Destination Afghanistan II Travel Bug

While attending the 1st Annual Jackson Area GeoRace/Challenge, Tiger130 handed me a travel bug, Destination Afghanistan II since everyone knew I would be deploying to the Middle East in a few months. I informed the travel bug owner of my pending deployment and asked me to hold onto the bug and take it to Kuwait. Generally, travel bugs should only be held for about 2 weeks. While in Texas, I dropped and picked up the bug in a cache to give the bug 1.047 miles and another state. A few days before I was scheduled to depart, I was held back for a medical condition and I handed the bug to soldiermama and she took it to Kuwait and once I arrived in theater, I grabbed the bug from her. I dropped the bug in Mr. Mister, probably the safest cache in regard to muggle raiding. Airroster took the bug to a cache at Ali Al Salem for a better chance of reaching the final destination. Ali Al Salem in the entry and exit point for many service members that rotate to Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan and other countries in the region.

I am happy to report that on June 8, 2010, the travel bug made it to it's destination, a cache called Dragon Village in Afghanistan. Since then the bug has been bouncing from cache to cache in the war zone.

WRC & Bingo

In 2008, I begun to work on caches for the Well Rounded Tennessee Cacher and needed around 17 finds for all the category grid. Two years later, I have knocked that number down to nine. With four of those finds during this year 2010, even though I have been busy with military matters. I have plans to complete the requirements for Tennessee and Missouri WRC sometime in the year 2011. I think one of the most difficult parts, in regard to the Missouri WRC, will be finding a cache that was hidden in the year 2000. I do have a bookmark of caches on my target list.

Came across an interesting challenge using the game of Bingo, a cache by jeffbouldin. I already see I have completed the vertical and horizontal cards for this cache and debating, do I want to go after all three cards? The last being the diagonal. I do need a 4.5 Difficulty and 4.5 Terrain to master this and I only need Protector of the Great War cache by JoGPS.