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Travel Bug Dog Tag Tell me a story - Travel Bug

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Owner:
Luminesence Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Origin:
South East England, United Kingdom
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

"Tell me a story" is going to begin it's journey in the hands of Luminesence and will be in attendance at Piratemania http://coord.info/GC365FT where it will be available for discovering and story adding. From Piratemania the journal will then be travelling to USA as part of a travel bug swap with DeBaere (http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=2e7ef3ba-29ba-4d98-a26c-e04102af78da) where it's journey will truly begin. To travel the world collecting stories. The idea is to pass this from cacher to cacher, rather than placing it in a geocache somewhere (unless the geocache container is large enough and water tight). To log mileage could the current holder please "visit" the journal at the nearest geocache to your home. Many Thanks.

When the book is full please contact Luminesence at luminesence76@yahoo.co.uk

About This Item

Tell me a story

The goal/object of this travel bug is to share stories with each other. We all have stories to tell, whether they are about Geocaching, travelling or our home lives.

I am the main author of our families blog, geocachingwithgeokids on Wordpress.com, where we share our stories with anyone who wants to read them. It was through writing this blog that I decided I wanted to learn more about other Cachers experiences from around the globe.

So please write your stories within its pages- including your caching name, home town, state/county & country, and let me know if we can share your story on the blog. If you are willing to share your story publically then either type it into a log on here, photograph it and email it to me.

Best Wishes from Luminesence, Smif247, cadencetheGeokid and Jellybeansgeokid

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Tracking History (5269.5mi) View Map

Mark Missing 5/2/2015 Luminesence marked it as missing   Visit Log

The owner has set this Trackable as missing.

Grab It (Not from a Cache) 8/19/2013 Kyadak&Family grabbed it   Visit Log

Will make an entry and move along ASAP

Visited 10/12/2012 Davequal took it to Forgotten/Replaced entrance! Connecticut - 152.08 miles  Visit Log
Visited 9/25/2012 Davequal took it to COMB THE BEACH WEB-CAM CACHE Massachusetts - 3,255.55 miles  Visit Log
Visited 9/20/2012 Davequal took it to The Toiling Gnome Connecticut - 3,435.41 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 9/19/2012 Davequal grabbed it   Visit Log

I got this from debaere, in the mail the other day. I will add a story. Then I will pass it off to another cacher, or find a cache for it.

Discovered It 8/19/2012 DarrylW4 discovered it   Visit Log

Checked out some stories while at Panera with the current holder.

Write note 8/14/2012 debaere posted a note for it   Visit Log

Adding my story to the book. It reads as follows:

The Tale Of The First Lamp Post.

This story recounts the true tale of a man. A hairy man. A jolly man. A fat man (no, not that jolly fat man!). This man goes by the name of G. O. Cacher. He is, of course, Canadian.

At the time this story is set, he has only recently been blessed with the knowledge of obscure objects, caches, stashed in the secret places of the world. His newfound mission is to seek out these objects He has only found a few, but he waits with anticipation of more adventures.

Alone he sits in the dark comfort of his living room, when such a racket as has never befalled him before rang forth, shattering the peaceful quiet. That sound indicates the birth of a brand new container. That sound was a notification from Lackeys Of Groundspeak.

Intrigued with the possibilities a brand new cache may bring, he suits up and heads out the door. Thus a new adventure begins.

The hunt leads him to the parking lot of yonder Aldi. It was quiet... too quiet. The wind blows through his hair. The search for the mystery object begins.

In a 30 foot radius he begins to spiral inwards, looking under every rock and in every tree. Success, however, would elude him. Perplexed he reassesses the scene. There are trees, a few rocks, and a lamp post. The trees are empty, and the upturned rocks refuse to give up their secrets. There is nothing on the post, but maybe... just maybe... the lamp post holds more secrets than it lets on.

A closer examination reveals that not everything is as it appears. Not everything is attached. The skirt moves. It lifts. Could it be? Yes. There is the sacred object he seeks!

Elation ensues. Caches are opened. Log books are signed. Containers are replaced. Success is declared. The adventure concludes.

As time passes our hero returns to the hunt again and again. Often sparring with his old nemesis, the lamp post. Time and again he defeats this foe. Each time he remembers fondly his first encounter with the lamp post, and how sweet that conquest tasted. Weary he lifts the skirt again, wishing he was back at his first time, the only time, when the lamp post cache was cool.

Ok, ok, the second time was cool too.

Discovered It 8/12/2012 AtlasYMM discovered it   Visit Log

Debaere brought this to an event I was at. I was holding my 3 week old granddaughter, trying to eat, trying to visit with my new friends and trying to write a story. I'm sure, if I read the story now, I'd sound like a babbling idiot. I love this idea, I really, really hope that the owner eventually shares all of the stories with us. What great reading that will be. Thank you so much for this neat idea.

Visited 8/10/2012 debaere took it to Geo Addiction Club Meet & Eat North Carolina - 1 miles  Visit Log
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