About a month ago, Christine surprised me with flight tickets to Leon, Mexico. “I wanted this to be a surprise – but I need your help.” I was impressed that she would even try to make it a complete surprise. “I’m pretty sure you’ll figure out what it’s for if I were to tell you to take March 10th through the 16th off and you need a passport.” “Rally Mexico.” I smiled back. “See – I knew it.” She said. This is hands down, the best surprise ever.

Rally Mexico is the newest addition to the WRC (World Rally Championship). It is the only WRC rally run in North America. Rally Mexico has been a part of a smaller series and has been run for many years. If this event goes well, “us lazy Americans” will have the ability to watch the best drivers in the world, first hand, every year.

We are finalizing the details. We have flights, hotel, rental, etc. booked. Since Christine shopped early we were able to get the cheap flights and the hotel booked well before they filled up. Now we just have to pack.

I decided to take my digital camera instead of the video camera. I’m a better photographer then videographer. Plus the overhead is smaller. I’ll be buying another 128MB stick and borrowing one from my brother. So I’ll be able to shoot well over 200 3.3MP shots. “Take a bajillion pictures!” James demanded. I shoot about 150 pictures during Maine Forest Pro Rally, so I’m using that as a guide.

Fear not – I will have a full update with pictures when we return. – Kris