All. Week. Long

Jun 12 2014

Fast 3rd Day Rally Update

Jun 12 2014

Started off rocky, we were in last place, 10/10.

But we clawed back up to tie for 5th overall!

AND I drove the ‘Tail of the Dragon’.

That is a fortunate thing to be able to type. And it was AAAAAMAZING. 318 curves in 11 miles, in the rain at that. Attacked.

Really really great day. Really really wiped.

Another 12 hours on the road, got so lost, hours worth of lost, then dinner, and now I’m finishing up my story for the paper tomorrow, and my column is due tomorrow as well.

Hence the coles-notes version for now, and will catch you this weekend on the final day. I fly out at 7am tomorrow.

Here’s where this post came from, in my new goggles.

And David made me put the top down, and exposed me to the orb.

TTYT

The Mazda Adventure Rally – Day 2

Jun 11 2014

10 hours of driving today.

All along the kinds of roads that look like the ones in my imagination. Recently paved, no gravel, twist switchback hairpin hairpin, through a bright green forest that smelled so good, and no other cars.

After hours of shifting along this, I was in a meditative state, so calm, so serene.

I had to navigate like in olden times – paper maps and a highlighter.

Oh boy, how many posts around here say “woah guys, so lost”? I know. I was all “phft, I’ll just use my phone”… but most of the day there was no cel signal because we were in the deep backwoods of Georgia.