2010 IB5000 Leg 2 - Denver, CO, to Spartanburg, SC
Riders, please remember that the Iron Butt 5000 is a Rally, not a race. You are put on notice that all bonus locations and in many cases local police departments and/or park police near bonus locations have been notified of our approximate arrival time in their area.
Packing List
Rider Item
____ Leg 2 – Denver to Spartanburg
____ Fuel Log
____ Ask Rallymaster if there are any changes or corrections
____ Before leaving the checkpoint, make sure you can find each Bonus location and have a clear
understanding of what is required to earn the bonus.
WARNING: DO NOT LEAVE THIS AREA UNTIL YOU HAVE VERIFIED THAT ALL PAPERWORK IS IN YOUR RALLY PACKAGE. THIS IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!
In order to be scored, you must present this bonus listing with score sheet and fuel log. You are free to tear apart and remove any pages that are not needed (for example, on page 10, you decide you will skip all the bonuses in South America, you may remove that page). However, if you lose a page from the bonus listing, you may not claim any bonuses on that page. If you lose the fuel log page, you will get no points for a fuel log.
IMPORTANT CAUTION: The following Potential Bonus locations are like a restaurant menu. If you order everything on the menu and eat it, you are going to get sick and perhaps die. Please pick and choose bonus destinations carefully!
NOTE: All times are local!
REMEMBER: Unless otherwise specified, I.D. Flags are required in all photos.
When you are out there bonus hunting, remember: the bonus is not bagged until you complete the paperwork!
Checkpoint Information
The final checkpoint is Saturday, August 21, 10 am to Noon, Spartanburg, SC.
Spartanburg Marriott
299 North Church Street
Spartanburg, South Carolina 29306
N34 57.247 W81 56.069
Rally staff will be available at 6 a.m. for early check-in.
Time penalty begins 10:00:01 a.m. After 10:00:00 a.m. there will be a 5-point per minute penalty for being late. "Minutes" will be rounded up at one second past the key time. For example, 10:00:01 (one second past 10:00 a.m.) will be counted as 1 minute late. Any rider who arrives after 12:00pm (12:00:01 p.m.) will not receive credit for making this checkpoint, will not receive bonus points for this leg of the rally, and will not be considered a finisher.
Contact: Lisa Landry xxx-xxx-xxxx
It’s all about Eddie!!
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500 points total to obtain points for fuel purchase records; riders must submit a receipt for every fuel purchase with the following information on the receipt: 1) location (city/town and state), 2) date, 3) time, and 4) volume (gallons or liters) purchased.
If any of the required information is not printed on a receipt, it must be hand written on the receipt. Any error in the printed date should also be corrected by hand. (Errors in the printed time need not be corrected IF YOU ARE KEEPING A FUEL LOG.) Also write the telephone number of the station on the receipt if you correct an error other than a time error. Motorcycles with a fuel capacity of 7.0 or more U.S. gallons also complete the "fuel log" sheet provided at the previous checkpoint. The fuel log requires all of the same information as required on receipts plus the odometer reading and the correct time the purchase was made. Remember that no points for fuel purchase records will be awarded to any rider that refuels between checking in and starting the next leg.
Code: GAS Approved: ______
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Phoenix, AZ4912 points Thursday only 10 am – 4pm
Kafka Inc.
10443 N. Cave Creek Road. Suite 101
Phoenix, Arizona 85020
N33 34.922 W112 03.078
(602) 943-8119
Steve Kafka is a legendary pinstriper. Eddie thought he was the best anywhere. His work is stunning, and has been featured in countless magazines, as well as on motorcycles, cars, trucks, boats, airplanes that have won innumerable awards around the world. Not many know—but Steve is also the inventor of the Kool-Tie (you know—the ones that absorb water and hold it for hours keeping you cool as you wear it?)
This bonus will “tie” Steve’s specialties together.
Purchase a Kafka Kool-Tie. You will only need to turn in a receipt showing the purchase. At no extra charge—Steve will also stripe his custom Eddie James logo on your bike. He’ll have some cloths available for you to clean off the area that you want the logo painted on. You may elect to remove the logo later if you choose, but you must show the logo at the finish in Spartanburg to claim this bonus.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: KPSApproved: ______
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Live Oak Resort2323 pointsAvailable Friday 9am – 3pm
9751 Lone Star Road
Washington, TX 77880
N30 20.207 W96 13.414
Visit the snack bar and spend an hour with the friendly folks at Eddie’s favorite resort.
