http://roadtotherally.com Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:07:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am selling my Vancouver support vehicle now that the race is over. I had it completely serviced last year so that I wouldn't have any issues and I repainted the entire van to make sure it looked good for the sponsors. Of course it was painted ... http://roadtotherally.com/archives/434 [gallery] http://roadtotherally.com/archives/424 We have put all our photos on Flickr (okay, most of them since once of our camera's is still in Argentina with the team). The missing pictures may take awhile to make them on but they will be great as they are the ones taken on the race course! ... http://roadtotherally.com/archives/417 What an adventure. I never believed that an event could be so difficult to accomplish. There has never been anything in my life that I didn't believe that I could achieve and this one kicked the ^%$# out of me. As you have been reading I have ... http://roadtotherally.com/archives/408 Everyone relax ... Rick is fine ... but what has been labeled one of the toughest days in Dakar history took its toll on Rick and he made the extremely tough decision that it just wasn't safe for him to continue.  He had just worked too hard to go a very ... http://roadtotherally.com/archives/406 Today I woke up to pouring rain and considering how Cooper and I have been handling the heat ... I was pleased ... Yesterday, Rick road in this rain and he said it was pretty messy!  He is still having problems with his battery and puts a lot of energy ... http://roadtotherally.com/archives/396 He made it through his first offical rally day (the day out of Buenos Aires was all road and no dirt).  And well, I guess it was uneventful ... He slept in and for those of you that know Rick well, he needs his time in the morning.  So ... ... http://roadtotherally.com/archives/393 Rick made it to the camp for the night (can't for the life of me spell what it's called so I will look it up tonight and use the correct term going forward).  The entire day was just a Liason so no racing involved.  The media here estimated that 800,000 ... http://roadtotherally.com/archives/390 Rick rode past us about 10 minutes ago heading for the official start line! http://roadtotherally.com/archives/387 We dropped Rick off about 3 hours ago to go to his drivers meeting and that is the last time we will see him until the finish.  Unless we are lucky enough to catch him at the start.  I walked down to the start and the numbers of people that ... http://roadtotherally.com/archives/385