Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!!

Wow, I had dream that I hadn't updated The Great Travel Bug Knockout blog for three months and then I woke up and IT WAS TRUE!

Anyway, I'm back now, so with only 6 weeks to go, it time to say goodbye to Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer, Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer and Knockout Ferrari, and in true Bullseye fashion, let's have a look at what they could've won;

Not quite as exciting as a speedboat, but easier to find space on your mantlepiece for!

Only 3 survivors now;
the noble traveller, in the hands of German cacher muskosa,
Love and Peace (Maan), in the hands of Canadian cachers StoGirls and possibly on it's way from Quebec to Florida,
and runaway leader BraveHeart, currently in this German cache, and, thanks to a lengthy sojourn in The Antipodes followed by a recent return trip to Europe has racked up an impressive 24315.11 official Knockout miles! I can imagine Team Blid435 rubbing their hands together in anticipation!

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the noble traveller cleans up

German cacher Flixsi retrieved cooper troopers' the noble traveller Travel Bug from the Whovian multicache that it was residing in. A few days later it was grabbed by fellow German Orphik at this CITO Event 156.62 miles away. Interestingly, Flixsi has not logged an attended at this event, but did attend an earlier event, but Orphik didn't. This means that the noble traveller possibly spent time in the hands of another cacher in between. If the missing link (not that one!) is found, then I'll add any extra distance covered.

Also on the move has been Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB, which has been picked up by Canadian cacher new8812, who has dipped LaP(Maan) into this cache, adding 24.03 miles to it's total distance covered, before going on to dip the Love-spreading trackable into 1, 2, 3, 4 further caches. No milage was added to Love and Peace's official total due to the rule stating that only the first cache visited by each cacher holding the TB counts. New8812 have retained possession.

Finally, mat smith's Hazards of Geocaching 2 (The Sheep) Travel Bug has been retrieved from the Dutch multicache that it was grazing in by occassional cacher Drifter_NL.

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New Top 3! New Top 3! New Top 3!

Okay, it's only one spot (3rd) in the Top 3 that has changed, but as it happens only rarely, I'm making a big deal about it (and, of course, it occurs just after posting my first update for two weeks!).  Yes, cooper troopers' the noble traveller has been placed into this popular and appropriate German multicache, adding 37.83 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to move it ahead of maybe-missing-maybe-not Knockout Ferrari.

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No News is Bad News for Half Hearted

It's (a slightly delayed) Elimination Day at The Great Travel Bug Knockout, and unfortunately for Oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug it's a case of No News is Bad News as the shiny little TB has been left stranded in a Belgian cache. I wonder what will become of it...



We may have bidden bye-bye to ½H, but it's still business as usual for the remaining 7 entries, with cooper troopers' the noble traveller closing to within 30 miles of the top 3 after TeamSanSeba dipped it into this Turkish cache, adding 1592.33 miles to it's distance travelled. TeamSanSeba then took tnt all the way back to Germany and placed the silver TARDIS into this popular German TB Hotel. No milage was added on the return journey due to it being the second cache visited by the same cacher. However, Good News for cooper troopers as their trackable was promptly retrieved by local cachers TeamRR207.

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tnt blows past 4000 mile mark

Whilst the top 3 entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout have been treading water recently, cooper troopers' the noble traveller Travel Bug has been quietly and steadily racking up the milage and has now passed the 4000 miles travelled mark, thanks to Dutch cachers UPQuest adding 88.33 miles to the silver TARDIS' accumulated distance by placing it into this German cache. It was picked up the very same day by German cachers TeamSanSeba, who are aiming to add about 3000 kms of additional distance soon. That'll put the Whovian TB within striking distance of 3rd place (and early pacesetter) Knockout Ferrari, owned by fellow TB Race organiser Jacaru.

In other Knockout news, lgxkls' Hazards Of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB has been retrieved from the cache that it was resting in by local German cacher Helle22.

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Another entry sails off into the sunset...

It's time to wave bye-bye to wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug, and there she goes now;




In other Knockout news, cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB has, after being ignored by at least 4 cachers, been picked up by Dutch cachers UPQuest.

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Germany, the Travel Bug magnet!

5...4...3...2...1...

Still no sign of rescue for wemnog's floundering The Skylark TB.

Meanwhile, Germany is proving an irresistable attraction to entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout, as Dutch cachers Team Nessa have retrieved cooper troopers' the noble traveller Travel Bug and dropped it into this frequently-visited driveby cache alongside the A3 Autobahn, adding 72.6 miles to it's distance travelled. tnt previously spent much of March, April, May and June in Germany and joins 2 other entries currently resting in caches in the same country.