Note: you must arrive no later than 2 pm in order to fulfill this bonus. Sign in and out with Allen Dye; he’ll be enjoying all the resort has to offer. Don’t bother being late.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: LOR Approved: ______
Mendocino, CA area 9000 points Available daylight hours
Point Cabrillo Light Station and Nature Preserve
N39 20.990 W123 48.781
Take a photo of the Light Station.
From Robert Higdon’s 2005 IBR report:
Sometimes they make it too easy for us here at The Daily Planet. Our cub reporters in their capes and blue tights scurry around all day looking for the lead story. Yesterday one of them --- the story, not the cub reporter --- fell right into our lap. Take a look at the scores of Eddie James and George Zelenz, for example. Eddie is in fourth place today, trying to figure out how to ride ten straight miles without cramping, creaking, or cringing. George Barnes tells rookies that they must adapt their bikes so that the machine is the most comfortable place on earth for them to be. Eddie's bike isn't like that these days. He's trying to recover from a terrible accident in the final hours of the last Iron Butt Rally. His isn't a BMW dual-sport bike; it's an ordeal with wheels. His leg locks up; he can't walk without an occasional shiver of pain wrinkling his face; aspirin is another basic food group for him. Instead of being on a motorcycle, he needs to be pruning his skin in the hot tub where George Zelenz hangs out.
At the Cabrillo lighthouse bonus in Mendocino, California, Eddie entered by the handicapped access road and took the required photo. No one at the scoring table would have questioned for one second his right to do exactly that. But some fellow riders saw him and a few predictable razzes were shouted out. Eddie knows a no-win situation when he sees it, having created a few of them by himself in the past, so he curled back around into the main lot, limped a quarter-mile toward the lighthouse to take a second photo, and headed off to his next stop, grimacing a bit as he usually does these days.
That's one way to do it, what we call the good faith effort. George Zelenz took a different approach. In the main parking lot he tossed his identification towel on a bush, took the picture, and departed. Total steps taken: maybe eight. When Zelenz presented the photo at the scoring table last night, an immediate problem arose: No one could identify a man-made structure anywhere in the picture, much less a lighthouse. The issue was bounced up to Tom Austin, the chief scorer. Austin saw the vague, tiny outline of what may have been a tree, but the lighthouse apparently was behind even that. Tom showed me the photo and asked if I could see anything. "I'm sure I'll be able to," I said, "as soon as I run this crap through an electron microscope." Bonus denied. Zelenz said he would protest. "Be my guest," Austin shrugged. I'm not sure how the appeal was decided, but the laughter heard in the chambers of the Supreme Court probably doesn't bode well for the rider.
Eddie James might make it to Maine. He might even make it back to Denver if his painkillers hold out. When it's over, he won't be in fourth place. You can ask only so much of bones and muscles that hurt too much already. He can drive you absolutely crazy, but he can also shine, sometimes as brightly and intently as the Cabrillo lighthouse. REH
It's approximately .5 mile walk to the Light Station. Take the same walk Eddie did 5 years ago.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: ZELApproved: ______
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Montgomery, AL172 pointsAvailable 24 hours
Rosa Parks Library and Museum
252 Montgomery Street
N32 22.588 W86 18.678
Take a photo of the Historical Marker that isn’t about Rosa Parks outside of the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: ROSApproved: ______
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Buzzard Roost, AL 186 points Available 24 hours
N34 45.600 W88 01.380
Take a photo of the plaque commemorating Levi Colbert in the Buzzard Roost Spring Rest Area on the Natchez Trace Parkway, milepost 320.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: BUZApproved: ______
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Rockford, AL 207 pointsAvailable 24 hours
Super Secret Celebrity Site
Along west side of Jackson St, between AL-22 & Linn St
N32 53.433 W086 13.200
Take a photo of this celebrity’s grave.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: FRDApproved: ______
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Louisiana Purchase State Park, AR 214 points Available 6 am – 9 pm
At the east end of AR-362, going west from US-49
N34 38.738 W91 03.235
Take a photo of the surveyor’s granite monument.
