Monday, September 18, 2006

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE TRAVEL: Watching TAR kick off in a drizzle last night in my much-missed hometown, and imagining how I would have beat everybody to the airport (Gas Works to I-5? I scoff!), I started thinking: how would I design a leg in Seattle?

Answer: Take a bus from the airport to downtown. Find the Pike Place Market. Detour: Catch Fish or Cut Bait. Teams must choose either to sell x number of large fish, throw, catch, and wrap them at the market at the end of Pike Street, or they can choose to run all the way down the stairs to Elliot Bay, find the Aquarium, prepare x pounds of chum to feed the sharks, then run back up the stairs (this is a very long way up) to get the next clue. Then take a rental car to the house in Montlake that has bronze statues buried in the driveway (think of frozen Han Solo for the effect -- this is pretty esoteric locals-only knowledge; even with an address it would be hard but not impossible), where the next clue sends teams to Husky Stadium. There, they have a road block: one person has to canoe into the marshes and find the next clue. From there, it's bicycles uphill to the Drumheller Fountain on the UW campus (where hopefully the Mountain is out) and the pit stop.

How would you design a leg in your neck of the woods?

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