Final Update!

The 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race came to crescendo of excitement (okay, slight exageration...) at EMcache's 2nd Birthday Bash! as everyone wondered if a race TB would arrive at the last second to snatch one of the podium positions. As it turned out, only three of the race entries made it to the finishing event, but considering the number of TBs and Geocoins that are stolen these days, it was a good finishing percentage.


The delighted winners were;


1st; niknrich's EMcache Racer: Nosey Pup. Nik chose an Original Can of Beans Geocoin as winner's prize.

2nd; ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the Monkey (formerly Itchys' Crown Jewels). Geohunter-X chose a Discover Your World geocoin on Itchy's behalf.

3rd; uk89camaro - Emcache Racer - Piston head Pete and co-pilot Dave, who is 'armless. Uk89camaro received a Help For Heroes geocoin as his prize.

A consolation prize of a Racer Travel Tag was awarded to lgxkls for John's stegasaurus, which (as a triceratops)
was muggled almost immediately and it's replacement only covered 376.2 miles and never left the UK, or, in fact, the Southern half of England!


Here's a final UK counties visited map:

The final five counties added are Cheshire, Gwynedd, Northumberland, Pembrokeshire and West Sussex.

These five additional counties, when added to Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Dorset, East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Gwent, Hampshire, NHereford & Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, The Highland Region, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Strathclyde Region, Surrey, Tyne & Wear, Warwickshire, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire, make a total of 41 UK counties visited. Pretty good going, I would say.

So, that's all folks until the 2nd EmCache TB Race, whenever that may be. In the meantime, check out The Great Travel Bug Knockout for all your TB racing needs!

Update! John's stegasaurus moves up 1 place

With only 32 hours or so to go, lgxkls' John's stegasaurus Travel Bug has been placed into this Hampshire cache, adding 105.6 miles to it's race distance, sufficient to move it into 18th place overall, ahead of the muggled Katie 2000's Needles TB.

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Update! Rabbit retrieved by Toad

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug has been picked-up by South-Eastern cacher Good Toad and JohnnyBGoode's You want fries with that? TB has been placed into this New Hampshire cache, adding 16.2 miles to it's distance travelled.

Scroll down to bottom of this page for latest race placings. I.H.O. means In The Hands Of the named cacher. One * after a TB's milage shows that it is currently overseas, two ** shows that it has travelled overseas and returned to the UK.

Geohunter-X helps SPANK, the Monkey

EmCache member, and fellow race entrant, Geohunter-X has grabbed ITCHYthirdEYE's Travel Bug (luckily for Itchy, his original hitchhiker was removed or geohunter-x would be grabbing his Jewels!) and dipped him here, here, here, here, here and here, before finally placing SPANK into the finishing event cache, adding 55 miles and making him the 3rd entry home in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache TB Race.

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Will LOUIS' VROOM VROOM make it overseas after all?

Cacher Pieman has placed Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB into this cache, adding 12.3 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Do we have The Winner in the clubhouse?

Niknrich have placed their Nosey Pup Travel Bug into The 2009 /2010 EmCache TB Race finish Event, adding a final 35 miles to Nosey's race distance.

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper TB has been placed into this Halloweenesque multi-cache in Kent, adding 11.4 miles to it's distance travelled.

Finally, oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery TB has been collected from the Spanish Mega by Finnish cachers OMO cachers.

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Just over a week to go!

With barely a week to go in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache TB Race, some moves are still being made;

Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh TB has been retrieved by American cacher diefenbaker.

lgxkls' Karon's Promise TB has been placed into this Pembrokeshire cache, adding 95.3 miles to it's distance travelled.

Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB was placed into this German cache, adding 25.5 miles to it's race distance, and then was immediately retrieved by cacher blubalu.

And finally, The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben Geocoin has reappeared, cacher jayteecee taking more than 4 months to move it 10.7 miles to this Kent cache.

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Cachehopper goes by NarrowBoat

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug has been retrieved by cachers Team NarrowBoat.

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Going to this weekend's Spanish Mega? Pat is!

French cacher buckfast has dropped oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery TB into this weekend's Catalan Mega Event, adding 164.2 miles to his distance travelled, sufficient to steal 13th place from Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug.

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...and again!

A short stay for peachleaf's geocoin, as it has already been retrieved by German cacher Nur-der-Fahrer.

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Peachleaf's geocoin still moving

Peachleaf's geocoin may still make it back from Germany in time to make it to the finishing event cache, having just been placed into this cache, 146.2 miles closer to The Finishing Line.

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And again...

German cacher amorphis-fan has retrieved Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB.

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Another example of no sooner do I update than...

...another move is made! In this case, just a short move of 2.8 miles for The-Black-Angel's Definitive GeoCoin which ANDY&EVE placed into this Northumberland multi.

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Just over two weeks to go...

With only 16 days to go until the Event Cache finale of the 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race, here are some updated moves;

Australian cacher deaning placed Garland Gang's JACKO TB into his own Towering Heights cache, from where it was collected by cacher GR8T who subsequently placed JACKO into this Australian cache. These moves have added 100.5 miles to JACKO's distance travelled.

