You might explain is wasn't 4 days with Gumbo in Elko. :) Too long a story.
--Mom
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>From: Ms Katie Kelly <aceontour@yahoo.com>
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Travel time to "big" events...
>Date: Fri, Feb 14, 2003, 12:36 PM
>
>>Nationals is something every serious
>>autocrosser should do at least once if only to meet
>>all the names you
>>keep hearing, or hang out with your region buddies
>>for a whole week.
>
> It's worth doing once even if you're not serious, so
> you can say you've been to Kansas.
>
>>There are even tourist things to do in Topeka if you
>>want to make a
>>vacation out of it (though most wives will be sick of
>>the whole autocross
>>thing halfway through the week, especially if they're
>>not competing).
>
> Not just wives. It's torture for anyone, although when
> you're a kid, the event itself isn't so bad, but the
> trip stinks, and you can't wait for the next hotel
> which BETTER have a swimming pool. I never ate so much
> fried chicken. Once on site, and your parents become
> so wrapped up in themselves and the competition, you
> pretty much have free reign to do as you please, which
> is why nationals was always a lot more fun for me as a
> kid than as a competitor. It was "bigger" then.
>
> But what do you do when you're an adult? It's not like
> you can go playing in the dirt and simultaneously
> command the type of respect you'd probably enjoy. It's
> totally different. I once invited Gumbo Lambrusco (not
> his real name) to nationals, probably close to six
> years ago. Good grief. I should add that he is happily
> married now to another woman, probably thanks to his
> nationals experience. He kept frequenting the payphone
> to call about work, because that was more interesting
> to him than the autocross. Or maybe that WASN'T work
> he was calling...
>
> We spent four days in Elko once.
>
> -Katie
>
>
> --- Darren Madams <darren@madams.com> wrote:
>> For some reason you will always end up in Elko,
>> Nevada at some point in your trip (even if you take
>> the Southern route).
>
> =====
> Katie Kelly
>
> Guilt slows your metabolism.
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