I’ll be updating this page as information becomes available for the continuation of the Dodge Journey (East) search starting Sunday morning at 9am.
Be safe. Be courteous. Buckle up and drive carefully. Remember, there can only be one winner. Enjoy the adventure and make some memories. Cheers and Best of luck!
Physical Clues (in World Wide World)
Final location of the Dodge Journey (East):
16 Donut Point Ln.
Tenants Harbor, ME 04860
Final clue: Kenniston Realty in Rockland, ME
(photo courtesy of @ccarp816)
Message from phone call (paraphrased, courtesy of Spencer):
Good job, there will be no more clues. You are within 15 miles of the Journey.
Main Street Prison Showroom -> Angeliques (Antiques) Thomaston, ME
(courtesy of Tobias)
Message from phone call (paraphrased, courtesy of Spencer):
Nice work. Be careful who share this number with. 99% of the people that are hoping to find the Journey, think they can find it from their easy chair. So, don’t undo all own your hard work.
The lands you will be traveling to will have many beautiful properties where you would like to park your Journey. Look under the first rock. One will stand out. If you see it, give the owner a call.
Solution: Continue traveling north along Rte 1 to Rockland, ME and find Kenniston Realty.
Discussion: “The first (rock)” may be a reference to The First, a bank in Rockland along Rte 1, but before Kenniston Realty. This may have confirmed the direction. As this clue was paraphrased, it may have, in fact, been worded as “Look beyond the first rock.”
Red’s Eats at Wiscasset, ME -> Sign Store on Water Street for a clue in the window:

(photo courtesy of: @hendrey)
Message from phone call:
Nice work. First things first. Be careful who share this number with. 99% of the people that are hoping to find the Journey, think they can find it from their easy chair. So, don’t undo all own your hard work.
Blend in with the locals as you head north … check out some woodworking made by hard labor.
Or Better yet. We hear antiquing is huge around here, so why not do some window shopping. There’s one in particular that’s named after the owner whose name also rhymes with what she sells. In the window, you’ll find what you’re looking for.
Solution: Travel further north along RTE 1 to Thomaston, ME and Main Street Prison Showroom, then Angeliques (Antiques)
LIVE Feed Clues
- The Dodge “guy” hangs a ME life preserver
- The Dodge “guy” eats a lobster roll (not long after the “last” online clue) while sitting on a red seat 🙂
Slideshow Clues from Day 2 at 9am
>> Full set of pictures (Source: Dodge’s Facebook page)
- Hominy Pot – New London, NH down 4A, right on Rt 11, intersection of 114
- I89 sign – 1 mile from 93 (near Concord)
- Hall and Water Streets intersection – Concord, NH
- Northwood, NH
- (more)
- Shawshank Prison car – York, Maine
- The Seashore Trolley Museum – Kennebunkport, Maine
- Street sign – Kennebunkport, Maine
- CALL sign – Portland, Maine
Final Clue: Call 207-420-8706 (BLOg, coincidence? maybe. maybe not.)
Message: Congratulations on getting this far but we can’t hold your hand for ever. This will be the last clue you’ll be able to get online. The rest will all require you get out into the real world. Head north and stop when you see the red seats. A few doors north from there, look for a sign.
Solution: Travel further north on Rte 1, to Red’s Eats in Wiscasset, ME [red s/eats]
Slideshow Clues from Day 1: Expanded Route (approx 110 miles)
>>Full set of pictures (Source: Dodge’s Facebook page)
- Ticonderoga Ferry ->
- Orwell, VT ->
- Brandon, VT ->
- Killington, VT ->
- West Bridgewater, VT ->
- Woodstock, VT ->
- White River Junction, VT ->
- Lebanon, NH ->
- 4A South, Near Enfield, NH
Google Map of partial Dodge Journey (East) route
Initial Route, from Albany, NY to Ticonderoga Ferry, VT side (approx 125 miles)
See also from this site:
- Dodge Journey Search (East) LIVE updates
- Preparing for the Dodge Journey (East) Search
- Dodge Journey Search (East)
For more information, including How to Play, visit their YouTube channel.



Found one of the stickers online that is on the life preserver…… it only has ME on it nothing else in the Oval outline
http://www.cafepress.com/thesharpfork.481819309?pid=15766866
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Gotta be near water, in the end, b/c of the life preserver. I still say it is on the ocean somewhere.
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Did y’all notice how he wiped the ‘reflection area’–not once, twice but not 3 times. LIke it is showing us something!!