From the parking lot, follow the board walk to the granite monument that marks the location of the point from which all surveys of the property acquired through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 initiated.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: LOUApproved: ______
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Teec Nos Pos Post Office, AZ 86514 312 pointsAvailable 24 hours
On US-160, 0.1 mile N of US-64
N36 55.304 W109 05.130
Take a photo of the Teec Nos Pos Post Office.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: TEEApproved: ______
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Montezuma Pass 198 pointsAvailable Daylight Hours Coronado National Memorial
N31 21.064 W110 17.120
Take a photo of the sign showing the elevation at Montezuma Pass. Motorcycle must be in the photo.
Approximately 12 miles west of Palominas, AZ. The road to the pass from the Visitor Center includes about 2 miles of dirt/gravel.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: CNMApproved: ______
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Tombstone, AZ area 89 points Available 24 hours
Schieffelin Monument
Approximately 3 miles NW of Tombstone
N31 43.829 W110 06.204
Take a photo of the 25 foot Schieffelin Monument
Ed Schieffelin became wealthy from mining silver in the area, naming his claim the "tombstone". The town that developed was named for the mining claim. When Schieffelin died in 1897, he was buried in his miner's clothes, along with mining implements, near his original claim, in accordance with his will. The monument that was erected resembles a miner's claim marker.
From Tombstone, the monument can be reached by riding west on Allen St and following the signs for the monument. This route includes 1.5 miles of dirt road.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: TMBApproved: ______
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Joshua Tree National Park, CA 333 pointsAvailable daylight hours
N33 59.365 W116 09.830
Take a photo of the on-going unofficial Gram Parsons Memorial at Cap Rock. The Memorial is at the base of the north side of Cap Rock (opposite side from the parking lot).
Gram Parsons and fellow musician-friend Keith Richards loved getting away to Cap Rock in Joshua Tree to smoke marijuana and watch for UFOs. After Gram died, a friend of his stole his body from the cargo area of LAX (where it was about to be shipped back to Louisiana for burial) and brought him back to Joshua Tree. In accordance with a pact he and Gram had made previously, Gram’s body was burned there at Cap Rock.
Cap Rock is along Keys View Rd, 0.2 miles south of the junction of Keys View Rd & Park Blvd (the main road of the northern part of the park). From the parking lot on the south side of Cap Rock, the memorial is a short walk along the loop trail, around to the north side of Cap Rock.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: CAPApproved: ______
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Stewarts Point, CA area89 pointsAvailable 24 hours
Haupt Creek Bridge
N38 39.686 W123 19.317
Take a photo of the Historic Bridge sign at the Haupt Creek Bridge
The 134-foot long, single lane, truss bridge was constructed in 1909, and is located approximately 5.8 miles east of Stewarts Point, CA, on the Stewarts Point - Skaggs Springs Road.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: SPTApproved: ______
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Hollister, CA 510 pointsAvailable 9am-2pm
Wizard's Cafe
2360 Technology Pkwy
N36 53.626 W121 24.031
Pick up a receipt for any food purchase at “Wizard’s Café”.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: WIZApproved: ______
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Kelso, CA 118 pointsAvailable 24 hours
Kelso Depot
Junction of Kelbaker Road & Kelso-Cima Road
N35 00.754 W115 39.146
Take a photo of the front of the depot building showing "Kelso".
Kelso Depot was originally part of the Union Pacific rail system. The building has been renovated to become the Visitor Center for the Mojave National Preserve.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: KELApproved: ______
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Felicity, CA312 points Available 24 hours
Center of the World
N32 45.009 W114 45.906
Take a photo of either the Pyramid, the Eiffel Tower Spiral Staircase, or the Arm of God Sundial.
Within the pyramid is the self-proclaimed "official" center of the world. The spiral staircase is an original section removed from the Eiffel Tower for safety reasons. The sundial's arm is based on Michelangelo's Arm Of God painting in the Sistine Chapel. Access to the site is via a short gravel driveway. Along northern frontage road of I-8, 1/2 mile west of exit 164 (Sidewinder Rd)
Felicity will not show up on most maps. This area is in southeastern CA about 8 miles west of Yuma, AZ.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: CENApproved: ______
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Palm Springs, CA127 pointsAvailable 24 hours
Sonny Bono Sculpture
155 S Palm Canyon Dr,
Between Ruby's Diner & Maracas Restaurant
N33 49.325 W116 32.812
Take a photo of the life size sculpture of Sonny Bono.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: SONApproved: ______
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Kingsland, GA543 pointsAvailable 11am - 9pm
Jack’s Bar-B-Que
1359 Scrubby Bluff Road
N30 45.626 W81 39.487
Pick up a receipt for any purchase from Jack’s.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: JACApproved: ______
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Stone Mountain, GA187 pointsAvailable 6am - midnight
Stone Mountain Park
1000 Robert E Lee Drive
N33 48.739 W84 08.595
Take a photo of the carving on Stone Mountain with Memorial Hall in the foreground.
