Glad to hear you made a safe passage home from your trip Doug. I can wait to
hear
about you adventure while in the outback.
Jonthan
http://www.landracing.com
DOUG ODOM wrote:
> List: Well we made it back. That 14 HR. plane flight is a butt buster
> and the only tough part of the trip. I can not sleep sitting up for love
> or money. I had 741 e-mails when I got home and have only gone through
> about half of them. I won't try and tell about the whole trip in one
> message. It would be long and boring to some or most. The lake is so
> big that the cars just disappear over the horizon. I was hoping someone
> would fly in to the meet so I could con them into taking me up to get a
> picture from above the lake. They said you can go out to a point where
> all you can see is the horizon of salt for 360 degrees. You better have
> a GPS or compass with you or you can be in real trouble getting lost.
> The salt is different, I believe that they said it's 98% sodium
> chloride. I think Bonneville is much less than that. It is very hard and
> cures differently. You don't get the crusty's like B-ville. It dries and
> leaves round mounds about a foot in diameter and half inch or so in
> height spaced about 4 or 5 feet apart. It had dried out to the point
> that the drag would just scrape the top of the mounds leaving the course
> a bit bumpy. Not really bad and no problem for our car with air bags.
> They really need more weight on the drag and they are going to fix that
> soon. They only have about 6 or 8 guys doing all the work at the meet so
> they do a great job with a few people.
> The road out to the lake was not near as bad as I had heard. A lot
> better than the road into El Mirage. But longer about 90 miles. I drove
> at about 50mph most of the time in the motorhome. More later, Doug
> Odom back in big ditch
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