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Is The Skylark's hopes sunk?

5...4...3...2...1...

With only 5 days until the next Elimination Day, it appears that wemnog's hopes for a Knockout win for his Travel Bug The Skylark may have run aground, as although Stompy&Stampy dropped the little sailing boat into this cache (after dipping it into 26 other caches first, of course!). After a week's rest it was retrieved by cacher scott_ie89, who dipped it into this cache, adding a scant 0.54 of a mile to it's distance travelled. He has since dipped the tiny dinghy into 33 more caches, then re-visited 4,  and has retained possession. The Skylark has now been logged into 225 caches (including 6 repeat visits)!

Despite all this activity, that teeny .54 of a mile has proven insufficient to hold back mat smith's Hazards of Geocaching 2 (The Sheep) John's Knockout Racer TB, which was retrieved from this Portuguese cache by Dutch cacher bachjes, who is threatening to take it back to The Netherlands with him. Assuming that the previous holder of HoG2, Wild_Lion, placed the woolly trackable directly into the cache, the distance added is 78.09 miles. What is it about Portuguese cachers and their reluctance to log TBs into and/or out of caches?

Another place change this time too, as although cacher Taubacher finally dropped off lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB into this German cache (after a couple of abortive dips), no actual official Knockout milage has been added due to the Only The First Dip By A Cacher Counts rule. Therefore, after cacher Svenimateur placed Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug into this German cache adding 161.21 miles and fellow German cacher Fo0dy moved the little car along to this cache, adding another 7.02 miles, SC10KR has moved into 5th place overall in The Great Travel Bug Knockout. Interestingly, affter visiting Spain, Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Norway, these two entries are now in caches less than 60 miles apart. Small World eh?

Finally for this update, cacher Radijs placed cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB into this cache, adding another 3.02 miles to it's total distance travelled.

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A rare change in The Knockout rankings

...as wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug moves ahead of mat smith's Hazards of Geocaching 2 (The Sheep) John's Knockout Racer TB. The Skylark was retrieved from the Cornish cache that it was moored in by local cachers Stompy&Stampy who then proceeded to take the little dinghy on a busy caching trip, managing to visit 141 caches in the next 5 days! Unfortunately for wemnog, almost all of this effort by Stompy&Stampy was wasted as Rule no.3 of The Great Travel Bug Knockout states:

3. Only the first move by a cacher will count.  Reason: This will not stop "dippers" from doing their thing, but it does mean that only their first dip counts.

The first cache that The Skylark visited whilst in the hands of S&S was this one in Warwickshire, which added 191.99 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to enable it to leapfrog mat smith's recently returned-to-action HoG2 Bug into 8th place overall in The Knockout.

I'm not going to link to all of the remaining 140 caches that The Skylark has been dipped into, you can find that here if you're the obsessive type, just mention that as well as Warwickshire it also visited caches in South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire and Wiltshire, including both this cache and this one which it has visited previously.

Current 2nd-placed Knockout entry, Hediya's  Love and Peace (Maan) TB was placed into this brand-new Canadian cache by MaliBooBoo, adding 25.9 miles to it's distance travelled. It was retrieved 3 days later by fellow British Columbians Bull&Tink.

Cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB has also been keeping on the move, Dutch cacher slottys placing it into this puzzle cache (the Dutch love their puzzle caches and their multis!) adding 83.97 miles to it's odometer. It didn't hang around however, as it was retrieved 2 days later by local cacher Radijs.

Not too far to the south in Belgium, current playground of oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug, which cachers leffe&duvel placed into this multicache, 29.68 miles away from the cache that they retrieved it from. It was almost immediately picked up by local cacher Verborgen Boswitje.

Meanwhile, to the east, lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer TB was retrieved by German cacher Taubacher from the Italian cache that it had been left in. He has logged an intention to take HoG1 to Germany, but in the meantime stopped off in Austria (which the little bovine briefly visited in April) to dip it into this cache (adding 38.3 miles to it's total distance), this one (adding nothing) and this one (ditto!).

Finally, commiserations to castlegrice, whose George's Fun Bus 2 Bug has been placed into this Spanish cache, which would have added sufficient milage to save the little camper van from the scrapyard, but it came just 9 days too late!

STOP THE BLOG!! Just received word that German geocacher CryptoBLN retrieved current Knockout leader, Team Blid435's BraveHeart TB from the New Zealand cache that it has been languishing in for the last 2 months and dropped it into this more regularly visited one 1.35 miles along the coast. Well, at least he didn't take it back to Germany with him! (Team Blid435 - that's new!).

