Before we left the U.S. we took some Kina coins and put trackable dog tags on them, and dropped them into different geocaches. One we dropped off in N.Carolina
For those unfamiliar with the idea of a geocache, I would recommend this <a href="http://www.geocaching.com/guide/">link.</a> It's a great family hobby! A dogtag, is a trackable, which is a derivation of geocaching.
The idea is that someone sees your dogtag, picks it up, goes online, reads your story, and moves it towards it's goal, while registering on a website that they found it.
For 6 years we hadn't heard a word on our 4 dogtags, and assumed they went missing.
But recently one of them has popped up in Germany and we've been getting responses.
OUR dogtag goal was simple. To have the dogtag travel the globe and then be handed to us in person in PNG while spreading the news of Bible Translation. We'll make new friends that way and have a great story to tell about the dogtags trip around the world.
Today was our first non-English comment on the dogtag.
it was
Hab ich gesehen in den Händen von Elbenschreck, der ihn weiter mit auf Reisen nimmt : ) So I ran it through Google Translate and it came up with "I have seen in the hands of same shock, which further takes him on a journey." HA HA HA HA! I have only guesses as to what that might mean, but I think SAME SHOCK is actually 'Handen von Elbenschreck' which is a location. So I took this to mean "I found your dogtag in Handen von Elbenschreck (town, name of a cache? a statue? you never know where a geocache might be hiding), and I'm going to put it in another cache that will take it further on it's journey.' How cool! Anyway it's currently in Niedersachsen, Germany, after having gone mysteriously missing for a period of time. so far our dogtag has travelled 7,160 miles.