You might wish to be our travel bug today

A geocaching travel bug that is. The girls' 4-H Walker is currently resting on the warm sands of a tropical island. If you're not familiar with geocaching, Travel Bugs (TBs) are game pieces that travel from geocache to geocache. The TBs have a dog tag attached to them with a serial number that is logged on to geocaching.com for the TB's owner to track online. 4-H Walker is more than just a regular travel bug though, it's entered into the CYFERnet Travel Bug Race (a national 4-H program). 4-H Walker Learn more about Geocaching Travel Bugs here. The race was designed to encourage kids to learn more about technology through 4-H. The girls' club launched 4-H Walker back in September and L. was charged with tracking it online and reporting it's progress to the club at their monthly meetings. The object of the race is to see how many miles your club's TB can travel by May 2008. The trick is that the kids are at the mercy of other geocachers picking up 4-H Walker and moving it along. It turns out 4-H Walker has had some good karma. The yellow lines track the path the TB has traveled to date. It started off in a geocache near Sebago Lake and has traveled to Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Florida before jet-setting over to Switzerland. L. had to find a web translator tool to read the post made by a German geocacher. She loved that. Now after nearly two months in Switzerland, the TB is enjoying the sand and sun in.... ... Aruba. Yup, I bet I have a few friends here that might like to be 4-H Walker today. Oh, and in case you're wondering, 4-H Walker has traveled 13,355 miles so far. The kids are certain they are going to win ;-) Read more about Geocaching in Kid Tracks - the Retro version