Comments on: Share Your Trackable Story – Trackable Week 2012

By: Scott Bishop

Scott Bishop — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:15:00 +0000

Love the idea of that TB trophy !

By: Junebugdawn

Junebugdawn — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:32:00 +0000

This is PEDRO’S story (TB4WXAB):
After a day of caching with charly30us and I returned home and realized I was hearing a bird chirping inside the house. I followed the chirping and it lead me to the kitchen trash can. I then remembered that I had emptied out swag from a wet cache the night before. I dug down to find a soaking wet yellow chick chirping away. I tossed it into the big green outdoor trashcan where it continued to chirp.

I posted in our group geocaching page about this chirping piece of swag and I got this message from charly30us in return. “That was Pedro.. [Cowgirl32's] chick if you got him out of your cache.. I bought her that for Easter last year!! So sad…We didn’t wrap him up in a baggy. Awww ” I responded with, “That makes me sad…poor Pedro.”
A while later, I went outside to go to the store and heard Pedro STILL CHIRPING inside the trashcan! I went to the store and when I came back, I decided that if Pedro was tough enough to “survive” a soaked geocache, being tossed into a trashcan, begin peeping to be noticed, being tossed into the outdoor trashcan and peeping continuously for 18+ hours, that he deserved a second “life” in the world of geocaching. I retrieved him from the trash, brought him inside, removed his batteries to give his vocal cords a rest, bathed him in the sink (along with conditioner to make his down soft) and gave him a blowdry. I think Pedro has such an amazing survival story that he deserves to travel the world cache to cache as a Travel Bug. Now you have found Pedro. Please take good care of him. Take and post pictures of his travels and then send him on his way in another cache! ”

By: taz427

taz427 — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:26:00 +0000

A couple images of Feral Hogs. Note that I don’t have any decent pics of my own and I pulled these off the internet. I’m not thinking about taking pics when I see one close enough to get a good pic. Now the gator. I took that pic, it’s about a 14 foot Gator.

By: BAT

BAT — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:32:00 +0000

I am proud to be on of the many that has taken Percy on his travels including to the top of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai! Good luck my little friend!

By: VerrueckteFrau

VerrueckteFrau — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:45:00 +0000

We had trouble posting this, so eventually it double-posted. If you want to vote for this story, please do so under “SillyMoose”s entry.

By: The Cestrian

The Cestrian — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:26:00 +0000

Hi I am The Cestrian from Chester and am relatively new to Geocaching. I planted a new cache on a green on my estate in memory of my mum a few months ago. Recently there was a CITO event nearby and more than twenty people found my cache in one day, all pretending to pick up litter, birdwatch or other suspicious activity! It is a rather visible cache with lots of muggle neighbours so i could imagine their consternation when all these folk started to turn up and rummage around under the trees! Mum would have loved all the fuss!

By: Linda Wallace

Linda Wallace — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:26:00 +0000

My Black Chow dog named Onyx born on 12-5-95 passed away on 5-25-10. I took his collar and put his photo on with some pins for people to add more pins. He visited Disney Land, Epcot, Washington DC and Hawaii twice. But the most exciting place was a photo of Onyx in the cockpit of a plane. As of today Onyx has traveled 43375.9 miles only in the USA. If you want to see photos of him on his trip go to TB3KMYP.

