One part of the geocaching experience is trackables. Some people love to discover them at events. Some love to wear nametags and be discovered. Others love to find them in caches to move to the next location. This post is about a special bug that started traveling in 2006!

I received a grant that year for 50 travel bug tags and 12 Garmin GPSrs to use in my 4th grade classroom. Each of my students provided a traveler, wrote up a goal and description and watched the progress for the year. We utilized the data for all core subjects! Of course many of the  tbs went missing quickly, but we had enough to watch that year. A few of my students created their own accounts and adopted their TBs. Most of them stayed in my name though.

Here's the TB page

I was notified that this bug was missing or that the whole cache was missing, so I decided to recycle the number. I erased the logs (if there were any) and changed the name. That's as far as I went though for some reason.

How the TB was mailed to me

Fast forward to the 2015-2016 school year. Someone mails this bug to me without giving their name or location. I did some detective work and determined that the box came from Kansas, but I was never able to figure out from cache logs that this was even dropped in any of the caches near Tin Cup, Colorado. Of course I only looked at the ones right at Tin Cup!

Close up so that the note can be read

When the 2016-2017 school year begins, I'll be putting this out after I talk about it with my new 2nd graders. I hope it continues on its journeys!

Original laminated paperwork is even with the TB