Cachers DragonsWest have dropped greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog into this Californian cache, adding 136.6 miles. Check out this evocative photo.

JohnnyBGoode's You want fries with that? TB was retrieved from the New Hampshire cache that it was resting in by cacher cknh who passed it on to more active cacher Hillgrove.

ITCHYthirdEYE has retrieved his own SPANK, the Monkey TB from Not for the Faint Hearted and then dipped SPANK into his own Itchys' Alternatives - Bargain Bucket, adding 8.7 miles to it's distance travelled.

UK89camaro has retrieved his Piston head Pete (and Dave!) Travel Bug from last month's EmCache Event Cache and logged him into the EmCache 2nd Birthday Event, i.e. The Finishing Line, adding 6.4 miles to make a total distance travelled of 2673.6 miles, 18 caches visited in 6 UK counties and 2 overseas countries, whilst in the hands of 13 cachers, excluding Discovereds.

Cacher Miniature Hero has placed RascalGaskells' Cachehopper TB into this cache, published 2 days ago, but so-far unfound, adding 9.3 miles to it's distance travelled.

German cacher Blauber has placed Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug into this German cache, adding 450.4 miles to it's distance travelled.

Good news for oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery Travel Bug at last, as he has been picked up by French cacher buckfast who has dipped Pat into this French cache, not only adding 604.7 miles to Pat's distance travelled, but also adding the much-coveted Overseas Travel asterisk. Now, can Pat get back to the UK in the next 16 days?! BTW, is anyone besides myself amused by the fact that a Frenchman would name himself after notorious Devon tonic wine, tipple of choice for Scots teenagers?

Finally, Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB has been retrieved from Bream Dream by cacher Pieman.

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The Finishing Post has been erected!

EmCache's 2nd Birthday Event Cache has been published. This Event, on October 19th, is the finishing line for the 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race. To be classed as a finisher in The Race an entry must be present at the Event Cache.

Due to this, after a suggestion from uk89camaro, I have listed above the current race positions, based on distance travelled, the entries that have so far been logged into the Event, and can therefore be considered to be "In The Clubhouse".

Update! Making sense of it all (or: Why don't cachers log trackables correctly!!??)

Quite a few moves to catch up on, and I don't have all the information that I need, but as it's getting close to the end of the race, I've decided to try to put together a chronology for a couple of entries as best as I could;

Firstly; Good news for ITCHYthirdEYE, whose SPANK, the Monkey was apparently retrieved from Ellisha Says Geocoins Only by mr. meagi, who hasn't logged a find since May. I've emailed to ask him about SPANK, but have not yet received a reply. SPANK next turned up in one of mr. meagi's caches, from where it was collected by cacher Mangled99, who placed him in a cache at a busy railway station. So busy, in fact, that SPANK was collected the very same day by East Midlands cacher arewethereyet??. The result of all this is the additional of 30.8 miles to it's distance travelled.

Another entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race to miraculously transport itself from one cache to another is lgxkls' Karon's Promise Travel Bug, which turned up in this Welsh cache, 119.3 miles from where it should be in West Yorkshire! Karon's Promise has since been retrieved by Gloucestershire cachers Bredon Marshions. If any previously unrecorded moves turn up, additional milage can be inserted.

Much simpler is that peachleaf's GeoCoin was retrieved from the cache that it was resting in by ice-skating cacher skaterli, who placed into this puzzle cache, adding 326 miles to it's distance travelled. It has since been retrieved by Munich-based cachers MuenchnerKindl.

Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! continues it's gentle meander around Northwich by visiting this cache, barely a mile-and-a-half from where it retrieved from a week previously by stavvy.

American cacher f1shheadjr is now fishheadjr, and has placed Johnny B. Goode's You want fries with that? TB into this cache in New Hampshire, adding 115.5 miles to it's distance. Johnny's Travel Bug has now visited 6 different U.S. states.

Finally, cachers DragonsWest have gone on a mini dipping frenzy with greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog Adventure Guide, visiting an Earthcache, a CITO, a virtual cache and an event cache, adding a total of 146.8 miles to the little green fellow's milage.

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Update! Pat gets a GUIDING LIGHT

oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery Travel Bug has been placed into this Buckinghamshire cache, adding 33.4 miles to it's race distance, and, in other news, Garland Gang's JACKO TB has been retrieved from The Godfather by cacher deaning, who hasn't logged a find for 5½ years!

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Update! Peachleaf's coin on the move again

Cacher jukameda has placed peachleaf's GeoCoin into this German cache, adding 40.3 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Horsey Neigh Neigh (slightly) closer to home

American cacher tsknmcn dipped Geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh Travel Bug into this cache, before placing it into this one, adding 371.3 miles to it's distance travelled, moving the equine bug up into 6th place overall in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race.

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Update! Mobile home

Johnny B.Goode's You want fries with that? Travel Bug has been retrieved by cacher F1shheadjr, and uk89camaro has retrieved his own Piston head Pete TB from The UK's 100th Geocaching Event and placed it into this upcoming event cache, adding 10.8 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Multi-update; 1 drop & 5 retrievals

Firstly, Good Luck to JustAlan and Geohunter-x, new admin team at EmCache!

