Long Journey Home

[+whereissit]

Here is a great article in The Jamestown Sun on the life of a travel bug. The article tells the story on Barb Sand, who placed a travel bug in a geocache in California back in 2004. In 2007, Sand's travel bug came back to South Dakota and North Dakota, but not back to her hometown of Jamestown, ND. Sand wanted to see the travel bug return to North Dakota and pick up a souvenir at each stop along the way. According to the article the travelbug is now several times its original size and has traveled over 7400 miles. Four years later the travelbug returned home to the Frontier Village Cache. The cache was hidden by Sand and has logged nearly 200 visits. Edited June 16, 2008 by whereissit

[Keystone]

Great story! So that it receives more attention, I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the Travel Bug forum.

[+meralgia]

I deployed three travel bugs (on August 15, 2007) that wanted to go 1) to Florida's Gulf Coast, 2) the Pacific, and 3) the Atlantic. All of them wanted to take on a little water and sand and then come back to Minneapolis. It seemed like an easy request, but they became rather large bugs with their respective vials.

 

1) Freddy, the Florida Fish wanted to go to Gulf on Mexico off the Florida Coast. He got detoured to New Mexico but is a little more on track now in Virginia and may actually make it south this time!

 

2) Rusty Rudder wanted to go to Atlantic Ocean off the boardwalk at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He has travelled more successfully toward his destination but went further south to Tennessee. I don't think he'll find the ocean down there!

 

3) Sandy Andy wanted to take a dip in the Pacific Ocean off of the San Diego, California coast. He's still stuck in Wisconsin.

 

Lessons learned: 1) Don't expect TBs to travel exactly toward their destinations right away. 2) Relax and enjoy the sightseeing they're doing along with them. 3) Don't send such a bulky item next time--they only seem to be traded at events because there aren't as many "regulars" and "larges" as compared to micros and smalls!

Edited June 16, 2008 by meralgia

[+hukilaulau]

Great story! I like reading about the travels of old TB's. BTW, here is the actual link to the story. The link in the first post just gets you the front page of the online newspaper...

[+Harry Dolphin]

Wannabe Bird

My TB, Wannabe Bird, wants to travel the world! After three and a half years wandering about the US, he finally made to to Europe! He's travelled 17847 miles! The next finder brought him back to the US. You cannot always count on a TB finder to help your TB.