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This is how the Circumglobal Trophy Dash works:
We'll send you the complete set of maps and the book of round-the-world instructions.
You may enter any time between Labor Day and the entry deadline, Columbus Day - October 12.
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You'll travel, at your kitchen table or wherever you want, an hour or two at a time whenever you want, on a continuous course around the world, all on maps, along highways and bush tracks, over mountains and across the seven seas.
Usually there's a challenge involved. Alertness counts. Along the way, you'll be asked questions to see if you're on the correct course.
You have until October 22 to send in your answers. Then custom-designed awards go to the top circumnavigators, those who've done the best in avoiding the bushwhackers and snares.
What kinds of instructions and questions? Here's an example from last fall's competition:
 In Transylvania:
9. Turn left after having gone through Sabaoani.
Question: Which of these do you see:
Dracula; Vulturesti; or Zombii?
[The answer was Vulturesti, the town east of Roman.]
Where would you like to go?
We'll take you around the world!
Last fall we went to Ecuador and Peru, then from South America to the Ivory Coast, then up to Romania [Transylvania!], then to Mandalay, Australia, and Papua New Guinea, and finally home again!
In 2011 we went to Trinidad, then from there to Leeds in England and to London -- to help check out this summer's Olympics venues and to run the marathon course. From England we went to Austria, then to Malaysia and Japan, then home.
In 2010 we went to Honduras and the Ivory Coast, to Malta (the Mediterranean one) and the Levant, to Australia and Papua New Guinea, then home.
In 2009 we went to Panama and Morocco, then to Spain and England, then to the Arabian desert and onward to Australia, then to the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver (where you devised a new Olympic event, the One-and-a-Halflon -- a 1-myriameter cross-country skiing course with a half-end of curling at its midpoint), then home.
To the top competitors go custom-designed Circumglobal Trophy Dash awards.
Plus, local champion certificates go to the best from each state, province, and country.
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To receive a Circumglobal Trophy Dash brochure in the mail next August, in advance of the 2013 competition, just send The Old Maltese an email request mentioning the Trophy Dash, with your street mailing address, or mail a note to us at:
Circumglobal Trophy Dash
P.O. Box 53
La Caņada, California 91012
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