Now, to the update; Johnny B.Goode's You want fries with that? Travel Bug has been dropped into this cache in Massachusetts, U.S.A., adding 20.3 miles to it's total distance travelled.

No less than 5 entries in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race have been retrieved by cachers;
Geohunter-x's Horsey Neigh Neigh Travel Bug has been picked up by cacher tsknmcn after a long stop-off in an inactive Stargate.

Peachleaf's Definitive GeoCoin has been snagged by cacher jukameda, after an equally long rest in a German multi-cache.

On the other hand, lgxkls' John's stegasaurus TB spent less than a week in a cache in Essex before being lifted by cacher FantasticCat.

Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug has been grabbed by cacher Blaubeer, who claims that it is now "back in Germany".

Finally, Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB has been retrieved by cacher stavvy.

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Update! Activity for 2nd & 3rd placed Bugs

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO has been collected from the Australian cache that he was resting in by cacher iluvtrekking and, the same day, placed in this cache 25.7 miles away.

Meanwhile, 3rd place TB, greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog has been retrieved from Tiki Travel Bug Spa by American cachers DragonsWest.

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Update! A place change

Cacher connie159 has placed lgxkls' John's stegasaurus into this Essex cache, adding 69.1 miles to it's race distance, enough to allow it to surge past Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! into 19th place overall in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race.

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Update! Playing catch-up

Sorry for the lack of updates this week, so hold-on to your hats, here we go:
Mrs. Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin has been retrieved from Hawaii by Italian cacher bernardi, who claims that the coin is back in Europe. Speaking of Mrs. Web Rat, hubby Tim has changed his GC.Com i.d. to The-Black-Angel, hence his entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race is now known as The-Black-Angel's emCache Racer.
Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB has been placed into this Cheshire cache, adding 3½ miles to it's distance travelled.
Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB has been placed into this Danish cache, adding 88.2 miles to it's distance travelled.
Finally, lgxkls' John's stegasaurus has been picked-up from the cache that it was resting in by Home-Counties based cacher connie159.

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Update! Garland Gang dominating the updates again

Yorkshire-based cachers Hutchinfamily have retrieved Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug from the cache that it was resting in.

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Update! JACKO's in Denmark (the one where they say G'Day!)

American cacher danicadilly has dropped Garland Gang's JACKO TB into this cache in Denmark, Western Australia, adding 3166.1 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Vroom Vroom away!

Cacher jampop has placed Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug into this Cheshire cache, adding 6 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! John's stegasaurus visits a dinosaur of a cache

Lgxkls' John's stegasaurus Travel Bug has been placed into one of Britain's oldest caches, adding a mile to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Retrieve! Retrieve! Retrieve!

No less than three entries in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race have been retrieved from the caches that they were residing in;
Johnny B. Goode's You want fries with that? TB has been picked up by veteran cacher CyberChemist, Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB has been collected by keen newbie jampop, and lgxkls' John's stegasaurus TB has been rescued (after more than 2 months in the same cache) by TeamCompton4.

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Update! No sooner had I updated than...

...Holiday Bug was retrieved by Danish cacher Geocach Rosa!

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Update! Holiday Bug not sunk yet

Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug Travel Bug has been placed into this multi-cache in South-Western Denmark, adding over 450 miles to it's distance travelled and moving it up 3 places in the rankings for The 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race.

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Update! A little catch-up

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO has been retrieved by occassional cacher danicadilly.

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper has been grabbed from Unknown Hero by Miniature Hero.

The Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin has been retrieved from The Root Of It by newbie cachers ANDY&EVE.

Finally, Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug has been placed into this Cheshire cache, adding 2.6 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Mrs Web Rat's geocoin goes up in the world!

Hawaii-based cacher GeoGerms has retrieved Mrs Web Rat's EmCache Racer GeoCoin and moved it to his own 3100-ft high cache K1 or K2 ????, dipping it into this cache on the way, adding a total of 1.6 miles to it's distance.

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Update! Johnny B. Goode's TB continues American tour

Cacher ritell has placed Johnny B. Goode's You want fries with that? Travel Bug into this Rhode Island cache, adding 30 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Who was that masked man?!

RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug has been retrieved by erm... someone heroic from Kent.

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Update! A promising move for Karon's Travel Bug?

Cacher Quackcracker has placed lgxkls' Karon's Promise TB into this West Yorkshire cache, adding 15.2 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! Is JACKO All -Black?

Cacher fletch182 made good on her promise to take Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug to the Antipodes when she placed him in this New Zealand cache, more than doubling JACKO's total distance covered to 12245.9 miles, enough to give him 2nd place overall in the race placings.

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Update! Spa break for Greedy Green Frog

Greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog Adventure Guide, currently in 2nd place in The 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race, has been placed into this cache, adding 15.4 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! Another house move

U.S. cacher IrishFlyFisher dropped Johnny B.Goode's You want fries with that? Travel Bug into this Connecticut cache, adding 23.3 miles to it's distance travelled, and from where it has been retrieved by cacher ritell.

