WGA Travel Bug Race
2025-2026 WGA Travel Bug Race
Our current leaders as of February 16 are butterfamily89, KEANeyedCachers- K, terribletom, Dixiedogmom.
Racers seeing the most movement in the past month:
~ KEANEyedCachers Migrating Duck – K owned by KEANeyedCachers- K traveled 1202.1 miles by 2 cachers.
~ Howard “Hemi Orange” Julius IV – owned by terribletom traveled 1682 miles by 2 cachers.
~ A boy’s big adventure – owned byDixiedogmom traveled 1023.5 miles by 1 cacher.
17 other travelbugs moved less than 100 miles.
The remaining travel bugs did not move at all in the last month. Must have been a slow, cold January.
Current standings are listed below. Use the TB code to check on more details of any racer at www.geocaching.com/track
2025-2026 Race Standings
| TB Code | Racer | Owner | Starting Miles | Current Miles | Race Miles |
| TBB2RDZ | TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER (BOARD) | buttersfamily89 | 479.9 | 9259.1 | 8779.2 |
| TBAV0BW | KEANEyedCachers Migrating Duck – K | KEANeyedCachers- K | 479.9 | 3262 | 2782.1 |
| TBAV17D | Howard “Hemi Orange” Julius IV | terribletom | 479.9 | 3262 | 2782.1 |
| TB9WJ0H | A boy’s big adventure | Dixiedogmom | 318.34 | 3010.9 | 2692.56 |
| TB9BZD4 | Curious Cat | Forkycache | 786.94 | 3085.5 | 2298.56 |
| TB8MCZG | In Light of a Race – TB Racer-M | MavWitt – M | 785.54 | 2925.2 | 2139.66 |
| TBAX6Q3 | John’s Cache Ba$h Racer | oregonjohn1 | 748.13 | 2886.4 | 2138.27 |
| TB9NDHT | Raslas Wonders of the World Tag | raslas | 785.54 | 2875 | 2089.46 |
| TB9WR28 | Jacob’s Racecar | Helkat1 | 785.54 | 2869.1 | 2083.56 |
| TB90MG8 | MaxoClarko | RainbowRachAndCo | 785.54 | 2841.4 | 2055.86 |
| TBAQ9KN | Kracken Up the Miles – WGA 2026 Racer | pixiestix13 | 785.54 | 2841.4 | 2055.86 |
| TBA2ZA5 | If not friend, why friend-shaped? | trickynikkiv | 785.54 | 2792.1 | 2006.56 |
| TB9X3GP | jodibee’s Packer RACER 2025/2026 | jodibee | 479.9 | 1981.4 | 1501.5 |
| TBAYYYR | MTCLMBR: B’s 2025-2026 TB Racer | MTCLMBR-B | 748.13 | 2077.3 | 1329.17 |
| TBA37NK | Booker’s spotted racer | 2 book lovers | 748.13 | 2077.3 | 1329.17 |
| TB9X39X | Cookie Monster Racing for the Last Crumb | doublearon81 | 748.13 | 2077.3 | 1329.17 |
| TBAYYMK | Nathan’s Chiefs Signal Holiday Tag | Team Honeybunnies | 744.98 | 2074.1 | 1329.12 |
| TBAX6AX | Wisconsin Traveler | Gypsyseeker | 85.1 | 785.1 | 700 |
| TB7NKF1 | Lostcheq’s GW14er Hippy Van | lostcheq | 323.95 | 923 | 599.05 |
| TB9X4EA | Skeleton Key TB | CMeCachin44 | 323.95 | 880.9 | 556.95 |
| TBB61BY | DaSeadogs Midwest Geobash 2025 Trackable | DaSeadogs | 323.95 | 866.7 | 542.75 |
| TBAYPWE | MTCLMBR: E’s WGA 2025-2026 TB Racer | MTCLMBR-E | 42.8 | 524.8 | 482 |
| TBAYA1G | Bud-Weis-Er | Halina23 | 748.13 | 1222.6 | 474.47 |
| TBAFNCJ | Ireland RACER-T | Keymaster007-T | 748.13 | 1132 | 383.87 |
| TBAR51E | WGA Racer 2025-Falcon Flyer | NodaxCache97 | 318.34 | 615 | 296.66 |
| TBAXDQ4 | Fizzy the Fawn – WGA trackable racer for 2025-2026 | DrWho1970 | 786.94 | 1080.8 | 293.86 |
| TBAZB69 | A little nutty | MalekaB | 2090.1 | 2341.3 | 251.2 |
| TBA2Z96 | 25-26 Racer: This is Your Brain on Caching | chevyole | 318.34 | 569.5 | 251.16 |
| TB5HZMF | My Heart Races for You – TB Racer-J | MavWitt – J | 323.95 | 461.6 | 137.65 |
| TBAV1WK | Bear duck | ClintVal22 | 479.9 | 612 | 132.1 |
| TBAZ5VE | Stripey- E | KEANeyedCachers- E | 465.65 | 581 | 115.35 |
| TB91NV9 | 2025/26 WGA Racer – Super Traveler | tdschmidt | 465.65 | 567.4 | 101.75 |
| TBAP78H | The girls rule duck | LostHorseWomen32 | 465.65 | 537 | 71.35 |
| TBAFR5T | Spread the Caching Love WGA TB Race 2025-2026 | scooter2010 | 465.65 | 528.7 | 63.05 |
| TBAV2JM | 𝑆 𝑢 𝑣 𝑤 𝐼 ′ 𝑞 𝐼 𝑗 𝐻 𝑎 ′ 𝑔 ℎ 𝑜 𝑚 | gresha | 479.9 | 534.8 | 54.9 |
| TBAXEMY | Covert racing ducky | COC_BeccaDay | 465.65 | 517.5 | 51.85 |
| TB5YB2V | Wandering Tracks Alaska WGA Racer 2025-2026 | Wandering Tracks | 748.13 | 797.5 | 49.37 |
| TB9N2D2 | Rollie67’s 25/26 Rollin’ Along TB Racer | Rollie67 | 465.65 | 503.5 | 37.85 |
| TB94FF1 | MTCLMBR: 2025-2026 WGA TB Racer | MTCLMBR | 479.9 | 512.6 | 32.7 |
| TBAG052 | Racing Travel “BUG” – S | Keymaster007-S | 479.9 | 512.6 | 32.7 |
2025-2026 Official Rules
Who can enter: WGA members and friends who have signed up on the WGA website
How to enter: Each member or friend can submit 1 official racer (in the event a geocaching team has more than 1 person, each person shall be permitted to submit 1 entry. Entries will be designated as: Team-Dad, Team-Mom, Team-Kid, etc., or whatever geonames differentiate you. Sorry, dogs, cats or other non-humans are ineligible.)
