TeamD Adventures

Day two of the 2007 No Alibi Rally started bright and shiny and car 0 was scheduled to make it’s way onto the road at 8:00am. Luckily Eric, the rallymaster, took pity on us and did not place our first checkpoint in the first regularity of the day which meant we did not have to get on the road until the leisurely time of 8:15am. The morning was spent waking up, falling asleep, cursing the sun, waking up again, showering, repacking the car, checking out, checking our clock with the rally clock, checking to make sure we were still awake, and then heading onto the road.

Lacking any previous evening’s preparation for breakfast, we headed off in search of coffee (for Pete) and food (for both of us). We knew that a local Java stand to the left of the hotel had agreed to open early on Sunday for us but food was foremost in my mind. Now, I’m not one to frequent McDonalds but I do have a soft spot in my heart for their sausage biscuit. In fact, that is exactly what I was craving to kill my hunger so we gassed up and headed right into town to see if we could find the golden arches. And, as luck would have it, we found one in a Wall-Mart at the far edge of Colville. .

We’re back from our trip to Eastern Washington for the 2007 running of the No Alibi rally. 28 teams braved 100 degree plus heat on the backroads of the inland empire to complete in the annual touring rally put on by the Rainier Auto Sports Club. Although the temperature kept rising, the rally was moving out of the farmland and into the forests in the northeast part of Washington state. Our checkpoint here gave us a chance to sit idly in the shade of a stand of fir trees which was a nice change from the burning dirt of the previous locations. We got to our checkpoint 30 minutes before the cars would pass by so we spent some time with the newly purchased Frisbee. Pete proved to be much better flinging the disc. I proved that I could, almost on command, make him wander through the woods to find my errant throw.

After the cars made their way by our checkpoint, we followed them through the end of the course, acting as the sweep car so Marvin and Jessica (who had been sweeping the course) could get to our dinner location and get things ready for a bunch of hungry rallyists.

Day one ended in Colville at Benny’s Colville Inn with a nice catered dinner at Park Place Family Dining and entertainment in a DVD of classic rallies that Dan in Car 10 compiled for us.