Posted in on Jan 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
The retreat from Lisbon is in full swing. I called Delta yesterday after we were told of the rally cancellation and tried to change my departure from Dakar to Charlotte to Lisbon to Charlotte. After a few minutes the woman who was working on my request simply started to laugh. What is going on in [...]
Posted in on Jan 4th, 2008 5 Comments »
The organizers of the 2008 Lisboa-Dakar Rally pulled the plug on this years rally because of the threat of terrorist activity in Mauritania and southern Morocco. We were scheduled to enter scrutineering at 11:30 when we were given a notice of an extrodinary meeting at 12:00. At the meeting we were told that the rally [...]
Posted in on Jan 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
It’s still raining. During the morning it’s been showers and sunny weather. But as the day has gone on, the weather has been getting steadily worse. It’s not continuous rain but the showers are getting very heavy and quite frequent. Early this evening, we started getting small thundershowers with one of the bigger ones giving [...]
Posted in on Jan 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
The weather is variable to say the least. One minute it’s a beautiful blue-sky day. Then 20 minutes later, it raining again. Not much rain but enough. And then 20 minutes later, it’s sunny again. The forecast for the weekend is still good. I hope so – I don’t want to be doing scrutineering in [...]
Posted in on Jan 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
It rained last night but the true torrential downpour waited for us to leave the marina restaurant and walk back to the rooms. Maybe 30 knot winds and horizontal rain straight off the Atlantic. Let’s hope that this doesn’t happen for the Europeasn stages. This morning, though, is absolutely beautiful – sunny and rain-soaked . [...]
