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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