Trail Mix

A few weeks ago, Torran decided to enter in on a contest featured on one of his favorite geocaching podcasts, the GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast. The podcast features the husband and wife team of Amy ‘HeadHardHatress’ and Andy ‘HeadHardHat’. Their shows usually feature tips, trick and basics of geocaching. Every week they have a contest for some neat geocaching prizes provided to them by awesome caching stores; such as GXProxy, and Coin and Pins.com. In Episode 180 of the GeoSnippits Reboot podcast Amy and Andy announced that Torran was the winner for the week. Shortly after, a package full of all sort of goodies arrived at our door. The package included a whistle, carabiner clip, pathtag holder and a trackable trek tag provided by GXProxy. Also, included in the package was an official GeoSnippets trackable patch. This patch is pretty awesome. Not only can you turn whatever you attach it to into a trackable, but it glows in the dark. If you get a chance, check out the winning ep...

Welcome back to another TB Spotlight where we take a closer look at Travel Bugs we've discovered during our Geocaching adventures. This week we look at a travel bug that we found on our drive home to Alberta from Michigan on July 27th of 2014. It was located in a cache in Minnesota called 2 Above, Louis Below which was a pretty neat cache that we drove up to down by the St. Louis River. In this cache we found the ' Catch Me A Fish ' travel bug and decided to bring it along with us on our journey home. 'Catch Me A Fish' was released back on July 7th of 2013 by its owner Dada Joka . According to Dada Joka, this travel bug was created by his son, who is an avid fisherman. The current goal is for the bug to travel to as many fishing communities as possible and at each new state or country that another lure is added to the chain, minus the hooks. As you can see there were several additional hooks attached when we caught this bug. On April 7th of 2015, a...

While checking out a few things in the area, we decided to look in on the  UA The Cache Effect  again to see if all was well. To our surprise we discovered this cute little ladybug travel bug and brought it home to continue it's journey. Released on August 13th, 2012, The Ladybug has currently travelled 13721.3 miles around North America starting out first in British Columbia, Canada. The travel bug owner, sportbikegirl, has listed the current goal to be to travel from cache to cache getting as many pictures from many places before heading home. The Ladybug also has a history with the TB owner, having been on her keychain for many years before being set free to travel the world collecting pictures. Sportbikegirl has made one request with this bug, that if possible The Ladybug would be left in premium member caches only.

So we decided to start sharing some of our Travel Bug finds along with a little write-up about them. We will also link several pages to the articles so you can go check out the caches, maps and the travel bug itself.  This particular one we found in UA The Cache Effect  which is a cache we check in on frequently since we often come here on a weekly basis. The travel bug itself is called  ONEBADGTZ's Toy Jeep Travel Bug  and has already logged 8248 miles . The current goal for this little guy is to travel to cache "c 18-00-34" ( GC22KTQ ) , located in Wixom, MI. The owner of the travel bug is looking to have a picture of this item taken in front of a building which is closest to  AEV  .  This Travel Bug was released on the 28th of May, 2012 in Ontario, Canada.