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Celebrating the centennial of the New York to Paris race, our team will retrace the route of the winning Thomas Flyer in our own 1908-vintage White automobile. Our White “Learning Journey” racer is currently under construction and expected to be race-ready by early 2007. Our journey will trace the Thomas Flyer's route as closely as possible, stopping in the same towns on the same dates — but with some important planned detours (and that is why we call our entry in the race, “A Learning Journey”). Dedicated stops at schools along the way will allow our team to make presentations to students stimulating hands-on learning, online communication and international tracking with other schools as we move through different countries and cultures along the route. We hope to inspire student interest in history, geography, culture, and adventure. A unique multimedia presentation, “One Hundred Years Ago Today”, will include a history of each specific town as well as a comparison of life in the present to that when the Thomas Flyer passed through in 1908. Students will experience the driver's arrival and can ask questions, receive autographs, or perhaps even take a short ride in this historic vehicle. This brief visit will allow our “Learning Journey” partners to present information on their service sponsorship and support for the project. After the brief stop at each school, our car and team will depart to continue their remarkable round-the-world journey. Some team partners may remain to help establish communications to the project site and to the other schools along the route. Project involvement goes beyond each school visit. This website will track the journey as it happens with daily updates with audio, photographs, and video whenever possible. In addition, we will provide information and contact for each school visited around the world. Not only will students learn about their own town a century ago, but other towns, people, geography and cultures as well — past and present. Students will be able to communicate with these other schools to compare reactions and to foster international awareness and pride. |
The “Learning Journey” Itinerary: |
| February 2008 | ||||||
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 New York, New York | 13 Fonda, New York | 14 Canastoga, New York | 15 Geneva, New York | 16 Buffalo, New York |
| 17 Erie, New York | 18 ************ Snow Day ************ | 19 Kendalville, Ohio | 20 Williams, Indiana | 21 ************ Snow Day ************ | 22 South Bend, Indiana | 23 Rolling Prarie, Indiana |
| 24 ************ Snow Day ************ | 25 Chicago, Illinois | 26 ************ Snow Day ************ | 27 ************ Snow Day ************ | 28 Clinton, Iowa | 29 Cross the Mississippi Clinton Iowa | |
| March 2008 | ||||||
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Belle Plaine, Iowa | ||||||
| 2 Logan, Iowa | 3 Omaha, Nebraska | 4 Omaha, Nebraska | 5 Omaha, Nebraska | 6 Cheyenne, Wyoming | 7 Cheyanne, Wyoming | 8 Cheyenne, Wyoming |
| 9 Cheyenne, Wyoming | 10 ************ Snow Day ************ | 11 Rock Springs, Wyoming | 12 Green River, Wyoming | 13 Evanston, Wyoming | 14 Motel 6, Somewhere | 15 Ogdon, Utah |
| 16 Promantory Point, Utah | 17 Cobre, Nevada | 18 Ely, Nevada | 19 Twin Springs, Nevada | 20 Tonopah, Nevada | 21 Tonopah, Nevada | 22 Mojave, California |
| 23 Bakersfield, Californa | 24 Oakland, California | 25 San Francisco, California | 26 On the Freighter To Yokahama, Japan | 27 In Transit Through May | 28 In Transit Through May | 29 In Transit Through May |
| 30 In Transit Through May | 31 In Transit Through May | |||||
| May 2008 | ||||||
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 XXXXXX | 2 XXXXXX | 3 XXXXXX | ||||
| 4 XXXXXX | 5 XXXXXX | 6 XXXXXX | 7 Yokahama | 8 XXXXXX | 9 XXXXXX | 10 Arrive Japan |
| 11 Kobe (Offload) | 12 Depart Kobe Arrive Maihara | 13 Depart Maihara | 14 Arrive Tsuruga | 15 Depart Tsuruga (Sea of Japan) | 16 Aboard Ship | 17 Arrive Vladivostock, Russia |
| 18 Vladivostock | 19 Vladivostock | 20 Vladivostock | 21 Vladivostock | 22 Depart Vladivostock | 23 Via Razdolnoe | 24 Via Ussurijsk |
| 25 Via Lipovcy | 26 Pogranicnyj | 27 Maintenance Layover | 28 Maintenance Layover | 29 Maintenance Layover | 30 Depart Pogranicnyj | 31 Via Suyiang, China |
| June 2008 | ||||||
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Via Maqiaohe | 2 Via Mulengzhen | 3 Via Mudanjian | 4 Via Hailin | 5 Via Hendgdaohezi | 6 Via Yabuli | 7 Via Shangzni |
| 8 Via Pigshan & Haerbin | 9 Haerbin | 10 Haerbin | 11 Haerbin | 12 Depart Haerbin | 13 Via Daq1ing | 14 Via Zalantun |
| 15 Via Yakeshi | 16 Via Manzhouli | 17 Arrive Chita, Soviet Fed. | 18 Depart Chita | 19 Via Petrovsk | 20 Via Ulan Ude | 21 Arrive Missawoia |
| 22 Depart Missawoia | 23 Via Irakutsk | 24 Via Kansk | 25 Via Abakan | 26 Via Belovo | 27 Via Tomsk | 28 Via Novosibirsk |
| 29 Via Barabinsk | 30 Arrive Omsk | |||||
| July 2008 | ||||||
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| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 Deaprt Omsk | 2 Arrive Marinovka | 3 Maintenance Layover | 4 Deaprt Marinovka | 5 Arrive Tyumen | ||
| 6 Depart Tyumen | 7 Arrive Ekatenburg | 8 Ekatenburg | 9 Deaprt Ekatenburg | 10 Arrive Nizhniytagil | 11 Depart Nizhniytagil | 12 Arrive Perm |
| 13 Depart Perm | 14 Arrive Zyatzy | 15 Zyatzy | 16 Depart Zyatzy | 17 Via Sarapul | 18 Via Kazan | 19 Via Ivanovo |
| 20 Via Nizhni Novgorod | 21 Via Murom | 22 Via Moscow | 23 Via Saint Petersburg | 24 Via Pskov | 25 Via Vilnius | 26 Via Warsaw, Poland |
| 27 Via Berlin, Germany | 28 Via Klon, Germany | 29 Via Luxemburg | 30 Paris - HOORAY!! | 31 Delerium Ensues! | ||
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