Travel Bugs and Geocoins

Besides writing a lot about Lady Emily Ashton I seem to also be writing a lot of about Geocaching. I have to say that I can't believe that I had let this hobby of mine lapse for so long!! What on Earth was I thinking??

Today after stopping at the library I went to the Starbucks in the bookstore with one goal in mind. To get a $5 gift card from SB to put as a prize in my cache I am 'releasing into the wild' this weekend. I ran into a guiding friend of mine and when she asked me what I was doing there I said that I was on my way to find a cache. She got all excited and asked me to move a geocoin for her to which I readily agreed. Leanne had it in her possession for awhile and I was glad to take it off her hands. :)

 Are some of you still thinking "what the heck is a geocoin?" The image to the left is the one that I took off Leanne's hands today. It has a special tracking code on it and it is tracked and logged on www.geocaching.com

These are a couple of the geocoins I own. I am going to try and get another one like it so that I can keep one and send one out. I really like the gnome one!! (Hence, the reason why I want to keep one and then send one out). Travel bugs and geocoins also occasionally go missing so it would be nice to have an extra...especially for my own collection.

Now...onto travel bugs. My mission today was to release one of the travel bugs today. A travel bug is basically the same as a geocoin only it can be anything...from a small stuffy with the TB dog tag to a figurine with the dog tag with the special tracking number.

This is the "My Little Pony" travel bug that I have created. I bought the little figure at Toys 'r' us and attached the dog tag. I registered the dog tag and she was ready to go. I will have two other 'my little pony' travel bugs as soon as I can find my other dog tags lol!!

I started this one on Sunday when I went out to try and find a couple of caches but didn't place her anywhere. I think she will be happy in the cache I placed her in and I can't wait to see where she travels. Perhaps I will post how many KMs she travels once a month depending on how much and how far she travels.

Off to plan my next geocaching adventure. I think I am going to grab some caches after my interview and my dentist appointment tomorrow. Wish me luck!!

More Musings to follow!

~Manda