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Update! Cachehopper hops into a Crater

Cachers the_roys have placed RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug into this cache, adding 24.8 miles to it's distance hopped.

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Update! Involuntary acupuncture for Greedy Green Frog?

Enthusiastic newbie cacher voodoofun (456 finds in three months!) has retrieved greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog from the Alien Mother Ship.

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Update! One entrant visited the Mega (but not the UK Mega!)

German cacher schnelleharry placed Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB into this German pseudo-mega in The Black Forest, from where it was quickly retrieved by cacher hampf, who is threatenening to return it to the UK shortly.

In other news, U.S. cacher ProTechCC placed greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog into his own Alien Mother Ship, adding 6.6 miles to it's total race distance.

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Update! Strange green guy retrieved Greedy Green Frog

Greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog EmCache Racer has been retrieved by California-based cacher ProTechCC.

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Update! Johnny B.Goode's TB duckwalking again

After a brief overnight stay in What... Summer School !?!, Johnny B. Goode's You want fries with that? Travel Bug has been retrieved by experienced Rhode Island based cacher IrishFlyFisher.

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Update! Take the top 6 and shuffle them up a little...

The top 6 placings in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race have been shuffled a little, with greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog having been placed into this Californian cache, between San Jose and Santa Cruz, adding 6145.3 miles to it's distance travelled, and pushing it up to 2nd place overall.

Also moving up within the top 6 is Johnny B. Goode's You want fries with that? Travel Bug, now up into 4th place thanks to a move of 413.1 miles into this Connecticut cache.

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Update! Pat, the 2009/2010 EmCache Hide'n'Seek Champion

Oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery Travel Bug continues his eratic progress in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race by disappearing from a cache in Scotland in May and reappearing two months later in a cache in Twickenham, some 453.1 miles away! After email correspondence with various cachers it turns out that a muggle picked Pat up when she visited the cache that he was resting in with a caching friend. She has now registered with GC.com and dropped Pat into this cache, from where it was retrieved by cacher Mart9012. As a result of this, Pat has now travelled 853.3 miles, putting him into the lead of the UK-only section of the race.

In other news, a cacher has reported Ellisha Says Geocoins Only to be containing no trackables. Unfortunately ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the Monkey TB should be present in this cache...

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Update! Greedy Green Frog hasn't croaked yet

Despite a cacher recently being unable to find the Italian cache that it was resting in, greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog has been successfully retrieved by California-based cachers Cats Out Walking, who are now threatening to take the little green beasty to San Francisco with them.

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Update! Cachehopper... is faster... than... you!

Finally an update to report, as cacher LVT placed RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug into this cache, adding 48.5 miles to it's race distance. It was picked up almost immediately by the_roys who moved ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the Monkey along early last month.

In other news, despite there still being 3 months left in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race, one entrant has posted a message pleading for a cacher to move his Travel Bug along!

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Update! JACKO goes for a dip

It's gone a little quiet for entries in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race, just a dip into this cache for Garland Gang's JACKO TB, adding 0.3 miles to his distance travelled, to report.

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Update! Mrs Web Rat has her hula skirt on!

Cacher Webersh has placed Mrs. Web Rat's GeoCoin into this Hawaiian cache near Honolulu on Oahu Island. This move has added 3451.3 miles to the coin's distance, enabling it to easily leap into second place overall in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race. Even if this coin doesn't win, it's certainly visited some interesting places!

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Update! One TB moves on, one TB wanders off

Cacher DJ'sTrek placed Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug into this American cache, from where it was promptly collected by the Cache Owner who is planning to take JACKO to The Antipodes next month.

In other news, the Cache Owner of Z Z Z Z Z Z Z has confirmed that the cache and all of it's contents has gone missing, unfortunately including Sukygoeswandering's From Leicestershire With Love TB.

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Update! The Fast Fish is flyin'

German cacher Ganita placed my own Emo the Fast Fish Travel Bug into this German cache, North-West of Hamburg, adding 1098.6 miles to Emo's race distance. The Fast Fish has since been retrieved by Berlin-based cacher Eric_1970.

A second entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race retrieved by a German cacher is Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB, picked up by schnelleharry. Can schnelleharry live up to his name?

In other news, the owner of the cache containing SukyLugoeswandering's From Leicestershire with Love TB has reported a possible muggling of the cache. Hopefully everything will prove to be a-okay!

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Update! LOUIS' VROOM VROOMless

Cheshire cacher BIG ISH (I wonder if his surname is Sellers?) has retrieved Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug from Step into Cheshire - Dairyhouse Meadow.

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Update! Nosey Pup sets the target distance

Niknrich have retrieved their own Nosey Pup Travel Bug from EMcamp 2010 and are planning to rest him until the TB Race finale event cache. Nosey Pup's current distance travelled is 26051.3 miles, so that's the target to beat with roughly 15 weeks still to go.

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Update! Cachehopper on the move

Kent cacher LVT has picked up RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug and is intending to place in Kent.

