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Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/t/e/a/teamcpx/html/blog/index.php:7) in /home/content/t/e/a/teamcpx/html/blog/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php on line 8 Okay so check this out, never thought that I would be able to say that I’ve been running through the corn fields of Arkansas doing 100 but now its apart of our personal history. Seriously there is nothing like going down a two-way two lane highway with nothing but corn on the left of you and corn on the right of you. Our missions had gotten harder, hard to the point where we had no idea if we were even in the right place. We got through our missions but it took much longer than expected. There is a reason for that… Prior to this day Shaun lost his lucky penny and it all went to hell since then. Luckily though as we passed through Pontiac Illinois (via route 66) I found an antique coin place and got Shaun and a couple of lucky pennies. So after that we got our mojo back and we are pulling back into the race looking to finish in the top 5.
Seriously if you can withstand the cold of Illinois winters… this is a place to live we were in Dupage Illinois and there were some insane property with all of the comforts of a big city just 20 min away. ]]>Then we had to do an autocross set up by the Tuscloosa police. This was no normal autocross, I don’t think you can even call it that. It was more an obstacle course with very tight figure eight turns and circles. Most cars could not make it through the course without backing up and doing 2-3 point turns through some parts. Then to top it off they made us wear these goggles that simulated being drunk. It made it very hard to see especially trying to figure out distances. It looked like there was cones everywhere. In fact I hit the first five cones off the start and that was just a straight part.. By the end I had knocked down a total of 14 cones which put us in 25th out of 43. So apparently I’m not very good at driving drunk, it was definitely a lot harder than I thought it would be. On a good note one of our missions was to bring children’s books to city hall. Carlton being the good guy that he is bought 260 books! That was the 2nd most out of everyone and as a reward the top 3 got a key to the city of Tuscaloosa from the mayor himself. So Carlton now has the key to the city.. watch out! Right now we are done with todays missions and about to do another autocross to finish the day off. This one looks like a normal one. Carlton is going to give this one a shot. Today went much better so far, we placed somewhere in the top 10 for the missions part. More on todays missions and the autocross later.. TJ ]]>Next stop, Jackson Mississippi! Of course it wouldn’t be an adventure if it were as simple as get to Jackson… So to get one of our bonus points we had to find the grave site of the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde. We took a turn that we thought would get us to the grave, HOWEVER we ended up in the back roads of the back roads. The Charger being the low to the ground car that it is, was basically shoveling rocks as we traversed the rocky path. Now think about this, rocky ass road, NO cell signals and NO internet… yup if something went wrong we would have been completely screwed. Then we ended up here Lucky for us we got across this and guess what we actually ended up right where we needed to be. Go freaking figure! Any how we ended up in Jackson Mississippi with the car fully intact. Tomorrow is going to be a hell of a day as we should end up in Tuscaloosa after around 7hrs of driving. ]]>
So if we know where we are going then hey we might as well get the bonus points along the way!!
We ended up today in Shreveport Louisiana, there are TONS of casinos here. Staying at a kick ass Hilton and seriously… good thing because the team is beat, it’s definetly going to be an early night. ]]>Shaun is racing against a couple of lamborghini’s, a couple of chargers, and tons of other cool cars. This is the official kick off to the “game”. More later… So Shaun ended up ninth with an impressive time of 00:01:43.0505 on a 2 mile JETS Police Race Track Overall TeamCPX is in 2nd place overall  vroom You can check our progress here ]]>This is the prequel to the cross journey adventure that we are soon to partake in. Fireball Run here we come!! Check out some of the pics http://teamcpx.com/neworleans.html ]]>
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