Geocaching Coins Update
by Scott
Front and back of our wedding Geocaching coin. The tracking code has been removed.
Each guest at our wedding back in March were given a Geocaching Coin as a party favor. This post is an update on the coins progress as they’ve traveled around the world, and they’ve been busy!
Geocaching is a geeky treasure hunting game where people hide and seek treasures hidden around the world. Someone starts it off by hiding a cache somewhere in the world and recording the cache’s GPS coordinates on-line. Then later others will try and find the cache with nothing but the coordinates. When they find the cache, they will take some treasure and leave some treasure, typically the treasures are: small toys, pins, or similar objects. The fun part of Geocaching is the adventure of finding the cache and exploring areas where you would not otherwise go. The best caches take you to an interesting spot; one with a great view, an historical place, or tell and story.
Geocaching Coins, like the one we gave as a party favor, each are stamped with a unique tracking code. The code is registered on-line with geocaching.com. When a Geocacher finds the coin they will log it on-line. Then when they visit another cache in the future they will leave the coin for someone else to find. Using this we are able to track the coin as it travels around the world.
View Geocaching Coins in a larger map
Our coins have been on the move! Only a few coins have been released in the wild. I suspect that many guests are holding on to them waiting for a vacation where they can release the coin at some exotic location. Or possibly they think the coin is too cool to release? Either way, the coins that have been released have visited some exotic locations: Las Vegas, San Diego, Hawaii, Canada, the Great Lakes, Ireland, Germany, and numerous towns around Texas. They have seen beautiful sandy beaches, the great lakes, awesome cities, and even spent the night in a castle. Someday, if we win the lottery, Tina and I may trek to all these places. Until then it’s cool to watch the journey from afar.
Total Miles Travel: 28,683 miles! (as of October 2011)
That is enough to traverse the circumference of the Earth.
Special thanks to all the cachers out there who have picked up one of our coins and placed in another cache, thank you!
Here are a few pictures taken by the Geocachers:
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- Front and back of our wedding Geocaching coin. The tracking code has been removed.
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- The “Hope+AmazingGrace” family left the a coin in Hawaii during their vacation. What a great view from Kalaheo.
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- After visiting Hawaii the same coin traveled back with “stormysea” to the states, this time to Oregon.
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- Stormysea left the coin in the cache sealrockers-1
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- Geocacher “JEABeatty3” took this picture while leaving the coin in the Flags Of Our Fathers cache at a memorial park in Missouri.
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- Schwerin Castle where a coin stayed very briefly before being scooped up and whisked around Germany by cacher “green_tree”.
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- One of Tina’s brides maid, Jeri, give the coin to her friend who took the coin to Germany. If you look closely in the picture you can see the coin before it was placed in the Schweriner Schloss cache by the Schweriner Castle.
