A real-time location system from SkyBitz captured the route, minute by minute, of this year's Capitol Christmas Tree, as it traveled from Arizona to Washington, D.C.

30 November - An 85-foot-tall blue spruce weighing nearly 8,000 pounds has nearly completed a 21-day, 4,167-mile circuitous journey from Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Since Nov. 21, however, anyone could have viewed its location in real time by visiting the official tracking Web site for Capitol Christmas Tree 2009, thanks to a satellite-based tracking system provided by SkyBitz.

SkyBitz worked with the U.S. Forest Service, which has supplied the Capitol's Christmas tree since 1970. According to Rick Davalos, a district ranger for the U.S. Forest Service and the coordinator of the 2009 Capitol Christmas tree project, this year's tree was selected in July from a final list of 10 by Ted Bechtol, the superintendent of the U.S. Capitol grounds. Davalos and others made stops along the way, presenting the tree to onlookers at local libraries, schools, courthouses, shopping centers and other sites.

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