The Race is On...

The Terrible Ts' Race Car

In Geocaching I talked a little about trackables.Trackables, and more specifically, travel "bugs" are (usually) small items with a tracking number on them that travel from cache to cache and their travels are logged on line at trackables on the geocaching website.

A travel bug doesn't have to be left in caches, it can be "dipped" in and continued on. That way the distance between the different caches is logged and the travel bug builds up mileage.

Which brings me to the race, Summer Vacation Travel Race.

Each of us has a travel bug. Ours is pictured up above. We will spend the time between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend dipping our travel bug in every cache we find. The team with the most miles at the end of the race wins. What does the winner receive? Aside from the opportunity to be in charge of next year's race? Who knows? Bragging rights, I guess.

The link to follow the current race results is here: TB-run
We are the "Terrible Ts". The race starts today, so far we have no miles.

Our trip this weekend will get us off to a good start. We'll be dipping the little car in caches up and down Whidbey and Camano Islands. We have plans for traveling the state for another challenge later this summer. I don't know if we'll win, but we'll have a lot of fun trying.