GEORGE: A dollar bill like any other, except for a handwritten, highlighted note along the bottom edge.
“Track me @ www.wheresgeorge.com”
OK.
“By entering this bill, you will help maintain the tracking of the journey this bill has made. Additionally, you will get back a list of all the cities, states, and countries where your bill has been recorded, as well as travel time and distance along its journey.”
Register on the site and you’ll be able to opt in to receive notifications when your bill is found next. Click the provided link to view a map of the places your bill has traveled.
Haven’t found a bill, but want in on the (mild) fun? Enter your own, new bill to track by simply entering its serial number and denomination.
Whether you find a bill or are sending a new one on its own journey, add a short note about the bill, including where you found it and its condition, etc.
As of about midday Thursday, nearly 325.2 million bills had been entered for their paths to be tracked, at a total value of nearly $1.75 billion. There had already been nearly 5,000 bills entered that day.
A quick example, a $1 bill in a 1999 series has traveled 14,834 miles in 11 years, 294 days, 3 hours, 1 minute, at an average of 3.4 miles per day. It was given to someone in October 2010 at the Branded Steer Steakhouse in South Range, Wis., and turned up next in December the same year as change for someone topping up on gasoline and Combos in Queen Creek, Ariz.
