Travel Bug Dog Tag Bead-Okra Black Glass Oval TB

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Owner:
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Released:
Friday, March 3, 2017
Origin:
Texas, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of Benenati831.

This is not collectible.

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Current Goal

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 26-May-24 this trackable had survived for 6.9 years but it had been moved by only 12 cachers, for an average drop every 211 days, or 1.7 drops per year. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it at an event, in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban, non-premium cache. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

About This Item

This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs.  They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.  Much of the text is from the online Handbook of Texas or texasescapes.com.

Okra, in south central Eastland County, was named for the vegetable.  Settlement began in 1880 on lands made available by the Texas and Pacific Railway.  The post office was established in 1899, and a gin was built a year later.  The population was fifty in 1914, forty in 1940, and twenty in 1980 through 2000.  Tiny Okra has both "city limits" signs are on the same post.

By the 1920s the town had a cotton gin, a public school and teacherage, two churches, and a number of stores and businesses.  During Prohibition, the countryside along the Colorado River south of Whon was a popular hideout for bootleggers.   As small-scale cotton farming in the area decreased, the community began to decline.  In 1940 Whon had a store, a post office, and sixty people; by 1949 the population had dropped to thirty.  The post office, which had become a unique drive-in facility in 1961, was still operating in the 1980s.  At one time Whon was thought to be at the exact center of the state, until a surveyor's error of ten miles was discovered.  Through 2000 the population was still reported at fifteen.

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Retrieve It from a Cache 6/3/2024 Benenati831 retrieved it from Welcome to The Beeches New York   Visit Log

This was my first EVER trackable! I just started Geocaching (again) 3 days ago 5/31/24, for the first time in 16 years! First night my wife and I went out and found 5 at night to test out the app and to see if she liked it since it was her first time EVER Geocaching, and then the we took our 7 year old son out yesterday and found 8 more (he’s already a pro and loves it) I used to geocache the old school way with the electronic handheld coordinates reader, and a paper of coordinates from a website, and hints if they had any with the traditional caches of take something leave something and sign. I forgot all about Geocaching, until my in-home nurse mentioned it to me, and told me all about the app. I was instantly intrigued as it was a great memory of my father and I’s many, many adventures 16 years ago and a young teen. I downloaded the app, and couldn’t believe how many caches there were and how popular it was. I live in the country and there’s 27 just within 2 miles of my home. I did a bunch of research and read about the trackables, I thought they were so cool and such an awesome idea! And wanted to make my own cache. I’ve been set to find a trackable ever since. And it was only my 2nd time out, less than 24 hours apart, 4th cache in that I found one (this one) by accident, wasn’t marked as having one in the cache and I was so excited! I’m in little ole Upstate/Central New York (Rome NY is where I found it). So to see the log of where this has traveled, and where it originated (Texas) is just mind blowing to me! Plan to re-hide within the week, if I can’t make it out tonight due to health issues. Thank you so much to the owner for making my entire week! I’ve been struggling with depression due to being so chronically ill, and attached to IV TPN through my mediport 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. To some it’s just a “trackable”, but this meant so much more to me. These 2 times I went geocaching in the last 2 days, is the most I’ve left my house, or been able to physically have the strength to walk enough to enjoy a bit of life again since getting so sick in October, and “medically retiring” from healthcare in March and filing for disability. Geocaching gave me back a little bit of motivation I was lacking from the depression that came with me being severely chronically ill and intravenously given nutrition at 30 years old and losing life as I knew it, and finding this trackable truly was just a life changing experience and a milestone in my life in ways I can’t explain for others to understand. I can’t thank the owner enough!l, so thank you!! And thank you to all those before me who helped get it up here and in my path to find it!

Discovered It 5/31/2024 eyestronaut discovered it New York   Visit Log

wasn’t sure what this black bead was at first!
Discovered It 5/31/2024 tori_anne1242 discovered it New York   Visit Log

Sick man staying w my friend Megan saying goodbye to my baby

Dropped Off 5/25/2024 CarriVT placed it in Welcome to The Beeches New York - 166.07 miles  Visit Log

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Grab It (Not from a Cache) 5/9/2024 CarriVT grabbed it   Visit Log

Saved from the event over the eclipse. Will circulate

Mark Missing 5/9/2024 shellbadger marked it as missing   Visit Log

The owner has set this Trackable as missing.
Discovered It 4/12/2024 wildflowers57 discovered it Vermont   Visit Log

Discovered at Eclipes event
Discovered It 4/10/2024 MrsMonopoly discovered it Vermont   Visit Log

Discovered at the Hello Darkness My Old Friend eclipse event!
Discovered It 4/9/2024 MrMonopoly22 discovered it Vermont   Visit Log

I discovered this TB at Hello Darkness My Old Friend event in Vermont while observing the solar eclipse!!
Discovered It 4/8/2024 Hypercycloid discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered while waiting for the eclipse in West Glover, VT!
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