New Fun Item I Discovered

[+Preesi]

What are Gnomads?

 

They’re adventurous pocket-sized gnomes who love to travel. Once upon a time they were happy to hang around your garden or front lawn, but now they want to see the world and it’s up to you to send them on their way and document their adventures!

Each Gnomad has a tracking number that guides you to its own unique webpage journal. Once registered, anyone who encounters your Gnomad on its travels can add photos to the journal and write about your Gnomad's exciting adventures.

 

Check out The GNOMAD website and get your own:

http://www.gnomads.net

 

I just dropped one in a cache today!

I DO NOT SELL THEM!

[+Robespierre]

Gee, and $8 t.b....hummmmm

[+zygote2k]

did you say gonads?

[+Eartha]

Before anyone asks, no you won't get a smiley face, or any other icon added to your stats page for finding and moving one of these items. They are not geocaching related.

[+Mopar]

Travel bugs for muggles. I see Walmart is listed as a distributer (among PLENTY of other places), maybe Jeremy should look into these next time the site needs new servers? Sounds like it could be a mutually beneficial deal.

[+Cocacola1820]

They are free for 1 yr to track then there's a catch!

 

Track your Gnomads adventure online through stories and pictures posted by GUARDIANS* to your own, secure home page - It's FREE for ONE YEAR ($3.99 thereafter)!

[+Camo-crazed]

thats so cool. I wonder where the idea came from?

[+Renegade Knight]

did you say gonads?

I had to read it twice to get it right.

 

These are like travertags only like the first Fords. Any Travel Bug you want as long as it's a Gnome.

 

You know, someone should bring back pet rocks and put numbers on them. Then you can trow them in the dirt, in the river, wherever. When someone else finds arock with a number on it they can track it's travels. Then again, no.

Edited December 19, 2004 by Renegade Knight

[+Camo-crazed]

Travel bugs for muggles. I see Walmart is listed as a distributer (among PLENTY of other places)

and while you're there hit the parking lot for a cache, who says you won't get a smiley?

[+CCATBQFM]

Those are pretty neat. J saw some in the gift shop at the hospital I work in. I snuck over and bought him two which he plans to turn into TBs.

 

S.

[+Eartha]

Now that I look at them again, they look like wandering ads for Travelocitydotcom.

Edited December 20, 2004 by Eartha

[+joefrog]

I hate that there's a catch after the first year, but it IS a cool idea!

[+Doc-Dean]

Good if you're a muggle. I can see making one into a travel bug and tracking them on gc.com...

 

Tracking TBs and Where's Georges are free though!

[+KC0GRN]

Hehe, just get one, add a TBug tag, and you won't have to worry about the year limitation

[Wallaby77]

I think the idea comes from the French Movie "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain" or "Amelie" in its English subtitled version.

 

Amelie's father always stays home and only dreams of travels. To inspire him to actually go ahead and travel, Amelie steals his gnome in his garden and sends it all over the world with her flight attendant friend who takes picture of the gnome in different countries and sends them to the father.

 

Cool that someone thought of doing it for real!

[+MissJenn]

Preesi,

I found your Gnomad! It's in my hands right now, but I have not yet decided to register to their site ....

 

I just thought I'd use this thread to let you know he is well and happy.

[+AtlantaGal]

Hehe, just get one, add a TBug tag, and you won't have to worry about the year limitation

A few local cachers here did just that. Last I heard they were awaiting their delivery. Should have them by now.

[+bigredmed]

They are free for 1 yr to track then there's a catch!

 

Track your Gnomads adventure online through stories and pictures posted by GUARDIANS* to your own, secure home page - It's FREE for ONE YEAR ($3.99 thereafter)!

But if they have the same half life as our TB's have, they will only collect about 20 bucks from the 4 owners who still have active Gnomads after a year.

[Smaug1]

Those are cuter than Travel Bugs, but twice as expensive, and there is no special feature in geocaching.com to track them yet.

 

I'm going to go with a Travel Bug I think.

[Find Now, Log Later?]

I hate that there's a catch after the first year, but it IS a cool idea!

Well, I'd wager the life expectancy of these things to be around 6 months, so that shouldn't be much of a problem.

[+AtoZ]

thats so cool. I wonder where the idea came from?

The orgional traveling Gnome started in England a number of years back. It seems some pranksters took a large garden nome and some how convenced folks to take it on travels around the world. There are picture of it all over and a webpage devoted to its exploits. The gnome is still out ther some place.

cheers

[+joefrog]

thats so cool. I wonder where the idea came from?

The orgional traveling Gnome started in England a number of years back. It seems some pranksters took a large garden nome and some how convenced folks to take it on travels around the world. There are picture of it all over and a webpage devoted to its exploits. The gnome is still out ther some place.

cheers

Yah, I remember that!

 

I bought one of the Gnomads while Christmas shopping, and I do plan on adding a TB tag instead of relying on their system -- we'll see how far he goes!