At its core, The Travel Bugs is a project to make music about the world-wide passtime of geocaching. The Bugs have produced a CD, some singles, a music video and even theme music over the past several years. If you're here, then chances are you're a geocacher yourself, and if you wanna hear the music or see the videos, you are in the right spot.
Anybody who likes music and geocaches needs to have the Travel Bug's CD "Found It!" on hand for those caching trips into the boondocks.
"Found It!" is The Travel Bugs' musical debut and is a collection of 10 tracks of eclectic music about geocaching. The song styles range from country to techno to straight-forward rock about the passtime that we all love so much.
From the haunting tune "The Lost Cache of Forgotten Gulch" about a cache so difficult it's become legendary, to the humourous "To Whom it May Concern", a letter from a concerned Mr. Mug L. Guy asking for help with the "zombies" wandering around his fields out back, the songs weave stories about cachers and muggles alike.
You can find the music in most available streaming outlets, and if you want to own the physical CD and help support The Bugs' efforts to produce more music, it's available for purchase. I really appreciate the folks who have supported this project over the years. I couldn't have done it without you! You rock!
I still can't believe that people manage to find 100 caches in a single day. It's something that I'll never achieve for sure, but I can vicariously celebrate the accomplishment through music. This upbeat pop-punk single, which features a blistering solo from Jan Mullye, lead singer and guitrarist of the Belgian Geocaching band Bugsy Travels & the Ammo Boxes , celebrates a fictional day of rapid caching in search of 100 smiley faces. But will I find that ellusive 100th cache? Listen to find out.
May we introduce Daniel Neville Flunkerbaum III (initials DNF). He is without a doubt, the worst cacher to have ever walked this earth. Imagine geocaching for over 2 decades and never once finding your quarry.
This little ditty was written for those cachers who like to end their day in the pub raising a glass with fellow seekers. For those geocachers in need of a drinking song, this sing-a-long is for you. So here's to Daniel Neville Flunkerbaum III who "cannot find his own behind when he is sittin' down!"
A single produced by the geocaching community, this tunes weaves the tale of an event that grows and grows until it finally reaches the fabled "mega" status". Backed by geocachers via a Kickstarter campaign, this single actually includes the backers' voices as guest vocalists. We're not gonna stop until everybody shouts, "It's Mega!!!!"
As part of the effort to bring a Bugs concert to GeoCoinfest 2019 in Manchester, UK, a single was comissioned by cacher "Mrs Scothog". It is intended to capture her love of earthcaching (she had found nearly 800!), and the lyrics are based upon her actual cache log entries. Yes, she actually ran into a mountain lion once!
She asked that this song be made freely available to the geocaching community, so you can listen or download it at the link below. I am extremely grateful to her for supporting what turned out to be an incredible experience for all involved and for sharing her experiences with us all. If you wanted to commission you very own song, read more about it HERE.
If I close my eyes I can imagine all of us hanging out together listening to this great music!
The Travel Bugs have released a new song and music video "Mingo Bound!"
In August of 2022, Hans, the drummer for Bugsy Travels and the Ammo Boxes, visited Colorado as part of his trip to the US to perform at the HQ 20th Anniversary Celebration. He and his wife Inge wanted to visit the Mingo Cache, so we loaded up the car and drove out into the prairie to find GC30, the oldest cache around. We took some music equipment and performed a little impromptu concert at the cache site, much to the bewilderment of a truck driver who had stopped nearby. This new video documents that road trip!
After 3 years of filming in multiple locations around the globe with an all-star cast and a budget of over $300 million, the music video by The Travel Bugs for their hit song "To Whom It May Concern" is available for viewing! I hope you enjoy the video and excuse my drawing skills.
You may have heard the Travel Bugs and not even known it. The Bugs have provided the theme song and background music for at least 2 podcasts and bumpers for many more.
If you've got a podcast, vlog or radio program and would like to have theme music from The Travel Bugs, want to interview the Bugs, or even know of a show that features the Bugs' music that isn't listed below, just CONTACT ME !
The new theme song for Geocaching Downunder is so catchy, it gets stuck in the head of everyone who hears it.