By: Arliecon

Arliecon — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:16:00 +0000

Dear Ole’ Dad Hey all, my handle is Arliecon (Ron) and my wife is Freedancer (Pam) and we are from Billings Montana. We have been chauffeuring around Dad’s Generic Geo Coin ( TBTJRZ) through many geo-trips over many years. The coin is owned by The Neverlanders from New York state. It is in a race with two other geo-coins to see which one can race to the finish of 50 states and return to New York. Our first encounter with Dad’s Generic coin started in May of 2006 when we found it in a cache in New Mexico in a box in the hot dusty desert. We had planned our first big geo-caching trip to follow the old Route 66 and to place some of our own TB’s along the old Mother Road. Grabbing Dad’s geo coin we had a great deal of fun moving it up Route 66, it hitched hiked with us through NM, Tex, Okla., a short jaunt down to Arkansas and then to Kassas. Missouri and back up to Illinois which was our turn around point to head back to Montana. On the return trip Dad’s geo-coin meandered with us through Iowa, Nebr, the corner of Colorado, Wyo and back to our GZ of Billings, Montana. So during this geo-jaunt Dad’s coin was close to our hip and on the move. It had made the journey with us through 12 states. We reluctantly put it in Cinco De Myao cache in August of 2006. During Aug and Sept of 2006, PaulE911 picked up the coin and became the courier of Dad’s Generic Geo-Coin (DGGC) and moved it hither a yon adding many geo-miles taking the coin back East and then brought out West again to Idaho and leaving it in Utah at the UTAG event. PaulE moved it through several new states. During 2007, the coin moved North to Idaho, then SW to Nevada and California. DGGC wandered along Northern California and made it’s way to Washington state. Well we ever meet again…? The Intercept I, (Arliecon) had been watching Dad’s Geo coin move up the coast. My wife’s parents live in Washington and we were planning a trip to Yelm to visit them this summer. I told Freedancer the coin was in Washington and we talked about an “intercept” of the coin. At the end of June 2007, it was placed in a cache where we would grab the coin again in a few days. However it got grabbed by another cacher. We had to make arrangements with him to put it back in the same cache. Man, I was worried it would be gone again by the time we got there. But, yeah! On July 9, 2007 I again had Dad’s Geo-coin in my hands. Thank full to all that had carried it along and helped arrange the hand off. On the Road Again….. I had DGGC in my fat little geo-fist and headed first down to Astoria Oregon for a quick side trip to run Dad’s geo coin through this state and then pointed our van back to Montana, Dad’s coin working it’s way through Wash, Idaho and back to Montana. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan By this time, Freedancer and I were geo-caching in many new states and decided to make a trip to Northern Michigan. So revving up the motor in the old Ford Windstar we headed East, burning up the interstate through Mont, N Dak., Minn, through Wisc and up to the North country of Michigan with good old Dad’s geo-coin hitch hiking along for the ride and a few new states. DGCC was starting to pile the new states like crazy. On Sept. 9, 2007 I reluctantly set the geo-coin free in Wisc. and sent it on it’s way toward the North East states. I had no idea if I would ever see it again and was a wee bit worried that it would disappear. In the fall of 2007 and early 2008, Dad’s coin made a slow journey and moved from Wisc. Eastward, floating through NY, Conn. and New Jersey and finally came to a stand still in NY. Sadly, it got stuck in NY for an extended sojourn in the bottom of some drawer and sat dormant for about 2 years and 10 months. The New England Trip…. Fall colors. In late Sept, 2008 we had plans to visit the New England states and cache some new states. We had e-mailed an individual that had Dad’s geo-coin. But when we arrived in NY we were supposed to meet this cacher to pick up DGGC. No luck & we missed the connect up and had to move on with out the coin. I was quite let down we couldn’t move it through the New England Good fortune, Dad’s coin on the move again. A cacher by the handle of damong managed to get the coin back from the cacher that had held it for a long long time and grabbed the coin physically and got it moving again. Good job damong! Damong was able to move it around NY and NJ and made a jaunt up to Mass. He also gave Dad’s coin a trip to sunny California, adding another 4,800 miles. Damong probably accumulated some 5,500 miles with Dad’s coin. Sadly, during Dad’s coin down time, Freedancer and I made a trip to both Alaska and Hawaii and then a long road trip to the deep South to gather new states and geo cache down South. If we had had the coin in hand it would have gone to a lot of needed states. Delaware and D.C. Our last state Late August & Sept. 2012 Freedancer and I had slowly been filling in our “stated cached in map” and only needed Delaware and Wash DC to complete all 50 states and the district. So guess what….. Road Trip! Our goal was primarily to get Delaware. I also knew damong had Dad’s coin in New York, and the states are small back East. I exchanged several e-mails with damong and he agreed to hide the coin nearby another cache in New Paltz NY. He was going to be out of town over the Labor Day weekend. How great for damong to do the “pass off” of Dad’s geo coin to me. My wife and I were so excited to get to New Paltz, NY to again meet our old friend Dad’s Generic Geo-Coin. A big Yippie Skippie when we found it in it’s covert hiding spot. How cool is that. I couldn’t believe I had the coin there in my hand, I never ever thought I would ever see it again. Thanks to dmong, … it is headed West again. Making the U turn in NY, we headed back down to Penn, Delaware and Washington DC to cache in those new states and run the coin through it’s needed states. As we headed back to Montana, smiling all the way, we logged Dad’s Geo coin through the needed states of Penn, Del, Wash DC, a short jaunt down to Virginia and on to W. Va. and lastly, picking up Indiana for Dad’s coin. Passing through the other mid western states & back to the Treasure state, Montana. Dad’s Generic Geo-coin will now have traveled through 36 U.S. states, across the US about 4 times and has garnered about 24,000 plus geo miles. It has only about 14 states left to visit. I have become quite attached to this little coin and the intercepts from coast to coast have been possible only through the cooperation of many other geo-cachers. What a great adventure, and a great hobby and I am still logging. What fun it has been….. And more caches to visit. Arliecon & Freedancer

