Sunday: We did it! Today we settled in for some long stages and took the USRC stock class win! The crew kept the car together and Christine and I kept the Neon on the road. This is our fourth finish and we did well on these roads which moved my speed factor up. (no more starting in the back) The in-car looks awesome with the trees going by at 70. We’ll have lots of pictures and video soon! We’re on our way back to So-Cal tomorrow.

Saturday: We got the rougher stages out of the way in the morning. It took its toll on the right front subframe and we started to notice it was moving under braking. The Kosmides crew lent us a hand and a welder. You know it’s a good time in service when welding becomes your only option. We set some fast stage times and ran a clean / smooth first day. I’m trying to make sense of the online scores. Our USRC competition – Kris & Ed Dahl went out with rear suspension problems. I hope they can restart tomorrow. We’re in second place in production amidst a whole pack of Tabor cars. Long day – need sleep…

Friday: It was a long day of recce. Christine will be burning the midnight oil writing her notes for tomorrow. At first she was going to mark up the stage notes prepared by Pat Richard but his notes are just not what we’re accustomed to. She opted to re-write the whole book and notate it exactly how we want it. The crew is here and the car is ready to go.

Thursday: We arrived at 4:30 to the Red Lion Hotel in Olympia, Washington. The last 30 miles seemed to take forever! I was mentally done with driving once we were out of Portland. Christine did drive a litte bit yesterday and today which let me nap and recharge. The press stage was fun and was a good ‘warm up’ for what to expect here. We’ll be out all tomorrow doing recce.

Photographer Jim Culp captured us at the press stage – check out his other photos here.