Mystery Tours advice

They were popular in the 60s and 70s,although they were purely on road.

But I think its possible as long as it involves some on road sections and keeping it simple so those who get lost can trace their way back to a known point.

If EVERYONE had a GPS it would work.You could leave GPS coordinates as clues at various locations.
Maybe nail something up a tree or write coordinates on a car wreck to get to the next location.
You also need to give every participant a sealed envelope with directions for those who are hopelessly lost.
You might also need a rescue plan for anyone who breaks down or gets stuck.
Hopefully all your work mates will have some recovery gear etc and know how to use it:wink:

Hi Daniel,
Haven't been on one for thirty years or more.
As a kid I went on them all the time, every few months with a mates older brother who had his license.
I forget the name of them, it was around Ballina and one of the social clubs ran it.
From memory, Every body had an envelope to start with, this had a set of instructions/driving directions with clues to the name of roads, land marks, these were worth points along the way and the miles/km to different places where more clues were. These runs covered most of the Ballina, Lennox Head, Tintenbar, Teven, Wardelll areas. with everybody ending up at said the Wardel pub or the Seven Mile beach, lennox head for a picnic lunch arvo BBQ. Prices were a bottle of plonk or beer, or a voucher to a local shop.
Sounds like a lot of fun. Can't see why it would work off road as well.
Good luck with it all.
Cheers.

Daniel,

Send Deslexic a member message and see if he can do a tour for you.

He has a history of getting misplaced so anyone following him will definately be on a Mystry tour hehehehehe


Cheers Kev

Gday
Ask your neighbour who is not going on the mystery tour to do the trip when it is all set up, just to be sure it can be done.

We use to do them years ago when I was in Apex.
There were prizes for different stages of the route.
For some reason the Cook and I would win the Spit The Dummy prize for getting lost.
Yes it was a very large babies dummy that you can buy at novelty stores.
Just make sure you have a Tail End Charlie who can round up the lag behinders or the lost.

Cheers

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When we have done it we give two envelopes.

One has the instructions, clews etc. The other is labelled to be opened if the participants have not reached the end by a set time. This one contains the name and clear location of the final meeting point.

If the second envelope is opened that group can not win any prizes but they still get the BBQ

Duncs