High Mileage Travel Bugs or Successful Goal Stories

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High Mileage Travel Bugs or Successful Goal Stories

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Our highest mileage TB TBQ2MZ has moved 16,234.6 miles. I'd like to hear what others have to say mileage wise or storiess of successful missions. I've enjoyed playing around with TBs/TravelCoins and helping them along on their way.
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We dropped a bug named Traveling Troll Kids (TBVVE) Traveling Troll Kids in Myrtle Beach back in June of 2006, and it made it home again finally in December of 2007 after logging some 8,000 miles. Unfortunately we then took it to Las Vegas, and it has come up missing now .
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Our highest mileage TB is Marty the Monster.

We launched it at the NWOGEO Christmas party on 12/19/2004. It now has 24,131 miles on it and is still in circulation.
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Our highest milage travel bug is Big C's Lizard Light TB19DKT. It has traveled 11,492.7 miles and it just visited the Original Stash Tribute Plaque (GCGV0P).
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OndHunt's Lizard would have had many, many more miles had our cousins had a GPSr and internet connection while over in Europe. We tried our best to get it over there but they just couldn't find a cache to place it. They were all over the place including Germany, England, and France among others. Sorry they couldn't get this TB a lot more miles. It really is well travelled and hopefully one day will make it to India.
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Boatswain Bear TBHP8T has 31,741 miles. I picked him up at Monroe Community College. He is currently back in Toledo for additional training.

Noni Noni Poo Poo TBHQ5K is somewhere with 19,974 miles.

TBHW0G completed it's mission with 11,324 miles.
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Mike's Morristown Benchmark Geocoin MBRTZN has moved farther than any of our other TBs at 9088.5 and we just launched it on April 4, 2009.

We have a couple of others that have been moving all over the the Czech Republic but they only move a couple of miles at a time.
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My TB that travel the most is Patty Platypus It was launch on April 23, 2003 and travel 10,990. Not bad since it disappear for 3 years.
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Yogi57 wrote:My TB that travel the most is Patty Platypus It was launch on April 23, 2003 and travel 10,990. Not bad since it disappear for 3 years.
Wow, I just checked out your TB! That is amazing that it disappeared for that long and suddenly has reappeared!
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My Four Corners Benchmark coin has 15784.8mi on it. It went to London and has been hanging out in New Zealand for awhile now.
I guess it doesn't really count, but my car TB has 22894.6mi.
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I should share this! Our "U.S. Geological Surveyor" taken on some kind of crazy tour of the Rockies. Got it's pic taken at GC30 "Mingo", and even found a spot where the artwork on it matched the location, huge animals and all!

The cacher looks kinda familiar, let me know if you've seen this guy around.
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TB1M14A

This one's not messing around. My Jimbobwe coin went from Sweden to Spain to Germany to Peru to France in 4 moves.
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Congrats on it hitting the 20,000 mile mark!
We have one in Ireland, and one in the Netherlands. Maybe at the rate yours is going, they'll run into each other!
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My Puzzle Freak has gone 10838 miles since last April. Someone was nice enough to take it to Switzerland! It hasn't hit quite as many puzzle caches as I hoped but it sure seems to get around!
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Dropped a Masonic Geocoin in Wilmington, Ohio in mid December. Received a post that it has since moved to a warmer site. The coin was last tagged in Hawaii, last week. A journey of 4,991 miles, to date.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
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