{"id":191,"date":"2006-12-21T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/the-forces-of-nature-surf-bus-travel-bug\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:42:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T10:42:54","slug":"the-forces-of-nature-surf-bus-travel-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/the-forces-of-nature-surf-bus-travel-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forces-of-Nature Surf Bus Travel Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Forces-of-Nature Surf Bus\" href=\"https:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/surfbus1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image190\" alt=\"Forces-of-Nature Surf Bus\" src=\"https:\/\/alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/surfbus1.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ll soon be releasing my first travel bug on the world. It is activated and ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a Travel Bug? Basically it is a special item that you place in a geocache and send off on a mission. When other geocachers come across them, they move them from cache to cache and the special dog tag with tracking number allows them to log the Travel Bugs movements on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\">geocaching.com<\/a> website. The travel bug is carried from cache to cache (or person to person) in the  \t\t\t\t\treal world and you can follow its progress online. 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