Racers must have zero mileage and be virtually dropped into the WGA Fall Campout (GCAQ3QT) event. Physically your trackable must be at the Fall event, brought by you, brought by your proxy, or given beforehand to a WGA BOD member who will serve as your proxy.
Winner: The travel bug to have the most traveled miles by the 2025 Fall event shall be declared the 1st place winner and their name will appear on the back of the WGA trailer plus receive a WGA Gift certificate valued at $20. The 2nd and 3rd place, determined by 2nd most traveled and 3rd most traveled respectively, will each receive a WGA gift certificate valued at $15 and $10 respectively.
Monthly- our goal is to have monthly race updates posted to the WGA website and Facebook page.
How will the trackables be dropped? Following the Fall event, the racers will be sent off on a road trip and randomly dropped in travel bug hotels over the course of a week or less. Official tracked miles for the travel bug race will start from the starting cache dropped in following the Fall event regardless of which cache it’s dropped in.
How will the mileage be tracked? All miles traveled will count. (Official starting zero will be from the cache they are dropped off in. The distance from the fall event to the drop point will be subtracted from the the final mileage to determine the standings and winners.)
As this is a WGA game, if any questions come up, clarification will be at the discretion of the Board.
The fine print:
Official race end time will be Thursday evening before the next fall campout to allow for final race finisher calculations.
Standings will be by geocaching.com mileage. Each visit and drop, by any cacher will count. What geocaching.com shows as mileage, is what mileage you get (minus adjustment from Fall campout to initial drop point. That milage will be published on wi-geocaching.com so you can monitor your status at any time between official updates.)
You may not move your own or your immediate family member’s trackables. You may move any other racer’s trackables, but no intentional hindering competitor (i.e. purposely putting in a high D/T cache or rarely visited cache).
You may not mail or virtually move your trackable during the race period. Note: Discovered while geocaching – Locationless Cache (GC9FAVE) would be an example of a virtual move due to it being a Locationless Cache type. If your racer gets dropped or dipped into this or another Locationless cache, you will need to delete those logs.
Improperly dipped trackables will be requested to have their logs fixed by the owner. This can happen if people do not log their finds in order. We will notify you if we are made aware of this. Failure to fix the issue can result in disqualification.
Racers can only be held for up to 30 days by a WGA member, and each TB can only be picked up once by a WGA member, otherwise the TB can be disqualified at the board’s discretion.
No proxy re-entries are allowed. If any of your original entries go missing, then their race is finished. After the race ends, you are welcome to send out a proxy to continue as a traditional travel bug.
Awards will be given to top overall 3 mileage finishers. Also, recognition for top number of countries visited and number of cachers who moved a traveler.
Do not forget this is supposed to be a fun and light hearted competition. Anyone not playing by the rules will simply be disqualified. Please ask the WGA Board if you have any questions!
Congratulations to the winners of the
2024-2025 WGA Travel Bug Race!
1st: tdschmidt – Swimming Around the World
2nd: DrWho1970 – Zippy the Zebra
3rd: pixiestix13 – Thor’s Hammer
Most countries visited: 5 – Wandering Tracks’ Racer visited: Canada, France, Portugal, Ireland & Finland
Moved by most geocachers: 9 – oregonjohn1’s Wisconsin Racer Geocoin
Past Winners
Champions get honored by rocking the WGA Trailer
Congratulations to:
2012-13: Beccaday – “Bad Robot!” – 21,560 mi
2013-14: WalkingAdventure – “WGA ‘Happiness Tiki’” – 21,761 mi
2014-15: Val of sweetlife – “Val’s WGA Dragonfly Racer” – 21,967 mi
2015-16: Lacknothing – “Aida” – 26,925 mi
2016-17: labzone – “Labzone’s Lucky 3 Ball” – 31,774 mi
2017-18: Sweetlife – “Keep On Caching” – 15,047 mi
2018-19: tdschmidt – “Skating Around the World” – 20,512 mi
2019-20: jbsp&kids – “Speedy” the Travel Bug Racer – 9,677 mi
2020-21: kalkranz – UNIT Racer – 4,540 mi
2021-22: Lacknothing – RubyOle – 13,795 mi
2022-23: ProfessorLeisure – Mystery Racer – 18,110 mi
2023-24: Gypsyseeker – Shakes The Skeleton Travel Tag – 34,086 mi
2024-25: tdschmidt – Swimming Around the World – S – 65,809.7 mi
Last update: 2026/02/18