No Alibi 2007 Day 1 Recap
Thursday, July 5th, 2007We’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.
