Cannonball Caching Run TB Race: The Cool Bus
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DishNinja
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Friday, October 31, 2014
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Florida, United States
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This is the Cool Bus.
This car is one of a set of eight. They are in Cannonball Run style race back and forth across the country. The goal is to visit as many caches as possible, gathering as many miles as possible and to stay in the race the longest. The last active TB of this series wins.
Each of the eight has a bonus photo goal. This is the kid-friendly fun ride in the race. Its goal is to visit as many kid-friendly caches and cool kid spots- where there just happen to be caches- as possible. When you take it to a fun new location, please let your junior cacher take their favorite picture of the Cool Bus and then please post it with the log before setting the Cool Bus off on its way again!
This is Cannonball Run, caching style!
The Cannonball Run movies were a lot of fun but a lot of folks don’t know that they were based on a series of real cross-country races in the seventies.
Wikipedia supplies the following details:
"The Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, widely known simply as the Cannonball Baker or Cannonball Run, was an unofficial, unsanctioned automobile race run five times in the 1970s from New York City and Darien, Connecticut, on the U.S. Atlantic coast, to the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, a Los Angeles suburb on the Pacific coast. Conceived by car magazine writer and auto racer Brock Yates and fellow Car and Driver editor Steve Smith, the first run was not a real competitive race, as there was only one team running, but intended both as a celebration of the United States Interstate Highway System and a protest against strict traffic laws coming into effect at the time.
As it was found out, the newly imposed 55 mph (89 km/h) speed limit imposed by the National Maximum Speed Law (imposed as an energy conservation measure) was actually slower than the quickest average speeds of point-to-point travels of Erwin George "Cannon Ball" Baker in the first half of the 20th century. In 1933, Baker drove coast to coast in a Graham-Paige model 57 Blue Streak 8, averaging greater than 50 mph (80 km/h), setting a 53 hour 30 minute record that stood for nearly 40 years."
In 2013, that time was cut down to just under 29 hours.
Our goal is a little different. These cars want to race, but they would much rather keep it going--the longer on the move, visiting more caches, the better! Travel Fleas are welcome, of course, and pictures are always appreciated.
There are eight cars in the race:
The Fuzz
The Mudslinger
The Long-Hauler
The Weekend Warrior
The Speed Racer
The Trash Talker
The Cool Bus
The EMT
See how many you run across in YOUR caching travels! Have fun and thanks for the ride.
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