Flat Tire

FLAT TIRE is competing in the Race and the goal is to travel to Texas, then Florida, then Maine, then Minnesota, then Washington and finally California. Please help FLAT TIRE circumnavigate the conterminous United States, making these required "stops" along the way.

These are some of the rules:

1. Travel bugs will follow a counter-clockwise route around the US. The required stops are at lease one cache placement in the following states: California (starting state and cache), Texas, Florida, Maine, Minnesota, Washington, and back to the starting cache IN THAT ORDER. The bugs must trace the states in this order so any skipping of these goal states means backtracking. All other states and countries can be skipped.

2. Bugs must be physically placed in a cache in each state visited. No "I was here with the bug" logs, someone else has to retrieve the bug after placement.

3. After the start, no TB racer owners can handle ANY of the racers. The actions of third parties are not under the owners' control. They have a long race to run, so negative interference is not encouraged. Please be considerate and fair to the racers and help them on the way.

4. After the start, no more than two race bugs may be placed in any given cache.

Please see the race web page for more details: http://users.rcn.com/brad.32/geocaching/tbrace.htm

Please help FLAT TIRE to get around the country as fast as possible and before January 1, 2005.

Normally, a FLAT TIRE is something everyone wants to avoid, but in this case, moving FLAT TIRE quickly to its next destination will certainly bring you good luck.