Feb 3rd update

February 3^rd

It’s a darn good thing that the telephone and the computer have the dates on them or I wouldn’t be able to tell you that it’s Feb 3^rd!!!!  Like I said It’s pretty confusing moving to a new town every day!!

We did make it to the next race site just before dark – I was just at a point where I couldn’t decide whether to keep on straight to Lander or turn where it looked like from the map they provided for us in the ‘’ Stage Stop Bible” and just at that moment we saw Bruce and Laura’s trailer parked in what appeared to be a rest stop – we were so lucky to have seen them because that is actually the race start!!!!!  If it had been dark we never would have seen them and would have been driving around for hours looking for it!!!!  Plus we heard from Ed Stielstra that it is a really steep hill going on to the town of Lander – we are currently in the South Pass at an altitude of 8500 feet!!! And yes I had trouble breathing taking the team up to the line but thankfully someone offered to help slow them down running the 25 yards uphill to the start!!!

So here I am waiting in our cozy little trailer – the trail is less miles today at 30 so Randy should be about 2.5 hours I think……….

We saw storm and black ice warnings last nite when we were coming here and supposedly there is a big storm coming – so much so that in the driver’s meeting this morning they said they may want to caravan everybody to the next stop!!!!!!  It was snowing pretty heavily but now it’s just windy – the temp is probably around 30 degrees – I don’t know for sure because ….once again…….no cell service!!!!

 

Final results for today:  overall- 17^th and today’s- 19^th  thought things went good but must have gone well for everybody!!

Just got our 2^nd covid test and are clear – off to Alpine to spend the nite and then leave for Driggs, Idaho tomorrow!!