Our New Travelling Companion (Temporary)

As most of you know we are in to geocaching.  We like it becasue it takes us to some new places and it frequently adds to the pleasure of the hiking we are doing, especially in the spectacular West!  Geocaching is a world wide activity with millions of people involved finding millions of caches!  At geocaching.com  you can read more about it (or e-mail me).  One of the parts of this world wide treasure hunt is travel bugs, aka TBs.  A TB is a uniquely numbered device that a person places in a cache and others take it on a journey to other caches.  The orginator of the TB may set a specific goal for the TB or may just have a generic goal.  It might be to see Niagara Falls or more generically "to visit all 50 States". 

Buzzy

The actual TB is usually attached to something to add character to the issue.  For instance we picked up "Buzzy" in WI.  He was a plastic Buz Lightyear character from the movies.  His goal was to travel.  He had been MIA when I found him in a cache because somebody had not properly logged his travels on geocaching.com.  I got him back in the system and dropped him near Davis-Monthan AFB where I thought he might hitch an airplane ride toward the Space Coast in FL, a suitable goal for him.  However, he was subsequently picked up and is now in Colorado Springs.  Maybe he will join the USAF Space Command in Cheyenne Mountain.


Well, we recently picked up another TB the other day! Once he found out we traveled full time he would not leave us alone! We were hiking the White Tank Mountain Regional Park, a small mountain range nearby, and doing some geocaching too when we came upon this TB.  Even though he was in a well stocked cache with plenty of friends and beautiful view he wanted to patrol the roads and he knew we could help.  As I was trying to get away he jumped into my pocket and would not let go. BJ and I deceided to give him a ride, so now there are 3 of us, at least for awhile.  He really lights up when we start talking up our Alaska trip. 

The geocache residents!

The view from the geocache!

Our new traveling companion, Pa-Troll

So we are looking forward to seeing the USA with our new buddy.  He may know my brother, as they both have a pretty extensive background in police work!

Always at home, no matter where we are!!