Dodge Journey Search (East) LIVE updates – Day 2

/ Steven Barley

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)

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1,146 thoughts on “Dodge Journey Search (East) LIVE updates – Day 2”

  11. Lucky girl! Go Melissa! Glad she found it. This was fantastically fun! Thank you Steven for hosting this great site. We were close!!! I would love to do this again – but NOT from my desk. Have a great week everyone! 🙂

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    • Yes, can’t wait to find out! And Steven, I just want to thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into these blogs over the course of the contest. You’ve made it possible for so many of to have such a wonderful experience. A nerdy high-five to you! (That’s me as the nerd, BTW.)

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  19. Steven,

    Thanks for keeping us posted/focused/upbeat/committed/etc. If Dodge does this again, could you volunteer your time again?

    Jim W.

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  21. Well, congrats to Melissa! All you other searchers, 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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  23. Well, congrats to Melissa! All you other searchers, 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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  26. Dodge has posted the full list of clues.
    Red’s Eats in Wiscasset was correct.
    Then real world clue #1, sign shop in Wiscasset, which led to Real World Clue #2, “Angelique’s Home Furnishings” (Angelique’s antiques), which led to Real World Clue #3, Kenniston Realty in Rockland, ME, and that led to the final location south of Thomaston, ME near the water near Mosquito Harbor.

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  33. Hats off to Steven!!!!! I had a great time on the East Coast Journey! The first day spent on foot (16 hrs) and the second day by living room. Both days enjoyable and both days were enhanced by this blog session! Congrats to Melissa!

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  34. Time to get myself out into the World Wide World 🙂

    We have a great group here that’s grown considerably over the past week. It’s been an remarkable adventure for those online and in the real world.

    Wishing everyone the very best! Cheers!

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  35. Steve I want to put out a big thanks! You sparked our creativity and allowed me a wonderful trip yesterday from New Jersey through New York and Vermont. We ending up coming back home in hopes that the “journey” would head south. But I then enjoyed the day today helping those up there come so close. This was a fun adventure that I will never forget and I want to thank you for your time and effort.

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    • Thanks Deb. Greatly appreciated. And yeah, I saw that … LOL (although I wondered if there was a deliberate delay – controlling posts, etc)

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  41. 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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  43. We headed to Albany from CT convinced that the Journey would end where it began. Exactly where it began! I have a picture of our car in the exact spot the Journey was in when the family left. They used a neighborhood in Albany and my partner Nick was able to locate it using Google in spite of the fact that there was no street view. Directly across the street was a parking garage with a lock box hanging from a lamp. It drove us nuts! The upstairs of the garage was unused and there were lights on. While we soon realized it was unlikely to be up there, the lock box bugged us. We wondered if 4 digits would open it. We even tried 1984 after the Orwell slide. We had our fingers crossed for a loop back to Albany after the slide show. Paradox, after all, is the Indian word for water flowing backward. But it was not to be. Congrats to Melissa and thank you Steven for making this extra fun. We still have questions. Was this the original plan all along? Weren’t the video clues too well done in the barn to have been last minute? Oh! And would you like to see the picture?

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    • Hi Marilyn. Thanks for checking in. Fascinating take. There were a number of theories … many along the lines of ending where IT began (whatever it was). If you have pics, it would be great to share. Cheers!

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  44. This was really fun and exciting. Thanks Steven for dedicating the last few weeks to allow us all to follow on an amazing Journey. I hope other companies copy this idea and run similar campaigns. Thank you once again

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  50. Heading home now,…with a new timing belt(our car broke down on the journey) lol~~! and our two very resilient but now exhausted tiny kiddos (ages 1 and 3). Their dad has to get back to DC to go to work in the am or he is usmc ua (awol). 🙂 So…. Steven, Man…… Thank you for the Journey!! You were a huge help, not hindrance, and every way, you feel as much a friend in real life as real life friends are. Thanks again for all you help!! Blessins Bro and I will see you on tweleve! 🙂 – AmyElizabeth

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    • Hey AmyElizabeth 🙂

      Thanks for checking in. We were all pulling for you. I’m sure you and everyone else in race would have loved to win … but it sounds like you had a great journey, chock full of memories (and unexpected turns :() It has been an exceptional pleasure getting to know you.

      Stay in touch. All the best and cheers!

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