Friday, September 10, 2004
We're on the Rock!
We finally made it. After many months of planning and wondering if this all would happen and come together, we are here. It's hard to believe. The weather is as expected in St. John's, wet and windy. The temperature is not bad and it is supposed to warm up and be sunny over the next couple of days.
Peter and Sandi, our support crew, are on the ferry and enjoying the company of other competitors! We are very much looking forward to the car arriving to make some final preparations and actually get to drive the thing!
Tomorrow will include test driving the car, having it pass technical inspection and the entire registration process. Lot's of administrative crap!
We have surveyed four local taxi drivers about the availability of high octane gas, no conclusions, one would think they would notice this sort of thing when buying gas six times a day?!
We went for dinner in downtown St. John's, beautiful old buildings with lots of character. The best part of the evening (outside the wonderful conversations!) was the cab ride home. The local driver, who appeared to have had many years experience behind the wheel of his cab, managed to drive around 80KM/HR through the tight residential streets! The only limiting factor appeared to be the BMW 5 series that was holding him back! The only thing missing were helmets.
Well we sign off for the night and look forward to a long but enjoyable day preparing the car for our first official drive on Sunday. There is a parade of vehicles into Mile One Stadium from the ferry and we will try to post some pictures of the parade.
Type at everyone tommorrow...
Peter and Sandi, our support crew, are on the ferry and enjoying the company of other competitors! We are very much looking forward to the car arriving to make some final preparations and actually get to drive the thing!
Tomorrow will include test driving the car, having it pass technical inspection and the entire registration process. Lot's of administrative crap!
We have surveyed four local taxi drivers about the availability of high octane gas, no conclusions, one would think they would notice this sort of thing when buying gas six times a day?!
We went for dinner in downtown St. John's, beautiful old buildings with lots of character. The best part of the evening (outside the wonderful conversations!) was the cab ride home. The local driver, who appeared to have had many years experience behind the wheel of his cab, managed to drive around 80KM/HR through the tight residential streets! The only limiting factor appeared to be the BMW 5 series that was holding him back! The only thing missing were helmets.
Well we sign off for the night and look forward to a long but enjoyable day preparing the car for our first official drive on Sunday. There is a parade of vehicles into Mile One Stadium from the ferry and we will try to post some pictures of the parade.
Type at everyone tommorrow...
