I must admit I am up there in the guilty thoughts stakes with DrG. I felt a kind of relief as to not be missing out on something this year. Sorry for all of those who have worked so hard to be ready again to be weirded out of play by rain.
It has been a strange year for us with little work done on the Spirit of Sunshine but much done on the sprite by Dr G solo.
It is not just the weather system out of whack it has been us.
When we started I was living in a truck and that was three girlfriends ago for the dr. Now I am married with kid in China and he is on his way to the married place too (with a top chick I might add. Not much has been said about Lady Goggles here (we need a team name for her!) but there are not many that could be willing to invest in a lifetime of the good doctors brand of sharp observational wit but she has and brings back her own in equal measure.)
Somehow we need to get the cogs to remesh in the making of the car of our team time as it does not just need the gods of speed and weather to play, but us.
I have spoken before about the Dharma of this project and how doors were opening to barriers that we didn't even knew existed which gave us faith that we were on the right track. But recently those doors have not been so obvious.
I guess any great journey there has to be an approximation to death before the heroes return to transcend their station. Even Mad Max had his low period before opening a can of whoopass in Barter town.
So here we sit dampened by the tyranny of distance (and rain) but with our hopes still smouldering. I can sense the return, the re commitment to the project, to make it happen, and in the end the ultimate victory; a run at Bonneville targeting the world record.
The story would be less without the ardor. Without adversity there would not be courage (or charity) and we have seen so much in this tail from our friends all over the world.
Thanks.
Dik