Road Trip!

Scav's legendary road trip started accidentally and was inspired by the item #175 on the first list, asking for "A 5 cent returnable soda can...100 pts." Judges knew that local Hyde Park grocery store Mr. G's had accidentally gotten a soda shipment with out of state bottle deposit stamps, but were surprised at how many students drove to Iowa for cans. Judges quickly realized Scavvies would travel for points, and the annual road trip was born.

Judges also recognized that UChicago students didn’t go off campus much, and Scav’s road trip was a way to get students out into the larger Chicago area and out of the city entirely. The maximum distance for the road trip is 1,000 miles from Chicago. In true Scav fashion, some items didn’t make sense until you were driving to the main destination. For instance, in 1995 item #206 required parking tickets from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario. These could easily be obtained while traveling to get item #292: The tackiest Niagara Falls souvenir you can find. [66 get your kicks points]