Anyhow, that's what Saturday last seemed like. I left home early Saturday morning to pick up BatikFraeak10 (worthy sister) for a long day's drive (well over 400 miles round trip) in order to attend our first ever Geocaching organized event.
In case you have forgotten, travel bugs are those little bits of metal attached to any suitable and semi-attractive object-think Hot Wheels cars or tiny dolls or other figures. The "TB's" (as they are known) are sent into the world of geocahing to do various and sundry travels and to meet diverse goals and objectives. Our first ever organized event would be a gathering of dedicated geocachers to place many (56 as it turned out) travel bugs in a specific geocache. The TB's would then be entered in a year long race to see which ones could accumulate the most miles during the 365 day period.
Along the way, and while we were in the neighborhood so to speak, we managed to travel over into both Kentucky and Ohio in order to grab a very few ordinary geocaches and get our electronic awards for caching in those states.
Mostly a photo display but ride along. Bring your umbrella.
Down the WV Turnpike we go in the driving rain.
But by the time we were in Charleston WV, the State Capital, the rain had ceased. Super cool, because our event gathering is only a few miles away.
A new (for us) type of travel bug. You can actually record this, and the other new and odd types of TB's we saw at the Geocaching.com travel bug home page.
Signing up. The SUV in the far background (raised rear gate) is the collection point for our travel bugs.
This is also a real TB and can be logged as found. It attaches magnetically to the owner's vehicle. A regular TB is only about an inch and a half long-quite a bit more convenient
Your's truly waiting patiently in line to send my travel bugs...who knows where.
Yet another travel bug variation.
Heading home from Ohio and our successful finds in two new states.
Nearing Beckley and back to wet roads but no more rain.
Thanks to BatikFreak10 for taking the traveling as well as several other pictures. A great, if a trifle long, day.
You said patiently~~didn't realize that word was in your vocabulary!! ;-D
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good day, all in all, considering the rain.
Hope your TB makes it the furthest!!