S Keillan

The current goal of this "Travel Bug" is to go to a whole lot of Geocaches. They can be traditional caches, multi-caches, virtual caches, event caches, or even caches not found. Other goals include:

• Getting our new house clean and organised (working on it)
• Getting out of debt (mostly complete)
• Losing weight to a healthy level
• Finding someone to share my life with (accomplished February 2004)
• Establishing full diplomatic relations between the Sovereign Province of Solaura and other nations
• Solving the important mysteries of life, such as who financed the Pyramids, who killed off the dinosaurs, where is the Lost Isthmus, and whatever became of John Stuart Mill
• Implementing the total annihilation of the Planet Jova
• Inventing the time machine to travel back in time to the year 1791 and secure U.S. Patent Number 1
• Living to at least the age of 91 in order to see Halley's Comet

This Travel Bug is actually me. RPW, a caching buddy of mine, suggested that it would be possible to track one's cache hunting movements by creating a Travel Bug that visits all the caches one goes to, probably something he had heard on the Geocaching forums. The idea is that it is placed virtually in a particular cache, with the entry for the drop deleted, then grabbed immediately from that cache, leaving this page as the only record, along with its mention of Travel Bugs seen in the given caches. I decided to give it a try, adding the idea of using this page as something of a blog to add alternate perspectives of caching. (I did that for the blogging for a while, but it really slows this down, so I'll do so rarely now.) With that purpose in mind, this Travel Bug will never be left in a cache. (I wouldn't fit anyway, at least in most caches, although I did find one that I would fit in. ) Also, I'll be the only one who will ever have physical possession of it. (If otherwise, I'm sure that there will have to be some kind of incredible explanation involved. ) I am, however, free to be "discovered". In general, the tag will be on my person when I'm cache hunting, so it actually does make a legitimate visit to the caches listed. If you would like to log a Discovered find when you see me, just let me know and I'll whip out the tag.

The Travel Bug itself was actually activated on 23 November 2003, so I retroactively applied it to most of the 140 caches that I had been to before this date and am now in the process of adding ones after that date. (I know, I'm slow and way behind, but get used to it! However, I should get caught up in the near future.) I've also included caches that I've been to that I've not found for whatever reason or just posted a note for a follow-up visit. (I don't post multiple finds for the same cache, even event caches. I think that's a bit cheesy.) The criteria for a TB visit is that I've actually been in the area of the cache and made some significant effort to locate it. I haven't included caches for which I've posted notes from afar (such as messages or TB maintenance), locationless caches (since the GPS data don't match the actual location, and doesn't accept TB drops), Earthcaches (again, no TB drops accepted) or traveling caches (since the coordinates change too radically). However, I will post notes about those types of caches as a note at the appropriate date.

Since this is a Travel Bug description, let me describe myself. I'm 184 cm tall, weigh about 140 kg, have brown hair and brown eyes (although my wife says that my eyes change colour), and married as of February 2004 to Diane, who uses the Geocaching name Another Darned Cacher. We live with five (yes, five) cats named Ebon, Awny, Bach, Ghost, and Orion who all demand attention from us constantly. I'm a fan of Orson Scott Card's Ender books, the Miami Dolphins, the Montreal Canadiens (Go Habs!), the several Star Trek series, and the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I've practically memorized the movie). I like to play board games, enter dollar bills at WheresGeorge.com, play music on my synthesizer (some of which I compose myself), travel all over the place, web-surf on my computer, meditate (my wife and I are Buddhists), develop science-fiction worlds (for potential story ideas), and, of course, Geocaching, with puzzle caches being among my favourite kinds, but I'll hunt almost anything with a waypoint. Most importantly, though, I like keeping my wife happy, most of the time.

More information about me can be found through my Yahoo! 360° page, where I have been entering blogs on a variety of subjects, including geocaching. If you have a 360° page, feel free to sent an invitation to join your friends lists. I would enjoy interacting with others in that manner.

Thank you for your attention. IOVA DELENDA EST!