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Travel Bug Dog Tag My Opapa

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Owner:
Badgerdawg Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Sunday, January 1, 2006
Origin:
California, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

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Current Goal

To travel to "Bristlecone Trail" GCXW5N in Big Bear Lake in So. California.

FIRST GOAL COMPLETE! This bug has arrived at the cache "Tracer" GC7528, which is near my Opapa's birthplace of Arnhem. The journey took 1 year and 7 months to complete. THANK YOU to everyone that made the journey possible. It really means a lot to me. A special THANKS to MUMZLE and BLAZEZ for your outstanding help during my bug's journey. Cachers are the BEST PEOPLE!

 

CURRENT GOAL- 28, June, 2007: To return to Big Bear Lake, California to my cache GCXW5N "Bristlecone Trail".

About This Item

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This Travel Bug is in honor of my grandfather, My Opapa. He was born in Arnhem, The Netherlands in 1902. After WWI, he emigrated to the United States. He attended Cornell University to become an architect. He moved to San Diego,California where, to this day, there are many homes and buildings that he designed and built. Unfortunately, he passed away before I was born, but he is always with me in my heart. In 1978 I visited Arnhem, it is such a beautiful place, as is all of The Netherlands. Good Luck Opapa! PLEASE do not post TB numbers in your log. Thanks.

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Tracking History (16552.3mi) View Map

Discovered It 9/15/2012 HartQHart discovered it   Visit Log

Welcome home Opapa. Discovered this one with Badgerdawg.
What a great world trip and welcome home.
Happy Caching.

Write note 6/29/2012 Blazez posted a note for it   Visit Log

I still had this TB on my watchlist since originally it was heading to our cache. There were times that it looked like it was gone but it is GREAT that after 6 years the journey is over.
Really super, and welcome home afte this long trip.

Discovered It 6/28/2012 Team Nagata discovered it   Visit Log

Welcome home!!! 😎

Visited 6/28/2012 Badgerdawg took it to Bristlecone Trail California - 360.5 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 6/28/2012 Badgerdawg grabbed it   Visit Log

OMG! It took five years to get back to me after reaching it's first goal! Thanks to everyone that made it happen! Thank you Mumzle for your help in the Netherlands, thank you fOtOmOm and bocono for bringing it back. I'm ecstatic! 😁

Discovered It 5/3/2012 sunny_merula discovered it   Visit Log

discovered / THX

Retrieve It from a Cache 3/28/2012 bocono retrieved it from GA- GEO-CACHERS ANONYMOUS Meeting #14 California   Visit Log

Headed home to Big Bear very soon

Dropped Off 3/27/2012 f0t0m0m placed it in GA- GEO-CACHERS ANONYMOUS Meeting #14 California - 198.8 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 3/27/2012 f0t0m0m retrieved it from Bee Here to Welcome Spring Caching California   Visit Log

Moving it to Southern California...

Dropped Off 3/24/2012 DragonsWest placed it in Bee Here to Welcome Spring Caching California - 6,448.41 miles  Visit Log
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