Real-life Road Warriors

[miss_adventure]

I don't celebrate NYE, preferring to start my year at Samhain; typical Western NYE is just another night of dealing with drunks and fights, albeit on a grand scale. However, 31 December is saved for this: it marks the start of the annual Dakar Rally. The Rally, which started in 1979, is an off-road race from Europe (this year's race started in Lisbon, Portugal) through the Maghreb and West Africa to Dakar, Senegal. Racers use cars and trucks, motorcycles and quads, and self-created customized machines--there is even an American sidecar rig competing this year. The 2006 route is expected to take 15 days to complete for the serious contenders, as it is plotted to be as rugged and unforgiving as possible.

Needless to say, I want to ride this rally someday. Just finishing would be a Grand Adventure(TM). (Or because I'd have to enter as a broke privateer and because I would not be competing as a serious contender, a Grand Misadventure.)

Comments

Very O/T and very very late...

[ms-daisy-cutter.livejournal.com]

Feel like posting in The Usual Place about this (http://www.gawker.com/news/park-slope/the-park-slope-hat-spat-read-all-the-emails-166214.php)? Summary: Park Slope mommies with too much money and time to spend, so they agonize about the political/gender implications of...a missing hat.

Re: Very O/T and very very late...

[miss-adventure.livejournal.com]

Rant-comment in The Usual Place forthcoming.

Re: Very O/T and very very late...

[ms-daisy-cutter.livejournal.com]

I look forward to seeing it. :-)

I'd have posted about it myself, but there are so many things out there to rant about, and I don't want to hog the comm. (I did post about it here (http://community.livejournal.com/cf_debate/145363.html), tho. Just about everyone agreed with me.)

Re: Very O/T and very very late...

[miss-adventure.livejournal.com]

A first-draft gripe is in place, so you can now join in the ranty fun. :)

Even later and even more O/T...

[ms-daisy-cutter.livejournal.com]

Someone just forwarded me this post from a traffic-felony lawyer (http://community.livejournal.com/customers_suck/17756164.html) on customers_suck. You being an LEO, I thought you'd appreciate it.