As to the bumper–those are windows as you could see ‘night time come’ last night. Someone figure this out–the windows were dimmer this AM and now brighter this PM so which side would those windows be on?? West?
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meant he wiped it 3 times.
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maybe they read my comment about the windows and the half circle one
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I don’t want one of these Dodge trucks, you have to dust it off all the time…
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i just want to find it, so my life can be 210000% easier, and get home and make a warm meal, shower!!!, and hug my 3 year old. come on dodge… we’ve been at this since 6pm friday
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Big Dizzle asked for a riddle solution at 1:32. What do you make of this Steven? It sounds like a clue leading to ANP. As the kids say, that question was kind of random!
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I must have missed it. Where did the question come from? (but let me search through the comments) Thanks!
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Good find, Jenni!
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The sign shop on Water Street, 3 doors down from Red Eats, is where the sign should be. Can anyone confirm that they are actually around there? Im armchair quarterbacking now after driving homw from New Hampshire with serious road burn. I was convinced they would take the route all the way back to Albany….Im seeing Im wrong…trying to help anyone at this point I just need the agony to end!! Someone has to read that sign
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Yes, I agree. The clue should be at the Fairfield Sign Shop at 51 Water Street #C, just up from Red’s Eats. Look in the window, under the mat, on the door, on the sign for shop, if they are open today, go in and ask. I believe it will be there.
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ok we are about 20 miles north of wiscasset, the reds eats. behind the slowest people in the world. any ideas of chicken farms in the area? any ideas on the “clue sign”? thanks for the support. we owe you guys a drink, or a few! 😉 if you are riding around and see us we’re are the exhausted couple in the really dirty acura with mass plates.
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I still cannot figure out those blooming chickens!
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Just vision candy for us, rather than yesterday’s clock!
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Anyone actually finding that sign near Red’s is most likely keeping it to themselves at this point in the game. I know I would not divulge after this marathon effort if I were there. Too close to the terminus point.
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LOL – I would take the bloody sign with me!!!
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Rockland Chickens
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Backyard-Chickens-in-Rockland-Maine/220167294670167
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I saw that a while back, but didn’t find any clues. Maybe someone else will.
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Am I wrong or are those horse collars on the wall?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_collar
That would mean working horses, right?
Like here:
http://buckwheatblossomfarm.blogspot.com/
in Wiscasset.
They also have chickens.
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Yes, those are horse collars. All the props are consistent with working horses. Yesterday, the guy on the feed also made a big show of cleaning up “manure” behind the vehicle, like it took a dump on the floor. The manure fork is still on the back wall on the right.
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yes, those are horse collars… albeit old ones but definitely horse collars
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Buckwheat Blossom Farm (156 Gardiner Rd, Wiscasset 04578) uses their horses to plow. But from the looks of the photos on their blog, it would seem like the collars are too small. There’s a barn in Google maps that might match and shots of their other outbuildings show similar post and beam construction.
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It’d be pretty darned funny if some of those chickens jumped up and Shat all over the Journey…….LOL
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that would be really crappy… (im sorry i had to lol)
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Paul i stated Rockland Belfast area is know for chicken farms, but i don’t know if that fits
there is a state park near you
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Backyard chickens is a website for chicken owners…it really has nothing to do with it, there is backyard chickens for New York too, we belong to it, The sign shop on Water St is the ticket people. you need the next clue,
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Did anyone out there actually check the structures that rest directly out on Journey’s End Marina?
Journey’s End Marina
(207) 594-4444
120 Tillson Ave, #1, Rockland, ME 04841
Probably too noise there to be the correct location (with all of the watercraft out on a Sunday) but worth a look if you’re already in the neighborhood.
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Anyone here from Michigan?
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I live in NJ, but consider myself a Michigander
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Have I missed something? Has anyone found the “Red Jeep” from the phone clue?
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yes that is horse equipment for them to pull a plow or drive a cart
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Does anyone recall seeing the Item ( Blue ) hanging from his belt? Maybe a key holder for a water vessel?
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This just up on Twitter –
Dodge – Someone is within 15 miles of the East coast Dodge Journey. Stay tuned. youtube.com/dodge #JourneySearch
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I was just going to ask the same thing. They are getting it from a blog or their live chat feed.
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Dodge has to have people watching the physical clues to make sure they don’t walk off.
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I bet they have spotters out there to relay info… Probably somebody is watching that sign too so make sure nobody tampers with it
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According to the rules, if you tamper with a sign you could be disqualified. They should have someone sitting there watching those signs, and when someone takes one down, they should write down the plate number and nail a new one up.