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...and I haven't forgotten about the promised mid-race round-up. I'll post it as soon as I have time!

Bye-bye to George's Fun Bus ...and just where has that sheep been?!

I think that castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB is the first entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout to be eliminated from the competition whilst in the hands of a cacher, but obviously urriellu hasn't had time to place the little camper van in Spain...
...or has he, as this looks familiar...


In other Knockout news, mat smith's Hazards of Geocaching 2 (The Sheep) John's Knockout Racer TB has made a surprise reappearance after more than 7 months on the missing ovines list when Portuguese cacher Wild_Lion found the woolly bug in this cache, 219.62 miles from where it was last reported as being. Assuming that it hasn't visited any other caches in between, that makes HoG2's current distance travelled as 1118.82 miles, giving it a more than 150 mile advantage over wemnog's The Skylark TB, which was safely retrieved from Mega Wales by cacher Shiggaddi, who then placed the little dinghy into this Cornish cache (crossing the Bristol Channel on the way, of course!), adding 86.81 miles to it's distance travelled.

                                     The Skylark at Mega Wales 2011

Mention of Hazards of Geocaching 2 brings to mind it's sister entry, lgxkls' Hazard of Geocaching 1, which has been deposited into this Italian multi-cache, just over the border from Slovenia, scene of it's recent dipping mini-frenzy.

Another entry to visit another country is oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug which was placed into this Belgian cache, 602.5 miles from the French cache that cacher SOSATO retrieved it from. It was promptly picked up by local Belgian cachers leffe&duvel.

Finally for today, cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB was placed into this Dutch puzzle cache, adding 57.94 miles to it's distance travelled. It was retrieved by Cache Owner verdi, who placed it into another Dutch puzzle cache, adding another 68.84 miles, and from where it was retrieved the very same day by local cachers slottys.

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...and look out later this week for very special ½-distance round-up, including the first look at The Winner's Trophy!

Which entry has more than doubled it's distance travelled?

...the answer is oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug, which was picked up from the French cache that it was resting in by French cacher ptittomtom, who then placed it into this cache in the Catalan speaking area of the French Pyreneés close to the border with Spain. This move added 453.57 miles to HH's distance travelled, more than doubling it's milage and moving the shiny little TB up 2 places in The Great Travel Bug Knockout's rankings.

This is bad news for castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 TB, which only just squeaked through last month's Elimination Day and now has to travel more than 300 miles to exceed the distance travelled by wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug, which is made even more difficult by the tiny dinghy tendency to continually make little moves, which of course all add up; The Skylark's latest move added 27.35 miles to it's total distance when cacher Oofy placed it into this Essex cache.

Another entry making a move this week, albeit a much smaller one, was current 2nd-placed entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB which was retrieved by cachers Volkswag, who dipped it into this cache adding 0.56 of a mile to it's distance travelled. They subsequently dipped Love and Peace (Maan) into 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 more caches (the last one is a Virtual!), none of which add any official distance to LaP(Maan)'s record due to The Great Travel Bug Knockout's only-the-first-dip-by-a-cacher-counts rule.

Finally, two more entries have been retrieved recently, although neither has yet been placed into a cache; Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer may finally be waving goodbye to Sweden after being picked up by Bavarian cacher SuRosis who is planning to take the little white car back to Germany with them, and cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which has been snaffled-up by Dutch cacher Schaduw1, who posted the following snap of the tiny TARDIS:

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Unhappy Hoppy

No doubt you're all dying from the suspense, but now it can be revealed: the entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout eliminated on July 1st was fuzziebear3's Happy Hoppy Travel Bug, and somehow I just can't help but think that whoever found the little amphibian resting in it's box experienced something like this...

Ah, a redo of the classic One Froggy Evening, possibly the greatest Merry Melody of them all? Oh, and am I the only one who loved that scene in Mel Brooks' Spaceballs..?

Although we bid farewell to the little green fellow, life goes on for other entries in The Knockout, with cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB adding 257.78 miles to it's distance travelled by being placed into this interesting puzzle/multi cache near Arnhem in the east of The Netherlands.

Another entry to add some milage to it's total is Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer TB, which logged another 38.79 miles after being placed into this Swedish cache.

Slovenian cachers Kassiopeia82 dipped lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer into this cache, then dropped it into this one.

Finally, wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug continues it's voyage around the caches of Greater London, having been retrieved by cacher Oofy.

Although we're now down to the final ten surviving entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout things are looking healthy with entries currently available for retrieval from caches in 7 different countries on 3 continents; the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Sweden and Slovenia in Europe, plus Canada in North America and New Zealand in Australasia. Go get 'em cachers!

