Waiting on the beach(?) for the start of Keels, there was a wee bit o’ wind coming in the harbor.

 

We have landed in Portland.  It is good to be home. 

Two words of advice:  Global entry.

10 planeloads of people queued at immigration in Chicago.  Our Nexus cards let us skip that and use the automated kiosks. Sailed through in 3 minutes.

The rally is a series of 40+ closed-road stages linked by transits on public roads.

The stages, together, add to around 400 km.

On those 400 km, I spent more than 50% of the time with the throttle wide open.

Wondering what the BMW’s on-board computer will say to the next service technician that reads it…

 

The two critical pieces of equipment were our intercoms (courtesy of LegitScript) and the supersize brakes on the car (from Roundel).

 

Uh-oh – the bunny caught me. This might be a stage where I still respected the ‘not-to-exceed’ limit.  Simon & Stewart were in the VW. Fabulous folks, fast and funny and indominable.

 

I believe all photo credits are: Ralph Saulnier.  I’ll be licensing several of his shots for memorabilia.

 

 

We are in Quebec City.  Not much English spoken here but we are managing.  Handing off the car tonight.  Tomorrow we fly home to Portland.

We woke up on the ferry from Argentia NL to North Sydney NS.  We got some geocaches in NB NS and PE today.  Stopping over in Fredericton NB.  Tomorrow we head to Quebec City where we will hand over the car to Anton.  We fly home on Tuesday.

We won the Grand Touring Division!  Results are final. 1:43 penalty.

Time to start home.  Tomorrow we board the 16 hour argentia ferry to nova scotia.

Fastest speed on the rally for us 119kph

We started out in first today, surprisingly.  We held on through some tough sections.  We finished first in GT. 

The old Mustang (not dads) rolled.  Noone injured.  She finished.