So about 6 weeks ago, I was coming home from school and stopped, confused. There was a small, caramel-colored cat playing with my younger brothers (Will and Ben) on the driveway. I had never seen this cat before and asked my mom where it came from. She said that he had followed Will while he was riding his bike around the house, and apparently the owners live a few houses down, but were on vacation. I pick him up and see look at his name tag. “Milo…interesting name.” I say to myself. Milo seemed nice enough, he didn’t resist as I picked him up. “The owners are gone for the weekend,” my mom said. “He’ll be staying with us for a while.”

And from then on his nickname was The Nomad Cat, coming to our house whenever he wants attention. Sometimes he sleeps overnight in the garage in the bed we made out of old blankets for him, sometimes not. We never really know where he is, but one thing is for certain: he’s a true cat in doing as he pleases.

So, when I heard about geocaching of the first time, I was amazed that containers full of small items were littered practically all across the globe. I went and did a little bit of research, and decided that I should go and find some geocaches. I successfully found some and had a lot of fun finding the geocaches. So I did a little bit more research and found that there was also a system called travel bugs.

Travel bugs are little dog tags that have a code written on them that go in geocaches for people to find. When found, the person who found the travel bug enters the code into the geocaching website and it tracks where the bug has been. Afterwards you put the travel bug in a new geocache. So I bought a travel bug and put it in a geocache near me. And sure enough, a week later somebody took it and dropped it in a new cache. Except when I looked up its new location, it was in Austria! It’s still an active travel bug and has moved to 20 different locations in Austria since I put it in Austin.

Geocaching is fun and I recommend it to everyone!