So, this has been driving me mildly nuts. I see this sticker around town (Colorado), but I have no idea what it signifies. I googled the number, but it only gave me license plate results. I have seen it on different sorts of vehicles, but have no contextual clues as to what it means.

Anybody know what it is?

Geocaching. it is "discoverable" by other geocachers.

Travel bug....

https://www.google.com/?as_qdr...g+car+decal&*&spf=63

It took 2 minutes to answer a question that was bugging me for months.

THANKS!

So do the numbers mean something to fellow geocachers?

Yes. You can "discover" them and write a note where you saw it. You can also "pick up" a bug, to take it on adventures. Typically they are attached to a small trinket. Some, like me, use it to keep track of where I have travelled and "found" caches.

My brother has one on his truck and on his camper. I used to steal them (virtually) and put them random places.

Then he started "taking" my son and I wouldn't "take" him back.

By the way, any cachers who see this- feel free to "discover" me. HZ9YZZ

Each bug has a number to ID it, like a gun. The same model, but this one is yours.

I have a geocoin that travels with me, and it visits caches. It gets miles on it, virtually.
It has been to the Bahamas and St. Thomas and the caches we found there.

Lots of travel bugs. Some have missions. If you find it in a cache and you can help it on its mission, you can take it and drop it in another cache, IRL, not virtually.

The car thing is more recent.

This sounds like the Pokémon but for "grown ups".

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Originally posted by tha1000:
This sounds like the Pokémon but for "grown ups".

Nah, that's Ingress (the beta game for Po-Go).