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Baseball Season is Finally Over

Sorry for the delay in posts as we were running feverishly back and forth to my nephew's baseball games the last few weeks.  Our geocaching adventures took a "slide" and now we're back in action. 

While attending the Beer Cheese Festival in Winchester, Kentucky, we made a pitstop to visit friends in Lexington.  We had a travel bug from Cave City that we needed to move along.  Thankfully we found an ideal spot at a local park.

Now that our schedules are freed up a little bit, we'll be hitting the road again to inch closer to 200 finds!  If you love attending car shows, be sure to be on the lookout for our Travel Bug VW Bug.

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Scooby Dooby Doo Where Are You?

You can hear it now running in your head...."scooby dooby doo, where are you...."  While on a recent geocaching run, we picked up another travel bug.  And boy does it have a really cool backstory to it.  "Cache & Release" travel bug TB4A17R is a salmon fish tag attached to a really cool Scooby Doo monster truck.  We picked it up while in Cave City, Kentucky. (Read about the Wigwam Village cache in my previous entry.)

The goal of the travel bug is "To cover the Northwest and Canada up the ALCAN highway making its way back up here to the Copper River in Cordova Alaska!!  A Salmon always returns back to its home stream!"

Sure enough when I looked it up, it is from Alaska!  It has been to quite a few places.  I plan on doing a bug drop here in the next week.  It will be interesting to see where its travels go.

Bye bye travel bug!

Not too long ago, we picked up the cute little Coleman Light travel bug while at Lake Cumberland. (Read about our story of picking it up here.)  This past weekend, we decided to send it on to its new home in Estill County with the GC2N5A7 - Animal Cracker Excavation geocache.  While looking at the details of the travel bug, it has traveled 4117.6 miles since it was first released!  It originated in Kansas, traveled up the northeast part of the United States.  Then it took a leap to Florida before heading to Kentucky.

It is amazing the adventures a little travel bug can go on!

Before I forget - be sure to check out my column on the national website, Examiner.com.  Here is my latest article on "6 Things You Need to Go Geocaching."

Geocaching Travel Bug Pick Up

While we were enjoying our adventures at the Lake Cumberland Geocaching Event (still working on blog on our adventures), we picked up the Coleman Mini Light Travel Bug Dog Tag.  It's reference number is TB2JARQ on the Geocaching website.  This was a neat travel bug to find in Jacob's Rock (GC1ANDZ) geocache.  The find was definitely well worth the climb.  The geocache was up on top of a mini rock wall underneath a rock.  The trick was that in order to get to the cache, you had to lay down and reach long and hard for it. Thankfully my geocaching partner has longer arms than me and was able to retrieve the cache!

We look forward to sending this travel bug to our next cache as it will help "light" the way.

Geocaching Travel Bug Update: Country Music Road Dog

I love country music and geocaching.  What better way to pair the two by having a travel bug that ties back into country music?  That's when I decided to have the Country Music Road Dog Tag to travel along.  It is a Grand Ole Opry guitar pick attached to a dog tag provided by www.Geocaching.com.

If you are a member of the Geocaching website, you can view it's tales with Reference Number TB49KQA.  It was originally placed on 7/16/2011.

Every song has a story. There is always a song that you love that brings you back to a memory, whether good or bad. Country Music Road Dog would love to travel across the United States to listen to the song you love while traveling from cache to cache. Let's see if we can get him to all 50 states. First stop - Kentucky. Home of Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass Music.

So far it has went down to Nashville, then Texas, Louisiana, and back in Kentucky.  It has traveled over 1405 miles!  Pretty cool I must say!