Does anyone know where to find some information about the 2009 Cross Country Trip? Is there a website for it? I believe they are recreating the New York to Seattle ride???

Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

Steve

The web site is www.oceantoocean-in-a-t.com Im siganed up and can't wait to get started..

Duane, check you gas often, watch the hills and you will have a great trip.

You left out the -llc in your address.

This address will work better:

http://www.oceantoocean-in-a-t-llc.com/

Another question please! Why did the race end by going northwest, rather than just going west to San Francisco?

Was the Grand Canyon passable back then?

Chief Seattle promised a contract to buy 500 cars of the winning make...

I think this would be a reason for the Seattle finish: "The contest, sponsored by the millionaire Robert Guggenheim, was part of a publicity campaign for the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in Seattle that year."

Six years before, the first transcontinental crossing by automobile was made by a Winton driven by H.N. Jackson and, almost simultaneously, a Packard dubbed "Old Pacific" driven by a Packard plant foreman, Tom Fetch. Jackson avoided the Sierra Nevada by going northeast from San Francisco into Oregon, then east. Fetch paralleled the transcontinental railroad through the Sierra, then Nevada, and Utah as far as Salt Lake. Jackson followed the railroad through Wyoming and Nebraska. Fetch took on the Rockies, going by way of Grand Junction and the route that would later become US 50. East of the Front Range he turned north to Denver, and from there went northeast to Nebraska. The eastern part of the trip, on to New York, was about the same for both cars. Jackson's Winton suffered a major mechanical breakdown, and he had to wait for replacement parts to arrive by train. The summer of 1903 was exceptionally wet, and both cars encountered numerous muddy bogs. Jackson had no qualms about having the Winton pulled out by horses. Fetch wanted to be able to say truthfully that the Packard crossed the continent entirely under its own power, so he would only allow it to be towed backward to solid ground where he could drive it forward, sometimes by a less muddy path and sometimes at top speed to get through a short muddy stretch. There's a great account of this crossing in the most recent issue of the Packard Cormorant, with a lot of neat photos.

The Grand Canyon has never been passable except for going down the river by boat/raft or over it by air. The nearest crossings are at Navajo Bridge, upriver from the caņon, and at Hoover Dam, way downriver.