By: Arliecon

Arliecon — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:55:00 +0000

Dear Ole’ Dad
Hey all, my handle is Arliecon (Ron) and my wife is Freedancer (Pam) and we are from Billings Montana. We have been chauffeuring around Dad’s Generic Geo Coin ( TBTJRZ) through many geo-trips over many years. The coin is owned by The Neverlanders from New York state. It is in a race with two other geo-coins to see which one can race to the finish of 50 states and return to New York.
Our first encounter with Dad’s Generic coin started in May of 2006 when we found it in a cache in New Mexico in a box in the hot dusty desert. We had planned our first big geo-caching trip to follow the old Route 66 and to place some of our own TB’s along the old Mother Road. Grabbing Dad’s geo coin we had a great deal of fun moving it up Route 66, it hitched hiked with us through NM, Tex, Okla., a short jaunt down to Arkansas and then to Kassas. Missouri and back up to Illinois which was our turn around point to head back to Montana. On the return trip Dad’s geo-coin meandered with us through Iowa, Nebr, the corner of Colorado, Wyo and back to our GZ of Billings, Montana. So during this geo-jaunt Dad’s coin was close to our hip and on the move. It had made the journey with us through 12 states. We reluctantly put it in Cinco De Myao cache in August of 2006.
During Aug and Sept of 2006, PaulE911 picked up the coin and became the courier of Dad’s Generic Geo-Coin (DGGC) and moved it hither a yon adding many geo-miles taking the coin back East and then brought out West again to Idaho and leaving it in Utah at the UTAG event. PaulE moved it through several new states.
During 2007, the coin moved North to Idaho, then SW to Nevada and California. DGGC wandered along Northern California and made it’s way to Washington state.
Well we ever meet again…? The Intercept
I, (Arliecon) had been watching Dad’s Geo coin move up the coast. My wife’s parents live in Washington and we were planning a trip to Yelm to visit them this summer. I told Freedancer the coin was in Washington and we talked about an “intercept” of the coin. At the end of June 2007, it was placed in a cache where we would grab the coin again in a few days. However it got grabbed by another cacher. We had to make arrangements with him to put it back in the same cache. Man, I was worried it would be gone again by the time we got there. But, yeah! On July 9, 2007 I again had Dad’s Geo-coin in my hands. Thank full to all that had carried it along and helped arrange the hand off.
On the Road Again…..
I had DGGC in my fat little geo-fist and headed first down to Astoria Oregon for a quick side trip to run Dad’s geo coin through this state and then pointed our van back to Montana, Dad’s coin working it’s way through Wash, Idaho and back to Montana.
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan
By this time, Freedancer and I were geo-caching in many new states and decided to make a trip to Northern Michigan. So revving up the motor in the old Ford Windstar we headed East, burning up the interstate through Mont, N Dak., Minn, through Wisc and up to the North country of Michigan with good old Dad’s geo-coin hitch hiking along for the ride and a few new states. DGCC was starting to pile the new states like crazy.
On Sept. 9, 2007 I reluctantly set the geo-coin free in Wisc. and sent it on it’s way toward the North East states. I had no idea if I would ever see it again and was a wee bit worried that it would disappear.
In the fall of 2007 and early 2008, Dad’s coin made a slow journey and moved from Wisc. Eastward, floating through NY, Conn. and New Jersey and finally came to a stand still in NY. Sadly, it got stuck in NY for an extended sojourn in the bottom of some drawer and sat dormant for about 2 years and 10 months.
The New England Trip…. Fall colors.
In late Sept, 2008 we had plans to visit the New England states and cache some new states. We had e-mailed an individual that had Dad’s geo-coin. But when we arrived in NY we were supposed to meet this cacher to pick up DGGC. No luck & we missed the connect up and had to move on with out the coin. I was quite let down we couldn’t move it through the New England
Good fortune, Dad’s coin on the move again.
A cacher by the handle of damong managed to get the coin back from the cacher that had held it for a long long time and grabbed the coin physically and got it moving again. Good job damong! Damong was able to move it around NY and NJ and made a jaunt up to Mass. He also gave Dad’s coin a trip to sunny California, adding another 4,800 miles. Damong probably accumulated some 5,500 miles with Dad’s coin.
Sadly, during Dad’s coin down time, Freedancer and I made a trip to both Alaska and Hawaii and then a long road trip to the deep South to gather new states and geo cache down South. If we had had the coin in hand it would have gone to a lot of needed states.
Delaware and D.C. Our last state
Late August & Sept. 2012
Freedancer and I had slowly been filling in our “stated cached in map” and only needed Delaware and Wash DC to complete all 50 states and the district. So guess what….. Road Trip! Our goal was primarily to get Delaware. I also knew damong had Dad’s coin in New York, and the states are small back East. I exchanged several e-mails with damong and he agreed to hide the coin nearby another cache in New Paltz NY. He was going to be out of town over the Labor Day weekend. How great for damong to do the “pass off” of Dad’s geo coin to me.
My wife and I were so excited to get to New Paltz, NY to again meet our old friend Dad’s Generic Geo-Coin. A big Yippie Skippie when we found it in it’s covert hiding spot. How cool is that. I couldn’t believe I had the coin there in my hand, I never ever thought I would ever see it again.
Thanks to dmong, … it is headed West again. Making the U turn in NY, we headed back down to Penn, Delaware and Washington DC to cache in those new states and run the coin through it’s needed states. As we headed back to Montana, smiling all the way, we logged Dad’s Geo coin through the needed states of Penn, Del, Wash DC, a short jaunt down to Virginia and on to W. Va. and lastly, picking up Indiana for Dad’s coin. Passing through the other mid western states & back to the Treasure state, Montana.
Dad’s Generic Geo-coin will now have traveled through 36 U.S. states, across the US about 4 times and has garnered about 24,000 plus geo miles. It has only about 14 states left to visit. I have become quite attached to this little coin and the intercepts from coast to coast have been possible only through the cooperation of many other geo-cachers. What a great adventure,
and a great hobby and I am still logging.
What fun it has been….. And more caches to visit.
Arliecon & Freedancer