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Is George's Bus still having fun?

5...4...3...2...1...

It's five days until the next elimination from The Great Travel Bug Knockout, and castlegrice's George's Fun Bus 2 has to pack away the surfboards (in Scotland?!) and hit the road if it hopes to pass the probably missing Happy Hoppy TB owned by fuzziebear3.

No such worries for current 2nd-place entry Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) Travel Bug, which, after it's Alaskan adventure, has been dropped into this cache in British Columbia, Canada ready to be retrieved and add to it's distance travelled.

Meanwhile, cooper troopers' the noble traveller has added 436.19 miles to it's distance travelled after being retrieved from the airport cache that was resting in by German cachers forestcats. They brought tnt back to the UK and dipped it into this London cache, before placing the silver TB into this popular one, from where it was quickly retrieved by Dutch cachers Arjan&denise, who have taken the travelling TARDIS back to their native (Nether)land.

Still in the UK, and indeed Greater London, wemnog's The Skylark Travel Bug was placed into this cache by cachers theleverets, adding 6.8 miles it's distance sailed. It was retreived 3 days later by local caching team The 5 Raybould Ramblers.

Finally for today, Slovenian cachers Kassiopeia82 picked up lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 TB from the cache that it residing in and dipped it into this cache, then this one, this one and this one. As per usual Knockout rules, only the first dip counts, so 3.06 miles have been added to HoG1's total distance.

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Double Knockout blow for Jacaru's Ferrari?

Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari Travel Bug has suffered a possible double K.O. this week, as firstly it lost it's long-held second place in The Great Travel Bug Knockout to Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) TB, and then was reported missing by the most recent finder of the cache that it was logged into...!

Speaking of The Knockout's new second-postition holder; Canadian cacher DisneyGirl took LaP(Maan) to this cache in the Alaskan city of Skagway (population 862 - not overly populated for a city!) but the cache was too full to leave it, so just dipped the love-spreading traveller, adding 880.07 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to nose ahead of Knockout Ferrari into second place overall. DisneyGirl subsequently dipped LaP(Maan) into this cache too (no milage added due to The Knockout's now infamous first-dip-by-each-cacher-only-to-count rule!) and has retained possession of the Bug.

Other entries on the move include cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which has materialised in this cache at the peculiar EuroAirport, which has official joint French and Swiss nationality, and has free access from Germany too. This drop has added 11.73 miles to tnt's race distance, and marks the little TARDIS' second visit to France.

Cooper troopers' friendly local rivals, Smart451 have seen their own Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug log some distance too, firstly cacher pensionist dropped it into this cache in Uppsala, Sweden, adding 119.71 miles to it's official Knockout distance travelled. It was quickly retrieved by visiting Czech cacher satanmar who the very same day placed the little car into this cache 0.44 of a mile away.

Finally, wemnog's The Skylark TB (which has covered 648.81 miles, despite not yet leaving England) has been picked up by cachers theleverets, whom I believe are based in Surrey.

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Knockout leader extends it's lead!

Bad news time for all entries except the current Knockout leader, Blid435's BraveHeart Travel Bug, which has recorded it's first milage since early April after New Zealand cacher Mel74 dropped the shiny little heart into this cache, adding 5.12 miles to it's distance travelled.

Another entry may be adding some miles soon, as novice cacher kharaa retrieved cooper troopers' the noble traveller Bug from the German cache that it had been resting in for the last couple of months.

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Catching up on an active Easter

Lots of moves in the second half of this week for entries in The Great Travel Bug Knockout; Current leader, Blid435's BraveHeart TB has been retrieved from the cache that it was resting in by New Zealand cacher Mel74.

Current 3rd place entry, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) trackable was placed into this cache by the Canadian cacher that was holding it, adding 21.62 miles to it's distance travelled. It was retrieved the very same day by fellow Canadian gottagonow, who subsequently dipped it into this nearby cache, adding 0.81 of a mile to it's Knockout milage. Gottagonow has retained possession of LaP(Maan), therefore any subsequent dips or placement will not add any official Knockout milage to it's record. LaP(Maan) keeps moving, but appears to be stuck in a sort of "Bermuda diamond" east of Vancouver at the moment. Will Hediya's entry eventually be swallowed up or break out?

Fourth placed entry, cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, was retrieved from the German cache that it was residing in by cacher tapescript (whom I believe is Swiss, but does much of his caching in Germany). Two days later he dropped tnt into this interesting cache in Germany, sited at the epicentre of a Richter 4.5 earthquake which occured on May 5th 2009. This placement added 8.65 miles to tnt's distance travelled.

