+cqdx Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Prime Meridian Geocoin made it from Utah all the way to the monument that is on the coin! Prime Meridian Geocoin Mission Page Thanks Murfster!!! Quote Link to comment
+burgessfour Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 That's fantastic, congratulations!!! It gives me hope.... Quote Link to comment
+cqdx Posted September 17, 2008 Author Share Posted September 17, 2008 (edited) It took 2.5 years to get there - this is opposite of one of those times where you find out your geocoin has gone missing and most likely stolen Edited September 17, 2008 by cqdx Quote Link to comment
+luckycharmer Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 CONGRATULATIONS on having it survive 2.5 years and on reaching it's goal. What a fun accomplishment. Quote Link to comment
+fairyhoney Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 CONGRATULATIONS!!! Quote Link to comment
+hollora Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Very cool - congrats! Quote Link to comment
+backhiker Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Excellent It sure jumped all over the US before it crossed the water! Congrats. Quote Link to comment
+Eric K Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 What's even more amazing is it survived passing through so many people! Quote Link to comment
+Koolbrez Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Yeah. Great accomplishment! So what happens next? Quote Link to comment
+Eartha Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Yeah. Great accomplishment! So what happens next? Keep going all the way around and get there again? Congratulations on the succesful trip! Quote Link to comment
+DaFunkyFrogs Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 congrats on a great coin mission.... Quote Link to comment
+cqdx Posted September 18, 2008 Author Share Posted September 18, 2008 I am tempted to let the cachers who took it there keep it if they want to, if they don't want to I may change the mission to get back to me in Salt Lake City, if it made that trek back, that would be even more impressive. Quote Link to comment
+Geo-Gophers Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 WOW! That did brilliantly.........congrats!! Ali Quote Link to comment
+nashuan Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 It's great to heat a story about success rather than one about how the coin turned up missing. I just got one coin to complete its mission about a week ago. It started in Florida about five years ago and wanted to travel to a specific cache in New Hampshire. Even though it was about an hour out of my way, how could I not give it that final little push to get it across the finish line? Unfortunately, the owner doesn't seem to have been active since 2003. Maybe news of his/her little wanderer making it's mission will perk their interest a bit. Quote Link to comment
+Fiery Searcher Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 I am wondering if we can/should make this a "general" thread for successful geocoin stories? There is one for TBs, so perhaps we can break up the sad monotony of stolen geocoin stories with some success stories? I have one. With the help of my husband (who lives in Texas), we helped this geocoin fulfill its mission: TB1H649 It took approximately one year, and apparently the destination for this coin is very near our home in Texas! Who knew?! I have moved a few coins and TBs since beginning this fabulous geocaching game, but have just been one of many players. It is quite the feeling of satisfaction to have helped a traveller safely reach its desired destination. Now I'm going to calculate the average mileage of my travelling geocoins before they went missing. Quote Link to comment
+ECplus3 Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 I too have had one of my coins complete its mission. TB22VKR This coin travelled from Nova Scotia Canada to its destination in New Zealand (to pay a visit with Butterfly_lady) in just 8 hops. It is now on its way back home and has already come as far as California! Quote Link to comment
+nefesh Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Yes, let's please start a thread about the current or completed geocoin missions. We hear so much about the coins missing/stolen. I have a coin coming home from Norway (it started there) but visiting some very North locations first. EC3, it's headed for Nova Scotia. Keep a lookout Quote Link to comment
+Fiery Searcher Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Visiting a few of the travellers from my recent past and I found one that fulfilled its mission: TB123Z5 Not my geocoin, but I did have a hand in its movements over the summer. It is always nice to see that some travellers DO fulfill their missions, as it gives the rest of us hope for our travellers. Quote Link to comment
+nefesh Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I have a traveler who's Mission is a cache on Long Island. That's EAST from California. What's funny is, it's been moved several times over the last few months, but only NORTH AND SOUTH. It just passed me again (no. CA) headed to the southern part of the state At least it's still moving! Quote Link to comment
+Fiery Searcher Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 This coin - TB222WV - was part of the "Pay It Forward" adoption mission, and it arrived to it's new owner in just over three months! Another success story for geocoins out in the wild. Makes me want to release a few more... It's been a while since this thread made it to the front page. Are there any other success stories from other cachers? Quote Link to comment
+Six Little Spookies Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 I had a 3 Sparks Butterfly (TB1VJF5, sorry don't know how to make it do a hyperlink on my iPhone) that traveled 20,000+ miles from New Zealand to Florida in 20 months. It was part of a coin traveling mission started in the forums a few years ago. Quote Link to comment
+DocWahala Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Wow - this is the second coin I've read about here for finishing it's mission. The first was for one of the missions. It's great to see it happen, especially after 2.5 years of travelling and getting caught out in the weather. I am wondering if having a more specific mission increases the chances of it staying in the game. Can't say one way or the other. But one thing I am pretty sure of - there have to be more than two stories about successful missions. What if there was a permanent thread for capturing these stories? Maybe something which would be pinned. There is a pinned thread for trades - which is fine, but is trading coins the only reason the coins exist? More should be done to celebrate success and even promote keeping the coins in the caches. Anyone have any thoughts on this? DocWahala Quote Link to comment
+jmw61 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Awesome. I'd let 'em keep it too. Quote Link to comment
+Fiery Searcher Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 But one thing I am pretty sure of - there have to be more than two stories about successful missions. What if there was a permanent thread for capturing these stories? Maybe something which would be pinned. There is a pinned thread for trades - which is fine, but is trading coins the only reason the coins exist? More should be done to celebrate success and even promote keeping the coins in the caches. Anyone have any thoughts on this? DocWahala Doc, See my post earlier in this thread - #15! I suggested it in 2009, so it's about time someone revamped it! Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 (edited) Here's another success story: MrsB's Cornish geocoin - Destination Cornwall, UK was released into a cache in Australia in March 2007 and completed its mission by getting back home to a cache in Cornwall (SW England) in November 2008. Since then it's been happily wandering around the UK... until recently. At the moment I'm not confident it is where it's showing... I'm not quite sure where it is. MrsB Edited to add: This is another Cornish geocoin that completed its mission: Cornwall 2008 geocoin It was a mission from this forum from a couple of years ago - It was "Activate a new geocoin, adopt it over to the new owner and let it travel to them". I was pleased to see it got to the owner's cache in Denmark, but it looks like he hasn't actually been to collect it yet. Edited February 23, 2011 by The Blorenges Quote Link to comment
+LewisClan77 Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 I picked up one of my coins today that has been traveling almost 2 1/2 years and just undr 10,000 miles. It didn't meet its goal, but it did have a nice run. I figured I would go grab it because I might not have gotten another chance. Hippybus Quote Link to comment
+DocWahala Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Doc, See my post earlier in this thread - #15! I suggested it in 2009, so it's about time someone revamped it! True! But now it is 2011 - and still no pinned thread? Perhaps TPTB feel the Forum should only be used to describe new coins being designed, or listing Trade requests. As for trying to promote actually using a tracking coin AS a tracking coin..... maybe there is no interest? Quote Link to comment
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