look to see how it was getting on, only to find that, in true feline style, it had found its way back before I did and was now only about 30 miles from my home

[+Stuey]

Two of my bugs are in a mileage race between each other, and when I saw that they were within 100 miles of each other (in California) I changed their missions temporarily to meet in the same cache. This hasn't happened, but they are both still in California at least.

[+HazelS]

I think, if I remember correctly, that Pengy and Tigger visited a TB hotel in California, and when they got there and opened the box, one of their TB's was in it!!

 

That, to me, has to beat everything!!

[+Haggis Hunter]

It's now gone missing, but my TB Recon Ron got picked up by kewfriend and brought back to Edinburgh, it then got taken to New Zealand from there to the U.S. then back to the UK to be picked up again by kewfriend.

[+Guanajuato]

Two of my 3 TBs have travelled completely separately to the other side of the Atlantic and are (or have been until recently) within 100 miles of each other, but still in different countries. one of them is supposed to be travelling around this country! Both of them seem well & truly stuck - one in a TB hotel - been there since September and plenty of people have logged him as seen, just no-one is picking the poor thing up! The other is in the hands of a cacher and has been since June...

 

Norman and Eddie

[+Trucker Lee]

I've got two little stuffed bears (twins) that were launched from the same cache to race into a cache within 50 miles of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and return. Both went west, one to Oregon the other to Bora Bora. Both then went east and ended up in Mississippi, where after sitting a bit were picked up and reunited by the same cacher who took them to a cache near the Atlantic Ocean. Said cacher then took both to an event and handed them to another cacher who placed them near Houston TX in separate caches. They remain within 75 miles of each other, and less than 200 miles to the goal, the cache they launched from.

 

TB15B93

TB14MB3

 

edit for grammer, blasted Yanks like me struggle with the Queen's English (lol)

Edited February 11, 2008 by Trucker Lee

[+Firth of Forth]

My son had a TB that appeared in a cache in Perth, Australia just a few weeks before we were due to go there. I asked for it to remain in the cache until we got there, but someone picked it up just before we visited and took the TB to South Africa to place it in a cache....which was promptly muggled and the TB gone forever.

[+Happy Humphrey]

It's now gone missing, but my TB Recon Ron got picked up by kewfriend and brought back to Edinburgh, it then got taken to New Zealand from there to the U.S. then back to the UK to be picked up again by kewfriend.

The story continued from there: I picked up Recon Ron in the south of France where Kewfriend left him, and after a brief holiday on the Isle of Man I dropped him off back in California, where he'd been earlier in the same year.

What a shame he's lost after over 44000 miles.

[+Happy Humphrey]

Manx Mission was released in 2004 to celebrate the first Manx geocaching event, and within three months had travelled to Canada, then all the way back to the Isle of Man. It's still on the road, with nearly 27000 miles clocked up.

[+gazooks]

Last June I went caching in the Peak District (I'm from Cambridge) and dropped off a TB. A month later I went to see my Daughter graduate at Stafford Uni (Stoke) and took the opportunity to do a few caches and came across the same TB.

 

spooky

 

[+Bambography]

My 'Homeward Bound' TB that is racing home from Italy. Following its first move from Italy into Germany it has been in a large circle and back into exactly the same cache in Germany after about 6 months travel.

[+Alibags]

At the first Christmas event I organised in 2004, I picked up Ozzy Goes Home and Beyond. Twelve months later, at my Christmas event 2005, I picked up exactly the same TB and had my second attempt at heading it in the right direction!

[+Dark_Faerie]

Whilst walking the daog I went to 'rescue' a coin that had been in a local cache for a while (since October), found an identical but different one. The second one had only been placed this morning! First one seems to be missing.

 

"Noticed the icon for this coin whilst browsing. Wrongly assumed it was the same Finland geocoin I placed there in October. Realised it was a different one when I came to log it. What are the chances of 2 identical coins visiting the same cache in such a short space of time?! Will move along soon."