Fort Mill, SC – August 13, 2018
Aug 13th, 2018 by rallyadmin
The truck is loaded. Bags packed. Couple of last details, like this post, to do before I leave.
Tomorrow AM @ oh-dark-30, I leave in Big Red for Seattle, Kirkland actually, and the start of the Alcan 5000 on Monday the 20th. It’s just a hair over 2,800 miles to Kirkland and it shouldn’t be a problem to do it in 4 days. I have to be there by Saturday so I’ll have a day in hand by leaving tomorrow.
It’s going to be a busy month. The Alcan ends on Tuesday, the 28th in Fairbanks, Alaska. I have a race in Sebring, Florida on Sep 1st so I’m flying out of Fairbanks on the 29th and meeting with the co-owner of my racecar, Ken Maynard, in Tampa on the 30th.
The race, a six hour enduro, is Saturday afternoon and evening. Ken and I will leave Sebring on Sunday morning and start driving the race rig back to Anaconda, Montana where the racecar lives. I’ll get on a flight to Seattle on Wednesday afternoon in Omaha, Nebraska and meet up with my truck that night. A friend, Jim Breazeale, is flying up to Fairbanks and driving the truck from Fairbanks to Seattle.
Also on Wednesday night, I’m meeting up with my BFF, Tom Fitzsimons, who is flying up from San Diego to drive back to the east coast with me. It’s been a long time since we’ve done a road trip together so this should be fun. We be back in South Carolina probably Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. Who knows?
But first I’ve got to get the truck rolling west tomorrow.
Obi-wan