The race has begun

The 2012 Tour Divide race has begun and Tracy and Sara are already moving quite along on the trail. As you can see in the previous two posts Tracy has hit her check in button a couple of times. You can follow her tracker using the two links on the right side bar under the heading "Tracker Links to Follow Tracy". Here are a few pictures from the start of the race. I have a small video I will post soon as well. More pictures to follow.

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I got to use the hood!

Three days ago Jenny Pacey got food poisoning and man was she a trooper. After evacuating her entire body of any fluid in any direction it would come out she rode in the car with us for a day and half until she felt better. We were delayed a bit but we still had fun feeding Prairie Dogs (they have really cute butts), seeing Mount Rushmore and driving through the Badlands. Tuesday we were making the final push towards Canada and we stopped at an Arby's to eat. I did not have my usual appetite but attributed it to excitement. While we were at Arby's I had a great idea! I taped my solar charger to the hood of the car and wrapped the end around the windshield wipers. It would charge and not blow away. Five miles outside of Arby's it began to rain. Jenny, who was driving, turned on the windshield wipers, like any one of us would. There was a groan as the windshield wiper bent against the strain of the tape and then a horrid sound as the windshield wiper began to drag my solar charger back and forth across the windshield. The car erupted, "JENNY!! Chit!!" and then a big long "oooooohhhhhhhhh" as the solar charger let go and flew into the median. Then more yelling, "Jenny we got to get off!", "I can't stop NOW!!", "Somebody mark where it was somebody mark where it was!!". Believe it or not we were able to retrieve it without MUCH drama. But the drama was soon to come. About an hour later that chicken sandwich I ate at Arby's was not sitting well. It was then that I realized Jenny had not had food poisoning. I began to squirm... maybe moan a little bit. And then I announced, "PULL OVER PULL OVER!!". It was raining hard so I grabbed Glady's rain jacket and headed out behind the van. It was not long before I was doubled over. THEN... oh yeah.... then something was knocking on my back door. There I was on the flat, open plains of Montanta with no where to hide and I had to..... and so I did. And as I did, as the trucks rolled by, I pulled Glady's hood up over my head.

We were entering the rocky mountain area this morning ; sound track of "Ride the Divide" playing,
cameras clicking, Jenny sleeping; no one talking, all just absorbing the scenes and the moment. As we crested a hill and rounded a turn there they were..the snow crested Rocky Mountains. I burst into tears. Jan turned to talk to me, looked at me and burst into tears. Cindy of course, was already there. It's a great thing to share this journey.

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We are in Iowa....been rockin a mini van off its wheels all the way....I got the moves like jagger.