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Update! JACKO back from the grave

American cacher DJ'sTrek has retrieved Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug from Ski Graveyard.

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Update! Karon's Promise goes Quackers

Harrogate-based cacher Quackcracker has retrieved lgxkls' Karon's Promise Trave Bug from the West Yorkshire cacher that it was (briefly) resting in.

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Update! A missed log

American cacher enduroryda retrieved JohnnyBGoode's You Want Fries With That? TB from his own Sympathy From The Devil cache today. Apparently it was dropped there by cachers Grand Illusion Crew, who originally logged the Bug out of The Christmas Tree # 1, but then logged it back in again. This equates to an additional 409.2 miles added to You want fries with that?'s milage, enough to leapfrog it into 4th place overall.

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Update! 2 entries placed in caches, 1 marked missing

Cacher Walker Dan has placed The Web Rat's Geocoin into this cache, adding a new county, Northumberland, to the map of counties visited by entries in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race, and also adding 128.6 miles to it's distance travelled.

A second entry placed in a cache is Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!!, which is now in this Cheshire cache, having added 23.5 miles to it's distance Vroomed, sufficient to pass lgxkls' John's stegasaurus in the overall race placings.

Finally for now, uk89camaro has marked his German Geocoin as missing, before it has even logged a mile travelled.

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Update! Nosey Pup extends it's lead *yawn*

Yes, 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race leader niknrich's Nosey Pup TB has increased it's race lead again! This time cacher Norfolkbirder has placed Nosey into this event cache organised by the Pup's owners, niknrich, adding 77.1 miles to it's race distance.

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Update! Karon's Promise visits West Yorkshire

Cachers Barry'n'Shirley have placed lgxkls' Karon's Promise Travel Bug into this cache, adding 189.2 miles to it's distance travelled, extending it's lead in the UK-only class of the 2009/2010 EmCache TB race.

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Update! A rabbit goes to the Sheep Fair

Cacher NuJerico has placed RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug into this West Sussex cache, adding 26.7 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! JACKO is in the Graveyard

American cacher cornerofsky has placed Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug into his own cache near Enumclaw, east of Tacoma, Washington in the USA, adding 401 miles to it's race distance, enough to push JACKO up into 2nd place overall in the race standings.

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Update! Nosey Pup passes 25000 miles raced mark

Cacher Norfolkbirder dipped niknrich's Nosey Pup Travel Bug in this Norfolk cache to mark it's return from Canada, bringing the too-cute canine's total distance travelled to 25974.2 miles!

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Update! Deja vu all over again for peachleaf

German cacher Krue has placed peachleaf's Definitive GeoCoin into this multi-cache, which is the same cache that the coin spent a night in in March! This move has added a grand total of 0.3 miles to it's total distance covered.

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Update! Holiday Bug camps in a multi-cache

German cacher Asa has placed Lucky Lottie's Holiday Bug TB in this multi-cache, adding 5.6 miles to it's total distance travelled in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race.

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Update! Cachehopper retrieved already

Cacher NuJerico has already retrieved RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug from A real test by the Explorer the very next day after it was placed there.

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Update! RascalGaskells back in the Top 10

Natterjacktoad placed RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug into this Hampshire cache today, adding 160.5 miles to it's distance travelled, enabling it to hop ahead of uk89camaro's entry into 10th place overall in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race.

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Update! Mrs Web Rat's geocoin retrieved

After having a good look at Mt Rushmore, Mrs Web Rat's Emcache Racer Geocoin has been picked up by cacher Webersh.

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Update! Emo swims the Med

My own Emo the Fast Fish Travel Bug has been retrieved from Ibiza by German cacher Ganita, who is taking him to Germany.

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Update! Barry'n'Shirley make off with Karon's Promise

Lgxkls' Karon's Promise Travel Bug has been retrieved from UK Mega Series 094 by North Yorkshire-based cachers Barry'n'Shirley.

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Update! Emo the Fast Fish stretches his fins

My own Emo the Fast Fish EmCache Racer Travel Bug has been placed into this cache on the Balearic Island of Ibiza, adding 958 miles to his total distance travelled, sufficient to move Emo up into a top 12 race position.

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Update! Mrs Web Rat's coin moves over 500 miles

Cacher Deisel123 has placed Mrs. Web Rat's GeoCoin in this cache in South Dakota, close to Mount Rushmore, adding 503.9 miles to it's distance travelled which moves it one position up the race rankings.

In other news, German cacher Krue has confirmed that he has possession of peachleaf's geocoin, last seen in his own now-archived Dorsten ! cache.

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Update! Two retrievals and a placement

Northumberland cacher Walker Dan has retrieved The Web Rat's GeoCoin from Sailor's Grave and U.S. cachers cornerofsky have picked-up Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug from the Canadian cache that it was residing in.

Amusingly Sukygoeswandering's From Leicestershire With Love TB has been placed into this TB Hotel, the same one that Johnny B.Goode's You Want Fries With That? TB spent one night in last month!

