2007 Interstate 10 Geocoin

A tribute to the mostly unappreciated truckers that travel Interstate 10.... from the Atlantic to the Pacific and then back again.

This geocoin's mission is to traverse the length of I-10 forever... keeping our geocaching truckers company! Please move it along and place it in trucker accessible caches.

Interstate 10 From Wikipedia

Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost east–west, coast-to-coast Interstate Highway in the United States. It stretches from the Pacific Ocean at State Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) in Santa Monica, California to Interstate 95 in Jacksonville, Florida. I-10 intersects with nine of the 10 primary north–south interstates (all except I-85) and also with the major Interstate routes I-17, I-19 and I-20.

In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan's storm surge pushed up and washed out part of I-10 at the causeway over Escambia Bay near Pensacola, Florida. Westbound lanes had only a couple of sections missing, while eastbound lanes were almost completely gone for a quarter-mile. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the I-10 Twin Span Bridge, a portion of I-10 between New Orleans and Slidell spanning the eastern end of Lake Pontchartrain, was severely damaged, causing a break in I-10 at that point. Unlike the Escambia Bay Bridge (east of Pensacola, Florida and damaged by Hurricane Ivan) which is a major artery, Interstate 12 is available to bypass New Orleans and taking I-12 to the Lake Ponchartrain Causeway allowed entry and exit to and from the Greater New Orleans area from the East. On October 14, 2005 at 3:00 PM, the eastbound span was reopened to two way traffic. On January 6, 2006 at 6:00 AM, both lanes of the westbound span were reopened to traffic using temporary metal trusses and road panels to replace damaged sections. This restored all four lanes of the I-10 twin spans for normal traffic with a 45 mph speed limit for the westbound lanes and 60 mph for the eastbound lanes. Oversized and overweight traffic was prohibited until a new permanent six lane span replaced the two temporarily repaired spans. The eastbound span opened to traffic on July 9, 2009, and the westbound span opened on April 7, 2010, with the old bridge being permanently closed. The approaches to the westbound lanes are still to be completed and the old Twin Spans will be demolished.