By: TRYPSYT

TRYPSYT — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:12:00 +0000

Hi my name is TRYPSYT
My story is a silly one but I like it. I was taking my sister out on her first geocaching trip. I had found a travel bug in a bug hotel in Utah and I was wanting to place it in CT where my sister lives. We found an area where there were a few caches, so we decided that the woods where they were located was a good place for us to start. As we went to our first cache we found it relatively easy and went to find the larger cache to place the bug. She was very excited for this and determined to find it. Well it had stormed so we had to hike in the hot summer afternoon through fallen trees, wet grass and tons of moss and mud. We eventually placed the bug and began our hike back to through the woods to get to our car.As we were getting to the end of the trail my sister nonchalantly leans over to me and says “Hey look there is a rooster”. So I said “ Why is there a rooster in the woods?”After deciding that this was an excellent time for a photo op, my sister began to walk over to the bird to get a picture to show everyone so they would believe us later.As she started walking over to it, it began to get angry and started flapping it’s wings and squawking. Not knowing what to do we tried walking around the bird to get through but every time we would go one way it would be two steps ahead of us blocking the way. To see if we could scare it I took of my backpack and started waving it at it. Well that made the situation worse and the rooster started chasing us. We ran as far back away from ti as we could,but it continuously stalked us slowly. As we panicked more my sister decided it was a good idea to call my mother to help us out of the situation. We waited a good 15 minutes and my mother came with a large stick and chased the rooster away from us so we could get out of the woods. Needless to say that was one of the best times I had placing a travel bug and I doubt I will ever be able to top it!! ( I have many pics of the rooster in the woods but of course none of us with it!!)