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Update! JACKO squeezes into 3rd place

Canadian cachers TheRacers have placed Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO into this popular cache in Canmore, site of the Nordic Skiing events at the 1988 Winter Olympics, adding 55.4 miles to JACKO's distance travelled and moving him up into 3rd position overall (just!).

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Update! It's that Gang again

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug left The Summer Solstice Four Peaks Challenge event cache in the hands of cacher mick33.

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Update! Garland Gang hogging the updates again!

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug has been retrieved by Canadian cachers TheRacers.

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Update! Garland Gang are at it again

Garland Gang's second entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race has been placed into this event cache, adding 4.3 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! Nosey Pup extends it's lead (again!)

Cacher lakelady5 placed niknrich's Nosey Pup EmCache Racer Travel Bug into this Canadian cache, from where it was instantly retrieved by Norfolkbirder. The result of this was an addition of 194.9 miles to it's distance travelled, further extending it's already commanding race lead. Expect to see Nosey Pup return to the UK shortly!

Speaking of Canadian caches, Garland Gang's JACKO has stampeded into a Top 10 race position after cachers The Creepy Crawlies placed him into this Calgary cache, adding 4387.9 miles to his distance travelled, and adding the coveted Overseas Travel Asterisk to his milage.

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Update! A distance reduction!

Cachers natterjacktoad have logged RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug as found in this popular Derbyshire cache, and upon investigation it seems that cacher Dogmatix accidently logged Cachehopper into the wrong cache. I've corrected the milage, meaning a 2.6 mile reduction in it's total distance travelled.

In other news, North-Western cacher The Magna Defender has retrieved Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB from the Lancashire cache that it had been resting in for the last 6 days.

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Update! Cachehopper hops back into a cache

Cacher Dogmatix has placed RascalGaskells' Cachehopper Travel Bug into this Derbyshire cache, adding 7.2 miles to it's distance hopped. Interestingly, Cachehopper is the second entry in The 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race to visit this cache, as geopirate4's now muggled GeoCoin spent a few weeks here last September/October.

In other news, the German cache that peachleaf's GeoCoin is logged into has now been archived, but I believe (if I'm understanding the language correctly!) that the coin is now in the possession of the Cache Owner.

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Update! Mrs. Web Rat's GeoCoin definitively in the Top 10

Cacher Pio Clan placed Mrs. Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin into this Minnesota cache from where it was promptly retrieved by local cacher Deisel123. The trip to Minnesota has added 4002.5 miles to the distance travelled by Mrs. Web Rat's entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race. This is sufficient to push Mrs. WR up into a Top 10 race position, splitting the entries of Johnny B. Goode and Sukigoeswandering.

In other news, Jupiter103 has placed lgxkls' John's stegasaurus TB into this Buckinghamshire cache, adding 14.6 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! John's stegasaurus walks like a dinosaur

Lgxkls' John's stegasaurus Travel Bug has been retrieved by Bucks-based cacher Jupiter103. Is that a reference to an old car from Bradford?

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Update! Johnny B.Goode's Travel Bug adds 375.9 miles

HaikuKarma left
Johnny's TB in Norfolk
Gene Vincent's home town

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Update! Horsey Neigh Neigh gallops into 4th place

American cacher swisscache has dropped Geohunter-X's Horsey Neigh Neigh Travel Bug into this intriguing cache in the U.S., adding 4094.2 miles to it's distance travelled, enough to vault Horsey into a top 4 position in the current standings. Not only that, but cache GCV20D happens to be a Stargate cache, meaning that Horsey could end up anywhere, even back in the U.K.!

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Update! A pair of movers

Two entries in the 2009/2010 EMCache Travel Bug Race have been placed into caches; ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the Monkey TB into this Kent cache adding 18.3 miles to it's distance travelled, and Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! TB has been dropped into this Lancashire cache, adding 11.8 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Dinosaur in Wonderland

Cacher mk rambling rose has placed lgxkls' John's stagasaurus Travel Bug in this cache near Houghton Regis, adding 16.7 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! A (Very) Late Log from Mr Hedgehog

Hampshire-based cacher Mr Hedgehog has logged that he retrieved lgxkls' Karon's Promise Travel Bug from Reservoir View on May 5th (yes, it took him 5 weeks to log it out!) and placed it in this cache today, adding 13.5 miles to it's distance travelled in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race.

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Counties visited map: Version 12

It's back! Yes, I've finally updated the map of UK Counties visited (based on one found here) by entries in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race. New counties added are Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Norfolk, Scotland's Strathclyde Region and Tyne & Wear;

These seven additional counties, when added to Cambridgeshire, Ceredigion, Clwyd, Cornwall, Derbyshire, East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Gwent, Hereford & Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, The Highland Region, The Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shoropshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Yorkshire and Wiltshire, make a total of 36 UK counties visited and still more than four months of the race to go!

Update! Race leader dropped in Canada

Cacher Norfolkbirder has extended the lead of 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race leader niknrich's Nosey Pup by another 4541.5 miles after placing it in this Canadian cache, from where it was quickly retrieved by Cache Owner lakelady5, which adds anothor dimension to the race. Should I add a third asterisk to Nosey Pup's milage to signify that it has travelled abroad, returned to the UK, and then gone overseas again? Will Nosey Pup make it home to the East Midlands in time for the end of the race??