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there was a person there b4
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I am sure they are reading your site!!! Could it be Paul?? You also stated someone else was on Water Street….
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that 15 miles away must have been on a slow road to china….. cuz that was over 1/2 an hour ago
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Steven the comments are all mixed up time wise again…….
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Yes. Out of my control. Threaded based on replies. So, if you reply, then reply to a reply … well, you get it.
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Ok all, remember, hit reply on last post.
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“woodworking made by hard labor”…there is a facebook page for a chainsaw artist named Josh Turner, Route 1, Wiscasset, whose nickname is “Chicken.” http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chicken-AKA-Josh-Turners-Chainsaw-Art-and-Fire-Shows/116883141688911
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Sorry, wanted to post at bottom, where the dodge family is buried ? where is ends
http://www.dodgefamily.org/CemeteryHeadstonePages/Maine/Edgecomb_SpringHillFarmRd/SpringHillFarmRdCemetery.shtml
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Ok so who are our front runners? We’ve got John and wife, Robin and Kathy?
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If you are talking about me “Kathy”. I am at home 😦
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and @ccarp816 on twitter
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ccarp816 carlaLYNNcarpenter
#JourneySearch everywhere we go there is a phone # with a new clue, for those following me. I don’t want to give any away! Sorry!
Interesting. Is there a third audible clue?
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Maine State Prison Showroom in Warren, ME, en route to Journey End Marina….
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Sorry Kathy I thought you were on the road. Zen do you think your in the front of the pack. This is the first I’m hearing of a 3rd audible clue. How close do you think you are?
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Not me – I am in my easy chair.
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There was music playing – nothing I recognized. I thought someone might be close outside and they didnt want us to hear
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I’m sure it means made by prisoners. They do great woodworking and sell it as part of the prison industries.
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Ah, good point! I had forgotten about that. Thomaston Prison Shop, 358 Main St., Thomaston, ME
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Thomaston is outside the 15-mile radius from Wiscasset, so is the final location somewhere between the two…?
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They never said the clue was within 15 miles, just that somebody was within 15 miles.
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Ummm. Somebody there? Journey’s end? Hello???
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Dodge We hear someone is very close. Stay tuned. youtube.com/dodge #JourneySearch
Sep 25th, 2011 1:33 PM
that is pacific time……
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theres a little light shinning on the floor boards right in front of the Journey that was not there before
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Second Post – Melissa just claimed her new Dodge Journey!
(what is wrong with this sites posting all of a sudden?)
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mine aren’t posting since about an hour ago…
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Congratulations to the winner !! Anyone know where it was?
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Congratulations Melissa!!!!! Where she find it?
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Check out the pin on the map on youtube.com/dodge. It shows where it was found.
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Posted by dodge on you tube ……The Route the Journey took
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=203853800179085189342.0004adc9017dbb03328c7&msa=0&ll=43.484812,-71.213379&spn=4.495643,8.800049
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Last Clue: Where donuts meets Mosquitoes? Interesting that we can not even goggle street the place.
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On Google maps, there is a Donut Point Road so it does show up. Pretty empty area – no Street views. Satellite shows multiple possible buildings.
I wonder if Melissa is from Maine? Or close by and knows the area?
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Thanks, Steven!
It has been fun.
O! the Joy
Ocian in view!
I always felt there was a very good chance they would span Pacific to Atlantic with this contest. For wouldn’t it have felt truncated and anticlimactic if they would have left us all 30 miles outside of the coast?
Great call on Angelique’s, by the way. I have a feeling if you and I had had a boot or two on the ground we might have been the first ones there. At least that is the way I am going to write it up in my memoirs.
Adios, amigo.
~ David
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I agree David. Been a real pleasure. Until the next adventure. Cheers!
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Steven, Thanks for all. Without your blog, The true “JOURNEY” would not have been as fun. You have been great. Thanks again.
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Hey Shawn. Thanks for the kind words and thank YOU. It was a remarkable adventure. All the best!
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I just want to say a sincere thanks to Steven for hosting the party and also thanks to a wonderful group of internet friends who came together and conducted themselves in a friendly, civil and supportive way. It doesn’t happen that often anymore on the web. Maybe I’m just hanging out in the wrong places.
This party rocked!
