The Night Rally

Let's see, the rally itself was great fun. We did have a few problems before and during, but we finished and we were still smiling. In fact, Cynthia and I broke into song several times while Mike & Larry rolled their eyes and pretended not to know us!

We arrived to check in to discover that one of the rally organizers had failed to show. He had all the routes and waypoints for the rally, plus the means to download them into everyone's GPSrs. So, we made due. Brian (the remaining man in charge) loaded the copies of stuff he had to those GPSrs that connected via USB. We had to call my trusty MAC into duty to download all the older serial port GPSrs. See, I told you the MAC was better. I could have downloaded to the USB units also, but Brian had to do something with his PC and he didn't have the ability to handle the serial connections!

Eventually, it was time for the rally to start. It was like starting all over again! The computer and GPSr connection wasn't working (I think it was tired from all the downloads), so our computer tracking was hit and miss. Larry wasn't sure how to use the route function on his receiver so he had to have a quick lesson as they were counting us down to START! Cynthia did a great job with the cache waypoints and getting the extra GPSr set for our cache hunts out of the car. Larry found all the caches along the route and I found the caches at the checkpoints. It was doubly hard since I had to use both the receiver and a compass to find the cache. Mike followed the roads, even when we gave him wrong directions, but he was able to make the necessary adjustments and we made it to the finish line.

Now it is off to bed! We have to be up bright and early for the Day rally. We have to be at the breakfast location by 7:30 AM so we can load the Day waypoints and routes.

Wish us luck on our adventure tomorrow!