In other news, Mrs Web Rat's GeoCoin was retrieved almost immediately from the cache that it was placed in on Saturday, by cacher Pio Clan who is planning to take it to the U.S.A.

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Update! Mrs Web Rat gains two places

Cacher lauraxstevenson has placed Mrs Web Rat's GeoCoin into this frequently-visited Berkshire cache, adding 54.5 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to move it up two places in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race.

In other news, Rochester-based cacher dps_gps has retrieved ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the monkey Travel Bug from Poot Loot.

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Update! VROOM VROOM revving up again

Chorley-based cachers smallwoodeteam have retrieved Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug and are wondering what to do with it next.

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Update! The Great Galaxy Seekers' GeoCoin has been found

Kent cacher jayteecee has retrieved The Great Galaxy Seekers' Big Ben GeoCoin from Old St. Nick.

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Update! LOUIS VROOM VROOMs past three competitors

Cacher The QM has placed Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug in this Lancashire cache, adding 56.9 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to move it up three places in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race.

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Update! Lgxkls' John's stegasaurus already retrieved

Experienced cacher mk rambling rose has retrieved lgxkls' John's stegasaurus Travel Bug from Tall Trees on the very same day that it was placed in the cache.

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Update! Johnny B Goode's TB be gone

Now in the hands of
Poetic HaikuKarma
In America

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Update! SPANK gets slapped in the Poot

Cachers the_roys have dropped ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the monkey Travel Bug into this cache, adding 5.1 miles to his distance travelled in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race.

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Update! A change of position!

Cacher Norfolk12 has placed lgxkls' John's stegasaurus Travel Bug in this cache near Milton Keynes, adding 23.5 miles to it's distance travelled, enough to nudge ahead of Mrs. Web Rat's GeoCoin into 17th place in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race.

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Update! JACKO grabbed by The Creepy Crawlies (Ouch!)

Kent cachers The Creepy Crawlies retrieved Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug from last night's event and are threatening to take the singing bug to another continent shortly.

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Update! JACKO pops into South East London Event

MomAndEm have dropped Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug into this literally-named event cache in South East London, adding 4.9 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Dinosaur not extinct yet

Experienced cacher Norfolk12 has retrieved lgxkls' John's stegasaurus Travel Bug from Big Sky.

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Update! Lots of distance covered, but no position changes

A few updates to add; cacher dafffy placed greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog into this cache, making the little amphibian the first entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race to visit Italy, and adding 700.9 miles to it's distance covered.

Two entries retrieved were ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the monkey TB, collected by cachers the_roys and Mrs. Web Rat's GC which was picked up by cacher lauraxstevenson.

Beating all three of these entries was niknrich's EmCache Racer: Nosey Pup TB which cacher Norfolkbirder both dropped and retrieved from this Norfolk cache, adding another 4449 miles to Nosey pup's walkies!

Finally, just yesterday JohnnyBGoode's You want fries with that? TB was left in this sleepy TB Hotel.

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No updates for a few days

I'm off to Disneyland Paris with partner Joanne and our 5-year daughter Eleanor for an internet-free holiday, so all updates are on hold until next week. I'll catch everything up then and finally get around to an updated Counties Visited map and some stats.

Happy caching, STP

Update! SPANK passes 5000 mile mark

Cacher dave-harris has placed ITCHYthirdEYE's SPANK, the monkey Travel Bug into this Kent cache, adding 123.2 miles to SPANK's distance, making a new total of 5070.6 miles travelled.

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Update! Speading a little Love ...From Leicestershire

South Carolina student cacher DeSeyBulldog has retrieved Sukigoeswandering's From Leicestershire With Love Travel Bug. Now that Suki's and JohnnyBGoode's TBs have separated, which one will travel the furthest? Will either one make it back to the East Midlands?

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Update! JACKO keeps on touring

Surrey based cachers MomAndEm have retrieved Garland Gang's JACKO Travel Bug from this cache in Greater London, presumably before r0rschach had a chance to log him in. This adds 12 miles to JACKO's total distance travelled in the 2009/2010 EmCache Travel Bug Race.

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Update! 2 Travel Bugs retrieved

Veteran cacher The QM has picked up Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug and newbie cacher (with 168 finds in less than 2 months!) arestus has retrieved JohnnyBGoode's You Want Fries With That? TB, but has not apparently picked up Sukigoeswanderings' Bug at the same time.

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Update! The Web Rat's GeoCoin back in the UK

Cachers GeoSkrapers have placed The Web Rat's Definitive GeoCoin EmCache Racer in this cache on The Isle of Arran in North Ayrshire, Strathclyde Region, Scotland. This not only adds 456 miles to it's total distance travelled, but additionally gives the coin it's second asterisk, indicating that it has completed it's task of travelling overseas and then returning to the UK.

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Update! Piston head Pete visits milestone Event Cache

Cachers Ginge and Winge placed uk89camaro's Piston head Pete TB into this event cache. So, who retrieved Pete?

