2024-2025 WGA Travel Bug Race
The 2024-2025 race wrapped up on September 18 and winners announced at the WGA fall picnic. Watch for the racers for 2025-2026 to be posted soon!
It was a busy final month of the race with 14 racers adding miles.
A few racers had been stalled for several months started their end of race sprint:
- TB928V4 Ben Travel Flag Wisconsin Racer cluehunter added 2540 miles in the final month
- TB9X3GM jodibee’s Packarette Racer 2024/2025 jodibeeadded 2238 miles in the final month
Racers that moved the most in the final month:
- TB9FFXV Thor’s Hammer – WGA 2024-2025 Race pixiestix13 added 16,528.3 miles
- TBAQ01Z Bouquet of Roses for Rose RainbowRachAndCo added 17,430.5 miles
- TBAW6XE Zippy the Zebra – WGA 2024-2025 Racer DrWho1970 added 29,801.58 miles
Final standings are listed below and use the TB code to check on more details of any racer at www.geocaching.com/track
2024-2025 Final Race Standings
| TB Code | Racer | Owner | Starting Miles | Current Miles | Race Miles |
| TBAHNM3 | 2024/25 WGA Racer – Swimming Around the World – S | tdschmidt | 1196.2 | 67005.9 | 65809.7 |
| TBAW6XE | Zippy the Zebra – WGA 2024-2025 TB Racer – F | DrWho1970 | 1154.3 | 61201.58 | 60047.28 |
| TB9FFXV | Thor’s Hammer – WGA 2024-2025 Race | pixiestix13 | 415.1 | 47730.2 | 47315.1 |
| TBAQ01Z | Bouquet of Roses for Rose | Rainbow Rach & Co. | 252.1 | 40537.8 | 40285.7 |
| TBAV0YE | Jax Jax the Star Man – WGA 2024-2025 TB Racer – S | DrWho1970 | 415.1 | 40037.8 | 39622.7 |
| TBAHK06 | Go Speed Racer WGA TB Race 2024-2025 | scooter2010 | 415.1 | 34291 | 33875.9 |
| TBAP0H0 | Moooo ving 24 25 WGA TB racer | Keymaster007 | 1114.9 | 31987.3 | 30872.4 |
| TBACEPF | Bugs Bunny Racer | NeenahGeo | 415.1 | 20171.6 | 20171.6 |
| TBAPZTM | J&L’s Stealing Hearts Racer | JimandLinda | 415.1 | 20219.3 | 19804.2 |
| TBAQB32 | Tom the Turtle GeoPets Tag Racer | cluehunter | 252.1 | 18469.9 | 18217.8 |
| TBPW5A | Wisconsin Racer Geocoin | oregonjohn1 | 786.7 | 12838.8 | 12052.1 |
| TB86X85 | Wandering Tracks WGA Racer 2024-25 | Wandering Tracks | 624.7 | 11998.6 | 11373.9 |
| TB84F0Y | Elephant Duck Racer | mavwitt | 786.7 | 7147.8 | 6361.1 |
| TB9X3A1 | Bentley Traveler | doublearon81 | 1154.3 | 6765.1 | 5610.8 |
| TB11ANP | Just another wacky racer | Dale_and_Acre | 1026.6 | 5328.5 | 4301.9 |
| TB9X3GM | jodibee’s Packarette RACER 2024/2025 | jodibee | 252.1 | 4096.2 | 3844.1 |
| TBAB5GK | Booker’s travelbug racer | 2 book lovers | 445 | 4140 | 3695 |
| TB928V4 | Ben Travel Flag Wisconsin Racer | cluehunter | 1092.8 | 4053.5 | 2960.7 |
| TB6M42K | Slow and Steady Wins the Race! | Alice_in_Wanderland_ | 1080.5 | 3471.7 | 2391.2 |
| TBAHNN5 | 2024/25 WGA Racer – Donut Keep Me – C | tdschmidt | 624.7 | 2609.2 | 1984.5 |
| TB9XDYD | Spongebob Racing Trackable | NodaxCache97 | 1196.2 | 2317.7 | 1121.5 |
| TB9G537 | Signals Racer WGA Tb 24 25 – MRK | Keymaster007 | 1196.2 | 2211.3 | 1015.1 |
| TBA4MYN | RACING for MILES – Fondue4two Holiday Travel Bug Snow Globe Tag | fondue4two | 1114.9 | 1992.3 | 877.4 |
| TBANW2E | Chameleon Duck | Forkycache | 1196.2 | 1810.7 | 614.5 |
| TBACEJ6 | Eat Sleep Cache Tag | COC_BeccaDay | 1114.9 | 1517.6 | 402.7 |
| TB8JRAE | Harold’s Purple Crayon | CMeCachin44 | 1196.2 | 1469.6 | 273.4 |
| TBA5BKH | Fueling Up for the Race | buttersfamily89 | 1114.9 | 1129.6 | 14.7 |
| TBA555H | Woggle Racer | rollie67 | 1145.3 | 1145.3 | 0 |
| TB9G92C | Keys to the Kingdom RACING for MILES | Mrs_Sleuth | 1080.5 | 1080.5 | 0 |
| TBAC9Y1 | WIN THE RACE. (or spread a worldwide virus) – MSK | ferret101 | 1080.5 | 1080.5 | 0 |
| TB4K4MB | Taratula Racer | bigjim60 | 252.1 | 252.1 | 0 |
| TBANVP5 | Triforce the Gecko | triforce66 | 1154.3 | 1154.3 | 0 |
| TBABGA7 | Lostcheq’s Community Volunteer Tag RACER | lostcheq | 619.1 | 619.1 | 0 |
2024-2025 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.
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: 2025/09/18