When it come to me actualy participating in motorpsorts things just never seem to come together. Todays most recent dissapointment; I was suposed to be participating in the Pine Barrons Express TSD rally today,(possibly the last one ever), but I never even made it across the bridge into NJ. I was at first going to be navigator for my friend Dave in his Explorer, but he had a class that runs late on saterdays and couldn't get out in time to make the drive out to the site. So with two weeks notice that he couldn't do it ,he tells me to take the exploder, get annother navigator and have fun.
So I ask car buddy A if he wants to do it, he answers yes. Two days latter he tells me "the bride says no!". Next I ask car buddy B, he says absolulty yes! We even have a dry run using tulip route instructions from the Targa Newfoundland Rally. We did it siting in the car in the dark at the pace of that rally stage so that we could simulate going through that many instructions in a short time. It seemed like a very helpful training tool. So thursday he calls me and tells me he has been sick in bed all week and is having emergency (albeit minnor) surgury on friday! Well no PBX rally for me at this point.
Next I decide to go to the rally anyway to work as a volunteer, sounds simple what could go wrong? Well I will tell you what went wrong. I inadvertantly got locked out of my house this morning after running some early morning errands, and didn't get back in untill 1:00pm; rally start time! It was a two hour drive to the rally location. Maybe it was the wrong choice, but I decided to go to car buddy C's house to drink beer instead.
Due to family obligations, illness, work and bad luck I've missed every auto-x ,rally-x and hill climb in the Eastern PA area in last two years. The awsome pile of parts for my 200x challenge car hasen't been touched in months either :(
Maybe next year will be better... car buddy C has an old, but decent chrysler coupe that is BABE rally material, and his bride is a hard-core foodie, so if New Orleans is involved the answer is not just yes, but you better!