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Update! Lucky Lottie plays an Asa

Veteran German cacher Asa has collected Lucky Lottie's EmCache Racer "Holiday Bug" Travel Bug from the cache that it has rested in for most of the last four weeks.

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Update! JACKO retrieved too

Another entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race has been retrieved, as cacher r0rschach has collected Garland Gang's JACKO Travel Bug only one day after he was placed into Oaky Doke!

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Update! Race leader has now travelled half The World's circumference

Cacher Norfolkbirder has taken niknrich's Nosey Pup Travel Bug to Trinidad & Tobago, dipping him into firstly this cache and then into this one, bringing Nosey Pup's total distance travelled up to an eye-watering 12105.4 miles. If that isn't enough, Norfolkbirder is threatening to bring Nosey Pup back to the UK and then out to Canada next month!

Meanwhile, oceanblue07970's Pat's Special Delivery TB has been dropped into this cache, adding a much more modest 5.7 miles to his "round".

Additionally, my own Emo the Fast Fish Travel Bug has been collected by West Midlands cachers Russ and Ruth. Thanks guys!

Finally, a fourth consecutive caching team has recorded a DNF on this cache. Does this spell Bad News for JohnnyBGoode and Sukigoeswandering's entries in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race?

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Update! JACKO in the smoke

Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug has been dropped into this cache in the London borough of Bexley, adding 2.6 miles to it's distance travelled.

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Update! Is an entry about to hop it to Italy?

No sooner had greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog been dropped into a cache than it was retrieved by the Cache Owner, dafffy, who is threatening to take it to Italy.

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Update! Greedy Green Frog says Auntie & we meet SPANK, the Monkey

German cacher Hatje1 has placed greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog EmCache Racer into this multi-cache, adding 7.9 miles to it's distance travelled.

In other news, ITCHYthirdEYE has replaced his lost/stolen Crown Jewels with cheeky simian SPANK, the Monkey.

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Update! Two entries retrieved

Greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog Adenture Guide, currently in 3rd place in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache TB Race, has been collected by German cacher Hatje1 and Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug, currently in 15th place, has been collected by Kent-based cacher coldrum.

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Update! So, who retrieved Piston head Pete?

No need to keep you in suspense any longer, uk89camaro's Piston head Pete TB was retrieved by East Mids cachers Ginge And Winge.

In other news, cacher tony_c placed Garland Gang's EMCACHE RACER JACKO Travel Bug into this cache, adding 82 miles to it's total distance travelled. Check this log for photographs of JACKO in his new home.

Another entry in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race to be deposited into a cache is greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog, dropped into this German puzzle cache, adding 3.8 miles to it's race distance.

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Update! Greedy Green Frog gobbles up another cache

German cacher thuladog dropped greedygreenfrog's Greedy Green Frog EmCache TB Racer into this recently placed cache, from where it was soon retrieved by cacher GUNDAMAX, adding 7.1 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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Update! Louis' Vroom Vroom!! finds room

Garland Gang's LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! Travel Bug has been dropped into this cache, adding 6.4 miles to it's distance travelled, which means that all active entries in the 2009/2010 EmCache TB Race have now passed the 100 miles travelled mark.

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Update! Two moves, one 3 miles and one 964.4 miles!

After holding lgxkls' John's stegasaurus emcache TB racer for two months, cacher magicme200 has placed it into this Hertfordshire cache, adding 3 miles to it's distance travelled.

Meanwhile, Hungarian cacher somloci has placed uk89camaro's Piston head Pete emcache racer Travel Bug into his upcoming Lost and Found Event Cache in Loughborough, adding not just 964.4 miles to Pete's distance travelled, but also adding the second asterisk needed to show that a race entry has returned to the UK after an overseas visit.

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Update! Good news for Garland Gang, great news for OceanBlue!

Good news for Garland Gang, as both of their entries in the 2009 / 2010 EmCache TB Race have been retrieved; JACKO by Kent-based cacher tony_c and, after an interminable 5 months in the same cache, LOUIS' VROOM VROOM!! by Leeds-based cacher Budlaw.

Great news for oceanblue07970 as her TB, Pat's Special delivery, believed lost, has been picked up by Scottish cacher N.I.B.

In fact, it turns out that Pat was never lost at all. A well-respected cacher recorded a DNF on the cache that Pat was in and so the Cache Owner assumed that the cache had gone missing and posted the TB's enclosed as missing, when in fact the cache was still present and has had 6 finders since it was reported muggled, and at least one of those finders didn't take OceanBlue's Travel Bug because it wasn't logged into that cache, thanks to the Cache Owners posting it as missing!

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Update! Skraping the bottom of the cache

The Web Rat's EmCache Racer GeoCoin has been retrieved from Ceesh by Dutch cachers GeoSkrapers.

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Update! Mrs Web Rat's geocoin jumps 1.2 miles

Mrs Web Rat's emCache Racer GeoCoin has been retrieved by cacher ginger4x4 who almost immediately placed it into this cache, adding 1.2 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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