[Autox] Maybe it's a Kansas thing...

[Paul and Meredith Brown]

Mark, if you are going to play chicken with a dumptruck, I think it would be
obvious that you should do it in something more substantial than a CRV.  Glad
you are OK.  You should appreciate the fact that you are still around to
suffer from those bruises!

> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:59:22 -0600
> From: mark at bradakis.com
> To: autox at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Autox] Maybe it's a Kansas thing...
>
> Here it is, late August, a few weeks before the Solo Nationals
> and this list is as quiet as can be.  I remember back when there
> would be over a thousand messages flowing through Team.Net
> in the weeks leading up to Nationals.  But now there are so many
> other options, this list is just a fading memory of what used to be.
> True, there are other lists here that get a good dose of traffic, I
> still run about 60 or so lists.  But things have changed.
>
> One thing that hasn't seemed to change is my luck with trips to
> Topeka.  Back in 1997 I hauled the Killer Spit to the Silver
> Anniversary of the Solo Nationals.  It was great fun, a wonderful
> few days, I was 1.4 seconds out of the trophies, which at Nationals
> means there were like two dozen folks ahead of me for that last
> trophy spot.  Sigh.
>
> One thing I didn't like was the trip home.  I fell asleep at the wheel
> on I-70 but avoided serious injury.  I thought I could make it the 15
> miles to the next rest stop.  Oh well.  The race car, the tow vehicle
> and I all managed to get through the incident with only minor
> scrapes and bruises.
>
> So this year I was headed to Topeka again, planning on attending
> a vintage race at Heartland Park.  Didn't make it, didn't fall asleep,
> just misjudged the rain and had another mishap on the highway:
>
>
> http://www.team.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=105
>
>
> So it goes.  For any of you still out there who are heading to Nationals
> [ NOT in Kansas ] good luck.  At least better luck than I had on my trip.
>
> mjb.
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