Inaugural FJ40 Cross-Country Expedition Official ''baton'' thread

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so with details of FJ40 Cross-Country Expedition: Will YOU join us???
starting to come together, it looks like multiple batons are going to be in order.
several suggestions from the thread include:
a briefcase, to be stickered upon and filled with local points or pints of interest. and handed off with cloak and dagger like meetings, in broad day light and crowded places.
a broken birfield joint, to be handed off.
an empty tool roll, to be filled with tools as it makes the journey.
there was a go pro mentioned as well, but if there is one, shouldn't each
"baton'' have one to go hand in hand with it?
the brief case seems to be popular, however should it be several cases? or should it go full monopoly and each of the player pieces be something different and completely unrelated in every way but the trip they are on?
 
Brief case and a birf is my vote.
 
Definitely a briefcase, hopefully just one
 
I think it should be more Toyota/Land Cruiser specific. I suggested this in the original thread but didn't get much shine so I'll mention it here on the "official baton discussion" thread. :flipoff2: It would be cool to get someone to donate a Toyota jerry can and then each driver can affix a club sticker or state sticker to it. Or just maybe sign it with a sharpie including the model and year of their Cruiser. Maybe we could get a certain museum curator to find a spot for it among the Toyota awesomeness in SLC. Might be a stretch but who knows. If we can get it around the world then for sure it would have a place. Now I'm just talking crazy!
 
iptman said:
I think it should be more Toyota/Land Cruiser specific. I suggested this in the original thread but didn't get much shine so I'll mention it here on the "official baton discussion" thread. :flipoff2: It would be cool to get someone to donate a Toyota jerry can and then each driver can affix a club sticker or state sticker to it. Or just maybe sign it with a sharpie including the model and year of their Cruiser. Maybe we could get a certain museum curator to find a spot for it among the Toyota awesomeness in SLC. Might be a stretch but who knows. If we can get it around the world then for sure it would have a place. Now I'm just talking crazy!
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I second that one.
 
I expect that the relay will be shared mainly though pictures being posted in that the Baton will never have a shared place to reside.

In the pictures of the various legs of the journey, I'd like to see at least one shot from each leg with the baton centered in some characteristic location from that region so the pictures could be assembled later in a montage.

Briefcase at the St Louis arch, briefcase at the statue of liberty, briefcase on the bar in Margaritaville, Key West... you get the picture.
 
Cleg said:
I expect that the relay will be shared mainly though pictures being posted in that the Baton will never have a shared place to reside.

In the pictures of the various legs of the journey, I'd like to see at least one shot from each leg with the baton centered in some characteristic location from that region so the pictures could be assembled later in a montage.

Briefcase at the St Louis arch, briefcase at the statue of liberty, briefcase on the bar in Margaritaville, Key West... you get the picture.
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Ever see the foreign film "Amelie"? The daughter mails her father's lawn gnome to different countries and has pictures taken of it in recognizable places to try and convince her dad to travel more.
 
Another easy way to tag the states the baton goes thru......

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I like the attaché case idea as well... I also like the idea of it traveling all over the world... Kinda a no time constraint ... Pass it off to the next guy and next guy has it for a spell and gets it to another and so on... But that can be for another trans continental journey :)

Would be cool to have marks case and it travel and return to mark as the last man
 
brian said:
I don't get this one?
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I was merely thinking of how to additionally document which states the baton as been thru, thus attaching some sort of key chain type of tag showing the states......but I'll digress.
 
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JohnnyC said:
I like the attaché case idea as well... I also like the idea of it traveling all over the world... Kinda a no time constraint ... Pass it off to the next guy and next guy has it for a spell and gets it to another and so on... But that can be for another trans continental journey :)

Would be cool to have marks case and it travel and return to mark as the last man
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Not the first time I've been used as a repository for old things. I guess that's kinda how I ended up with the cellphone in the first place.
 
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I love that cell phone... I got my 1st cell phone still a 1989 Motorola flip phone ... Walking around with that thing on your hip you felt like you were the bomb ... Today they would think it's one :meh:


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Would love to stick a "broken broken birfield bar" sticker on your attaché
 
If somehow we end up linking the Western Leg, then we could have the baton sort of take the longest possible route... like the red arrow below.

Everything else would then become a "feed Leg" into the main Leg... so you would only need one "Primary Baton???"


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I for one like the briefcase idea...


Those flip phones... they made you feel like you had arrived! And calling friends, and saying "guess where I'm calling you from???" Priceless...
 
hecrod said:
Those flip phones... they made you feel like you had arrived! And calling friends, and saying "guess where I'm calling you from???" Priceless...
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I felt the same when we first got a TV, when I was 5... Even though the only programming was from Mexicali, Baja California, in Spanish... And was so snowy, you could barely make out a picture... Still, we had arrived!!

Plus, we had a two-holer outhouse... It don't get no better than that!!

Life was so much simpler back then...
 
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