Cooper troopers' friendly local rivals, smart451, have had their Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer Travel Bug retrieved from the Swedish cache in which it had passed the last 16 days by Swedish newbies SjöqvistRockers.

16 days is nothing compared to the 73 days that oceanblue07970's Half Hearted Travel Bug spent in a cache in France before being retrieved by experienced French cacher christian35, who the very same day dipped it into this nearby cache, adding 1.14 miles to ½H's distance travelled. Christian35 has since dipped the shiny little trackable into no less than thirteen more caches, none of which add official Knockout milage, and has retained possession.

Finally, as more than one cacher has noted the disappearance of G-X's Voodoo Whodo What You Don't Dare Do People (Racer Bug) TB, I've marked it as whereabouts unknown, hopefully only temporarily!

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Still no sign of The Wild Man of the Woods...

5...4...3...2...1...

It's the final countdown for Grizzly Pair's Quatchi - Grizzly's Knockout Racer! Will the elusive Travel Bug be found in time to add sufficient milage to it's distance to exceed Billy Bear Racer's distance? For that matter, will Billy Bear Racer turn up in a cache or a cacher's hands? All will be revealed by noon tomorrow...

In other news from The Great Travel Bug Knockout, 4 of the current top 6 have either been dropped off or picked up:

Racer leader, Blid435's BraveHeart TB, has been retrieved from the cache that it was resting in by newbie cachers FlipDags. This is the first trackable that FlipDags have ever picked up. Will they know what to do with it?

Third placed TB, Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan), has been placed into this event cache, to be held tomorrow, adding 5.23 miles to it's distance travelled.

Fourth placed entry cooper troopers' the noble traveller, has also been moved a short distance, 1.21 miles, and I'm sure that any distance added will please cooper troopers, but will they be happy that their Travel Bug has moved from a cache that is visited almost every day to one that is visited almost every week!?

Finally, current sixth placed Bug, smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer was retrieved from the event cache that it was placed into by experienced Swedish cacher omaster.

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Love and Peace (Maan) passes the 5000 mile mark

Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) Travel Bug has been retrieved from the Canadian cache that it was resting in by Canadian cachers Burwash Family, who quickly placed LaP(Maan) into this cache, part of an Winnie-the-Pooh themed series, adding 13.78 miles to it's distance travelled, sufficient to pass the 5000 mile mark. Oh, and although Love and Peace is still going around in circles, it's now going clockwise, rather than anticlockwise, which may or may not help it to break out of British Columbia!

A second entry in The Great Travel Bug Knockout to be retrieved (albeit not yet placed) is cooper troopers' the noble traveller, which has been picked up by experienced German cacher wodan74.

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3rd, 4th and 5th place entries respond to Knockout Ferrari's move

While Blid435's BraveHeart TB kicks it's heels in New Zealand, not only has Jacaru's Knockout Ferrari gained 78.76 miles, but now Hediya's Love and Peace (Maan) has caught up by 20.28 miles after being placed into this intriguing cache outside a drive-in cinema. Just one thought, if everyone has to tune their car radios into the soundtrack, does everyone end up with a flat battery at the end of the film?

Next up is cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB, which has gained a whopping 525.58 miles by being placed into this cache in the south-western corner of Germany, close to borders with both France and Switzerland. The cache is dedicated to poet Johann Peter Hebel.

Finally, current fifth-placed Travel Bug in The Great Travel Bug Knockout, lgxkls' Hazards of Geocaching 1 - Karon's Knockout Racer has been dipped into this microcache, part of a series that spells out the word Újpest, the district of Budapest, Hungary that the cache is hidden in. This has added 176.05 miles to HoG1's distance travelled.

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Is the noble traveller about to Czech out another country?

In my last blogpost I pondered which of the current top 5 TBs in The Great Travel Bug Knockout would be first to move along. The answer may be forthcoming shortly as Czech cacher Bobo2222 has retrieved cooper troopers' the noble traveller TB from the Polish cache that it was resting in. Will he place it in a cache in The Czech Republic, adding a 5th different country to it's journey?

In other news, Swedish cachers Pettssons have dipped Smart451's Smart Car 10 Knockout Racer in this cache, and this cache, and then this one, and this one, then this multi, and most recently in this interesting challenge cache; these placements have added 86.37 miles to SC10KR's actual distance travelled, which, due to the only-the-first-dip-counts rule, equates to nothing, nada, nil, zippo, zero and diddly squat in official Knockout distance. Sorry Smart451!

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