Imagine this: You drop your TB off in a cache and it quickly travels to its next cache (over 500 miles away) by using a wormhole - a trans dimensional portal opened to a distant location. Sound like science fiction? Actually it’s real. Welcome to the Stargate cache series.

The Stargate TB cache network is set up in the flavor and jargon of the Sci-Fi Channel’s Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis TV series. Instead of connecting wormholes leading to any number of alien planets, or even a galaxy, the geocaching version allows a TB to quickly make a big jump across several states, and more recently even overseas.

While a Stargate TB cache is themed for travel bugs looking to make a long distance jump to another Stargate TB cache, this is actually just a special feature of an otherwise typically operated cache.

These caches have an array of different challenges set up for would be finders, just as any collection of good caches should have. There is still the standard log and the expected trade goods that welcome geocachers to a well-maintained, standard-sized cache.

And, at the request of the cacher dropping off the TB, the TB owner, or the decision of the cache owner, an arriving TB can move through a Stargate TB cache just as a TB moves through any cache. But when all the pieces are in place, an arriving TB can receive travel orders and disappear at one Stargate TB cache to suddenly reappear at another one far away.

“How does the network really work in the real world?" Why inter dimensional wormholes of course...chevron 7 is engaged and locked. All staged TBs are authorized for travel to P...Currently, Stargate caches exist in Pennsylvania, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and Germany. The Stargate TB Cache network is designed for TBs to make big jumps. The special feature of the Stargate TB Caches are not intended to replace the efforts of weekend cachers who routinely move TBs around locally. Very large separations are maintained between caches in the network to ensure no conflicts occur, and each TB is checked by the cache owner insure the TB’s goal is being helped by wormhole travel.

Each Stargate cache is uniquely named by a protocol designed to mimic the TV series jargon. Each cache name is in the format: “Stargate P#### TB cache” where P#### is (“P” + degrees latitude of the cache + degrees longitude of the cache). Thus, the Massachusetts cache at N42 17.800, W071 41.600 became the Stargate P4271 TB Cache. In Stargate short speak, a TB could “…arrive at P4271 for a jump to P2681…” for example, disappearing from Massachusetts and emerging soon after in southwest Florida.

The most common question that is asked about the stargate network is “How does the network really work in the real [mundane] world?" Why inter dimensional wormholes of course...chevron 7 is engaged and locked. All staged TBs are authorized for travel to P...