I stumbled upon this brood south of Des Moines about 2am.



I pulled right up to the curb and in true terrorist fashion promptly hooked my horn. No one stirred, as they were not amused with my shenanigans, leaving me slightly disappointed.

I continually wondered if they would make it back for the next four hours and concluded; "Of course they will fool, these veterans know what time it is.... they obviously know something you don't."

Still inquiring minds want to know....

That is the Bethany, MO Kum and Go before the bus load of middle schoolers showed up and woke everyone up.

Darryl, Brant, and I all made it back. Darryl and Brant each won there class. The 3 other riders passed us on I35 and I think they all made it back with good scores.

If Darryl and Brant are the ones on the top, and won their classes, there are four class winners in the picture. Curt Gran and I are the two in the middle.

Now all we need is a sign that says Mary Leir slept here!!

#418

If anyone ever ask you what this Rally stuff is all about...this picture tells alot about one phase of it. The blurriness even adds to what is going on at 0200hrs in the rider's mind.

Yes we are all sane.

JEF
Cincinnati, OH

That's better than the one I snapped!!!

That's Phil, Gary and Me in the foreground.

Curt

You didn't get too much sleep.....hee...hee.
My evil plan is working.

Sue

I never realized how good of a pillow the helmet makes! I'm really glad you snapped a photo of that, I showed it to my coworkers today. They all think I'm nuts.

Dropped my rear wheel off this morning as several of you saw I shaved a few layer of rubber off. Going to have it back tomorrow. I'm trying the michelin pilot power to see it the harder center will get me a few more miles than the Dunlop Qualifiers I've been running the past few years. My last set only lasted 6 weeks - that is going to get spendy.

That is actually Brant and I in the photo. Darryl can be seen if you look carefully sleeping in the gutter (said he was more at home there) than on the sidewalk. All I said to him was "well it does not look like its going to rain" He was later complaining that he did not eat anything during his rest and that that was our fault.

I scarfed down a pizza while Darryl was picking out a bag of chex mix for the ride. He later realized the chex mix was a bad idea as he had trouble hitting his mouth while riding.