Admission is $10.00
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: STMApproved: ______
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Gay, GA 114 pointsAvailable 24 hours
US Post OfficeGAY, GA 30218-9998
18685 Oakland Rd/GA -85
N33 05.587 W84 34.464
Take a photo of the Gay Post Office.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: GGAApproved: ______
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Savannah, GA 118 pointsAvailable 9am – 6pm
Fort Pulaski National Monument
N32 01.648 W80 53.527
Get a passport stamp at Fort Pulaski National Monument
Fort Pulaski National Monument is on an island adjacent to US-80 about 15 miles east of Savannah.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: PULApproved: ______
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Atlanta,GA650 points Available Daylight hours
Crest Lawn Memorial Park
2000 Marietta Blvd.NW
N33 48.667 W84 26.596
Take a photo of the bench inscribed”Far away is far away only if you don't go there."
The inscription was one of Eddie’s favorite sayings and the bench is a memorial to our friend. He’s giggling having brought you here since Atlanta traffic sucks.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: BENApproved: ______
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Atlanta, GA 74 points Available Sun-Thurs10:00am-11:30pm
The Varsity Fri –Sat 10:00am-12:30am
61 North Ave NW
N33 46.277 W84 23.347
Pick up a receipt for any food item at Atlanta landmark “The Varsity”...... ”What’ll YOU have?”
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: VARApproved: ______
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Columbus, GA89 pointsAvailable 24 hours
Outside Best Buy, 2925 Manchester Expy
N32 30.398 W84 56.854
Take a photo of “Kadie the Cow”.
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Metropolis, IL89 pointsAvailable 24 hours
Market St & Superman Square
N37 09.145 W88 43.963
Take a photo of everyone's favorite superhero.
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Summit, IL 121 points Available Mon-Thurs 10am – 11pm
El Famous Friday 9:30a – 3am
6159 S Archer Rd
N41 46.760 W87 48.787
Purchase any food item and bring back the receipt.
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Clear Lake, IA area 121 pointsAvailable Daylight hours only
Near the intersection of 315th Street & Gull Avenue
N43 13.220 W93 22.577
Take a photo of the Monument commemorating “the day the music died...... ”
The monument is located in a cornfield down an unpaved lane approximately 1/2 mile west of where 315th Street meets Gull Avenue, on private property. The route includes approximately ¾
mile of gravel road.
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Des Moines, IA78 pointsAvailable 24 hours
Big Daddy's Bar-B-Que
1000 E 14th St
N41 35.927 W93 35.992
Eddie loved the food at Big Daddy’s. Sadly, Big Daddy’s is no longer open but you can take a photo of the front of the building and still get points. No Q but you’ll live.
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Des Moines, IA214 pointsAvailable 8am-4pm
Glendale Cemetery
4909 University Ave
N41 36.230 W93 41.545
Take a photo of the grave of Edmund James.
Eddie’s father always thought it would be fun to be part of a motorcycle rally. It never happened, so today we’re going to take the event to him.
Proceed through gates and follow road curving to the left (west) Follow main road as it curves to left and proceed all the way to the western end of the cemetery. At the far western end of the cemetery look for the 25’ flagpole in the field area. Between the flagpole and the road you’re on, find the granite marker titled Block 51.The grave of Edmund James is in the 2nd row behind and 1 space to the left of the Block 51 marker.
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: DADApproved: ______
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Coffeyville, KS171 points Available 24 hours
Big Johnson
Near the intersection of E 8th St & Park Ave
N37 02.142 W95 35.587
Take a photo of the monument to Walter Johnson
Date:______Time: ______Odometer: ______Code: BIGApproved: ______
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Greensburg, KS241 pointsAvailable Daylight hours
Along S Sycamore St, between W Wisconsin Ave & W Iowa Ave
N37 36.208 W99 17.660
Take a photo from the top of the well showing the stairs leading down to the bottom.
Greensburg is home to the deepest hand-dug well in the world. With it being KS and all, you can bet that folks came from miles around to swoon at the magnificence of this hole in the ground.