 One End of Route 66
A cache by Panther in the Den Hidden: 2/17/2006
Size:  (Micro) Difficulty:  Terrain:  (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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As with many caches in an urban setting, the buildings will give
your GPSr fits. Be sure to check the maps before heading out and as
always the hint can be a big help.
This is an offset cache. Get near. Find the sign. Walk 13 paces east. Find the cache. Have Fun!
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The start of The Mother Road! (... or end depending which way you
are travelling. :) )
In the 1950s, Route 66 became the main highway for vacationers
heading to Los Angeles. The road passed through the Painted Desert
and near the Grand Canyon. Meteor Crater in Arizona was another
popular stop. This sharp rise in tourism in turn gave rise to a
burgeoning trade in all manner of roadside attractions including
teepee-shaped motels, frozen custard stands, Indian curio shops,
and reptile farms. Meramec Caverns near St. Louis began advertising
on barns, billing itself as the "Jesse James hideout." The Big
Texan advertised a free 72 ounce steak dinner to anyone who could
eat the whole thing in an hour. It also marked the birth of the
fast-food industry: Red's Giant Hamburgs in Springfield, Missouri,
site of the first drive-thru restauraunt, and the first McDonald's
in San Bernardino. Changes like these to the landscape further
cemented 66's reputation as a near-perfect microcosm of the culture
of America, now linked by the automobile.
Thanks to Greenback for allowing me to reuse his cache container
from the now archived 'Advance to Go' series
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2 user(s) watching this cache.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)
snpr gur qbbe bs gur terra guvat naq ernpu haqre(Decrypted Hints)
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Current Time: 2/10/2010 1:21:55 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (9:21 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 2/8/2010 5:52:32 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (1:52 AM GMT)
Rendered: From Database
Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
