Most Mileage on a Travel Bug

[hogrod]

I started the other topic about missing travel bugs and decided to also ask, whats the most mileage you have on one of your travel bugs?

My first travel bug has been going strong for 3.5years and as of right now has 23688.9miles on it. most of the mileage is recent with trips to Iraq and back. I should thank Cachew for being the first person to grab my TB when it was new and starting it out on its adventure.
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=127459

I also wanted to post my favorite picture of this travel bug. Part of its goal is to try and get its picture taken with the real thing, well this guy found one almost identical!
http://img.geocaching.com/track/log/8c719950-b30e-4b76-b3df-2ebdc115e101.jpg

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

TDSKids Tribute to space engineers Coin is our highest at just under 6900. It’s mission has been completed and is back with us.

The diabetes TB we started “Brzeg, Poland” Unite for Diabetes Travel Bug now has 18647 miles on it. It has not been to Poland yet.

[hogrod]

thanks for the reply, glad to see other peoples bugs getting some mileage too!

I also have a geocoin that has also been going for as long as that travel bug and has almost 16,000 miles on it now. http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=157066

[LMcGisme]

I have a TB, Prancin’ Pony that has 19,182 miles on it. I started it off near home, then dropped it in a cache in Thailand. From there it made its way back to a cache only 10 miles from home. Around the world in 6 months! Unfortunately it was then taken to California where it promptly disappeared. I really hope that some day I can mention this TB as one that was missing for years, only to resurface again.

The most miles one of my currently moving TBs has is 8,145.

[LightningBugs Mum]

My Caught Red Handed coin has visited five countries and gone 23,426 miles over the course of 2 1/2 years.

I hope I haven’t jinxed it now.

[Miata]

My one and only travel bug named Ozzy is retired and sitting on my computer monitor. He logged 14231.9mi. He sat on a mountain in Colorado for the winter, then went to Hawaii, saw the Grand Canyon, and even went to New York after 911 if I remember right.

I wish that I traveled as much! 😳

[rogheff]

I’ve got one with 14,000 miles currently in Germany. A “caching without borders” geocoin with 10,000 miles recently went missing.

[labrat_wr]

In the spring of ’07 I sent out 3 TBs, motorcycle keychains, Easy Rider #1,#2, and #3. These had set out to make more miles than the others.

#1 started in Oshkosh, had a major setback in Colorado as only the tag was recovered by a cacher who contacted me about it. I sent a replacement Cycle and it was off again. now currently in a cachers hands in Louisiana, it may be heading to Pennsylvania soon.
Current mileage: 4357.5

#2 started in Oshkosh, went south to Illinois for a bit and then overseas to France. It disappeared for a while and turned up near Frankfort,Germany. now with a cacher in Niedersachsen.
Current mileage: 4945.7

#3 started in Oshkosh, disappeared for two months from the first cache it was moved to. Turned up in September and moved to Pennsylvania, to Maryland, back to Pennsylvania. Next move to Florida and then it went over to the United Kingdom.
Current mileage: 6739.7

Total race mileage thus far: 16042.9

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[hogrod]

@LightningBugs Mum wrote:

My Caught Red Handed coin has visited five countries and gone 23,426 miles over the course of 2 1/2 years.

I hope I haven’t jinxed it now.

I was thinking the same thing when I started this topic but decided if it went lost it was probably meant to anyway

[bugsmasher69]

I have one geocoin that has 26,278 miles on it and has been to south africa, australia and is now in the united kingdom and I have eight other coins that have between 10,000 and 21,000 miles and a whole bunch more that are pushing the 10,000 mile mark.

[bugsmasher69]

On a side note I have 317 coins out and approximatly one third of them are missing. 28 of them disapeared from the first caches they were put in and have no miles on them.

[pharmteamK]

Two of our oldest TB’s are back with us watching me log, but Larry Ladybug TB71FF has been traveling since March 2003, visited several continents traveling 38,751 miles and even collected the pictures with flowers that we requested. He had been in a VERY difficult German cache GC170VX that was location locked/archived but the owner retrieved him and he is back out traveling. That is one cache we would not have attempted!!

[JimandLinda]

As of 9-1-08,The Red Baron’s Last Ride TB, launched in New Zealand in March ’05, is just shy of 50,000 miles! It is in cache GC1EAFB, St Cloud Park Cache. It has completed it’s mission and has been sent back out traveling. Not bad for 3 1/2 years. It is ref.#TBEF51.
We enjoy seeing where these TB’s have been, especially the pix. It helps us plan what caches to highlight on our roadtrips.
We sent a few out in spring, but the newbies don’t know how to log them… but that’s another subject.

[Grandma & Grandpa]

Grandma’s Chevelle TB has over 14,000 miles on it, and it’s still going. My canoe TB was turned loose at the same time, but it disappeared with less than 500 miles on it.

But one of our school TB’s that went out about a year ago has over 26,000 on it already. That’s the mileage leader from that batch of 60. At the other end of the TB spectrum, 3 of the school TB’s from that group lasted a week, and got muggled with 12 miles on them!

We’ll be starting to send out another 60 from school in the next few weeks. Hopefully we’ll have some more good stories to tell.

cYa, Grandma & Grandpa and the SetonCachers kids

[Mathman]

WE have many coins out traveling. One has 10,000 miles on it and another “World Traveler” coin has over 14,000 miles on it and in AZ. It was just dropped in a cache 5 days ago and then 2 days later the cache has gone missing! DRAT!

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