The hiker was in the hands of Justintime, who was kind enough to send
me a picture!. Apparently, dotSphinx is in great condition and is on
his way west. He dropped him in Big T' Travelers Inn (Version 2.0)
cache to begin his journey westerly in the direction of the big state
of CA.
Log Date: 2/13/2005
Dropped dotSphinx Hitchhiker into Big T' Travelers Inn cache- good
place for ongoing TB and hitchhikers of this sort to...
At Semptember 4th, the hiker was dropped in
GCK0BW
,
Goose Creek (South Carolina). September 30th, he was retrieved
again. Still no photographs though, sniff...
Log Date: 9/30/2004
Retreaved from "Don't Ruin My Guarden" GCK0BW.
Will move him along shortly.
Log Date: 9/4/2004
Left Dotsphinx in 'Don't ruin my Garden' GCK0BW in Goose Creek, SC.
It's been a while since I heard something from the hiker, but finally
some positive news came in. He is currently located in Summerville, SC:
Location: Netherlands
Sissy-n-CR found dotSphinx (Hitchhiker) (Unknown (Mystery) Cache) at
8/22/2004
Log Date: 8/22/2004
Picked him up yesterday in
School of Fish Cache
. I do not have access
to a digital camera at this time. He is currently at my home in
Summerville, SC. We will try to get him westward bound.
The Hitchhiker has arrived in the United States, great! He appears to
be somewhere in North Carolina, somewhere near the Shearon Harris
reservoir. Unfortunately, nobody so far has sent any digital
photographs, which is a bit of a shame. Here is the log entry:
"I found dotSphinx yesterday in the cache "rad, aka glow in the dark"
(
GCJJ4P
) at the Summer Fun event (GCJG8X). I'll be moving dotSphinx
on soon. Thanks!"
The hiker is back where it started: it is at the
Travellers
on Holiday
hotel again. I noticed that Dekromme was going to visit
this cache before going on holiday to the USA, and mailed Team Aragorn
to see if they could pick him up. So they did, thanks, Team Aragorn!
"DotSphinx wants to go to
America. Its owner asked us to drop it in 'Travellers on Holiday'
because a lift had already been arranged from there to Florida....
Today I finally got to re-launch my Hitchhiker. Until today, I just
could not find the time to set the hiker free again, after we returned
it home from the
Travellers
on Holiday
. We dropped him off at
Eindhoven's
Kwartet Noord-Oost
. This cache is very frequently visited, so
there is a very high probability that it will make its next move
within one or two weeks.
It turns out that the
Travellers
on Holiday
cache hardly gets any visits. And, history shows that
it takes quite a while for travellers to actually get out of the
cache. This (and the fact that I wanted to show the hitchhiker to my
brother who happened to be in the Netherlands for his job) made me
decide to return the hitchhiker home.
By the way, on the way home, my one year old son pulled the little
chain too...
We finally set our hitchhiker free, and dropped him off at
Travellers
on Holiday
, a cache that collects travel bugs willing to travel
internationally. I sure hope they accept hitchikers as well. Anyway, it
is not your typical cache as you can tell by looking at the photo.
Let's hope the hitchhiker can make its way out of the Netherlands.
Umm, let's also hope the kind people behind this cache do not take him
straight to his designated destination,...
I have been tinkering with the idea of unleashing a
Geocaching Hitchhiker
to the
world for quite some time now. Well, sometimes you need some new year
resolutions to get the job done. So here he finally is, Hitchhiker
dotSphinx! I can hardly wait to set him free...