Our yearly Cemetery Crawl event (#5) is happening this weekend. I wish I could have joined them on the road but I work for basically a sweat shop and it's impossible to get time off without having to make up the hours during the next week (bastards!) Well, that aside, I did enjoy making up the rhyming clues and designing the T-shirts for the teams.
Debe Branning from MVD Ghostchasers and I started this Cemetery Crawl event in 2006 as a fun way to get ghost hunters to gather some cemetery knowledge, see some great places, learn some interesting things, and at the same time enjoy an "Amazing Race" style competition road rally that takes them all over the State of Arizona. Debe is writing about in her Examiner online column and I'm sure on Monday, she'll have a lot to say about the crazy teams of 3 people who chase around in cars, get off at goofy places, have to do certain tasks like loading coffins into hearses and finding certain graves over the weekend. They are hitting about 8 cemeteries this time and numerous other odd spots along the way. The finish line is always the most hilarious point where they are exhausted, wrung out, and still running on adrenalin. I'll keep you posted on how it turns out and be sure and check the link in this paragraph for Debe's accounting. There's usually traffic tickets, cars breaking down, people trying to cheat and getting points taken away... You name it!