(sorry for the repost but the first one went in 40 posts up the list)
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I’ve been looking at that damn Time & Temperature building, (the last visual clue), out my apartment window, two blocks away for 17 years. I just dragged myself back into said apartment after traveling about 625 miles round trip; driving up dirt roads in Paradox and Schroon Lake, and sleeping in my car at Ticonderoga. I feel like I’ve just been made the butt of a cosmic joke! Regardless, I enjoyed your blog Steven and the contributions made by other bloggers. Nice to see the generosity of souls without a chance of winning the vehicle. BTW, With nothing but a U.S. atlas, an old, awkward laptop, (with a dead battery), a basic cell phone and a 1997 Subaru Outback with a non-functioning odometer, (MY search engine for the “World Wide World”), I missed an exit on the way and ended up in Bethel, VT where I witnessed some of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irene. Thinking of those people tonight. (Sorry for the double post, the other one went in the middle of the page, maybe that one can deleted? Thanks.)
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My last post seems to have been deleted?
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Steven Barley, you’re probably tired right now, but I’d love to see your write-up of this search, particularly focused not so much on the game itself but regarding the online shared experience.
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Yeah, just a bit … but not as tired as those that were on the hunt I imagine. I like your idea and will give it some serious thought – it was truly remarkable to see our community grow so quickly over the past week. Everyone had a voice. Everyone contributed and … we all shared in the adventure. All the best!
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Thanks Steven!!!!! You are the Man! I seriously hope the NSA or CIA gives you a seven figure salary Job soon!!! I Know I would sleep better at night with you on the Job!! LOL
But Seriously thanks for making this forum and for making it so much fun for everyone!
Hopefully we will get to do this again soon!!!
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Interesting….. Zoom in and look at the end.
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Well, congrats to Melissa! All you other searchers, don’t give up since you can still be a runner-up if you get to the hidden location. Just in case Melissa decides to decline the prize, or is disqualified for some reason. Please insist that the crew take down your name and contact information as a runner-up!! They didn’t do this in the Midwest, and that’s why there’s still no answers as to whether a runner-up will get the Midwest Journey.
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Thank you Steven.
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Indeed, thanks for your time and efforts.
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It ended just like the “LOST” episodes, but it was fun.
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Thank you so much, Steven!
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http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=203853800179085189342.0004adc9017dbb03328c7&msa=0&ll=43.484812,-71.213379&spn=4.495643,8.800049 Here’s her route.
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Thanks Everyone for a very entertaining week, Weekend,and Hunt…… and especially thanks to Steven Barley…… the Hunt master that brought us all together….
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Ended in Tennants harbor
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We’re assuming that the 15 mile call was from someone there vs farther up …
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Did you hear the clapping??
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Yeah.. I did and i think someone yelling….
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Ha, they just showed the Journey commercial on tv right now!
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I did.
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yes, clapping and cheering about 5 minutes ago, but no one on cam yet.
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maybe someone oblivious to the contest came by to ask for directions…lol
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I hope someone from Steve’s blog wins. My friend was in 2nd for midwest 😦
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Actually … had to double check … that was from Dodge. This might be over soon!
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someone within 15 miles per dodge on twitter
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yes Robert….the red chair =RED and that was EATS not jeep…REDS EATS on water street.
which is also famous for it lobster roll.
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I’ve read that, but I’m not buying it. How many people drove by the Rt 73 & 74 intersection without the ending clue sign being posted? They know we are using Google. And Google can’t control them parking a red Jeep with another real world clue posted nearby. I’ve got my stake on the red Jeep unless another prevailing thought makes more sense.
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They wouldn’t use a Jeep. That would be cross advertising for the competition. This is Dodge afterall.
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everyone said it says red eat’s or red seats my husband also thought it said red jeep which is a chrysler product
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NO no-one has successfully solved the phone in clue…….
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Its gotta be back toward portland..thats where im sending my driver- it was the last slideshow pic and where the number was given to look around in the real world
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Good point Steve. How do they know? unless someone posted their location
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just saw this on the Dodge i tunes page
Dodge Someone is within 15 miles of the East coast Dodge Journey. Stay tuned. youtube.com/dodge #JourneySearch
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so they are spying on the roads in the area…..
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Steve I got it. you have a guy in the area? Of Wiscassett me?
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I think someone needs to backtrack – go back to monument square at the CALL JOE Time and Temp building. Find due north and get on foot! Find some red seats, go two doors down, look for a sign.
We are missing something here – that sign has to be located. It is crucial!
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How could they know that?
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Hi guys,
I’ve been following this forum for awhile, but this is my first post. My boyfriend is on the ground. He read the the sign in the window of the sign shop a few doors down from Red’s Eats- “Life is a journey, not a destination 1-888-xxx-xxxx”
When we called the number, it said to go north, look for woodworking and windowshop at an antique store that’s owner’s name rhymes with what they sell and in that window “you’ll find what you’re looking for”
There’s a store called Shady Lady, but there’s not much in that window.
