Sunday, January 6, 2013

Geocaching Part II - Travel Bugs and other Trackables

Travel Bug, Seattle, geocaching
The Dead Are Rising, (And They Have Never Been More Adorable)
 

I talked about Geocaching, or Modern Treasure Hunting, in a prior post.  The hidden treasure nature of the game it the main draw for my boys, but they have started to explore the other facets.  Trackables are their new favorite.   A trackable is an item or tag that has been etched with a unique tracking number and is registered at one of the geocaching websites.  Once the owner places it in a geocache, any new finders of the trackable log their find online and move it to a new geocache.   Some of these trackables will travel many thousand miles all over the world (one's even been to the International Space Station!)  As for our trackables, our farthest traveled one has traveled 29,000 miles and counting

, but our current favorite is Run Frodo! which is currently traveling through New Zealand.


Kang The Slightly Menacing


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