Any help is appreciated 🙂
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Hi Chelsea and yes!! Confirmation of the sign … and near Red’s Eats (they just spoke it wrong).
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And Chelsea. We’ll get looking … so that should be continuing on Water Street, yes?
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Chelsea. Can you confirm his route from Red’s?
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From Red’s, the sign shop is one block north.
The Shady Lady is on the south side of Water St, but he couldn’t find anything meaningful in the window.
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OK. Here’s the full message (because of the first part and to be fair to your boyfriends progress – I removed the number from your post)
“Nice work. First things first. Be careful who share this number with. 99% of the people that are hoping to find the Journey, think they can find it from their easy chair. So, don’t undo all own your hard work. Blend in with the locals as you head north … check out some woodworking made by hard labor.
Or Better yet. We hear antiquing is huge around here, so why not do some window shopping. There’s one in particular that’s named after the owner whose name also rhymes with what she sells. In the window, you’ll find what you’re looking for.”
I like Shady Lady … but if that’s south on Water Street, it seems like the wrong direction … “blend in with the locals as you head north” is curious … there are a lot of antiques shops, will start to check. Worth mentioning: Dodge said someone was 15 miles away. I believe the only way they could know that is my getting the phone call and this location is within 15 miles (unless there’s another one :()
It may not be near Red’s but further north … that’s a personal call. Switching over to search now.
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Is there a reflection in the window?
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He said there isn’t. Dodge was really serious about taking this search into the “real world.” I’m at HQ in Illinois and this marks the first time in my life Google couldn’t help me
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Was he traveling up 1, then detoured to Red’s Eats. I been monitoring someone on Twitter who’s moved on to thomaston, me, now to Rockland, me. I know you saw that everyone has turn over wiscasset over looking for that antique store. It could be further along. Or just not to be found in google. I expanded my search several times. There are many … nothing has jumped out … yet 😦
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Check this out
Look at the pictures.. Especially the one in the barn with the cut outs it the wood
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timber framing
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How would they know if a car going by was in this search. I think they saw it written online.
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http://barnonwalnuthill.com/barn.html
Forgot the link
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that is interesting but…. the beams look a little too high
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Type of barn is good but the flooring is wrong.
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Well Paul i hope you get it I hope your the one…… and i hope you ate a couple of Lobster Rolls too….. gots to keep your strength up…
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thanks jenni, i wish. we barely have enough money to make it home, nevermind eating anything 😦
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robin i am with you….i don’t think red eats is confirmed… the guy came in and sat on a red seat and ate a lobster roll
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I told Amber (on the other feed) to check out the store windows for advertisements. She said a minute or so ago that you have to window shop in the antique stores (near reds). So Paul, do that……if you can’t be first, at least be second just in case.
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Been listening to that message on the phone over and over again and I’m now 100% convinced somewhere along a route north of Portland are are series of Red Jeeps (perhaps a dealership?) and a “few doors down”, well you are pointed to a specific car where they have left a clue.
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[And that’s how Dodge knew … someone called a new number! from the sign by Red’s Eats]
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your link didnt show up
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ok i logged on twitter and it states someone is with in 15 miles and it also says again the call sign and the number is the most important clue so if you were where that call sign was and then listened to the message and looked for red seats and a sign you should be on the right track
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Someone just said that those are Rock Island Red chickens. clue?
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Supposedly a sign with a number down the road from the T/T building in Portland
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i really hope we find the car, obviously, but if not i really hope its found by someone who needs a car, cant afford one, lost one, or needs one for their family… not someone who can afford to buy a new car if they need (even if it infringes on their shopping or chauffeur expenses. good luck everyone and thank you again for all the support and help. we are less than a mile from reds and traffic is at a stand still.
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HEY have a look at this! http://barnonwalnuthill.com/pictures.html
Barn on Walnut Hill
655 Walnut Hill Rd
Yarmouth, ME
It looks very similar to the inside of our barn!!
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Robin, I think its there too! I just posted that… I really really do!
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I saw that earlier too, and it used to be a chickien coup
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The floor is varnished though
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Well i am gonna go take a long hot shower and by the time i get back someone will have found it…….hopefully…
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Did anyone check out the Red Barn Publishing barn on:
43 Mechanic Street, Rockland, Maine
The Red Barn is from the 18th century.
http://www.redbarnrockland.com/index.html
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Look for the crew white trailer. I think that is the reflections.
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