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with folks and playing some games. During the day the RV Support Coordinators had set up a washer toss tournament for Thursday afternoon and a bean bag baseball game for Friday morning. On Thursday a bunch of us went into Baker to .jpg)
have lunch at The Mad Greek Restaurant. Thursday evening we had a pot luck dinner in the High School Gym. With approximately 53 motor coaches in attendance there was plenty of food for all. On Friday mor.jpg)
ning the trucks showed up from the Los Angeles area with all the equipment necessary to set up the 20 stages of the race. This years race had 247 teams entered, with 20 runners each. To keep track of all of this, set up baton exchange areas, take care of traffic control, etc., it takes a large logistical effort to accomplish. Each stage was assigned the necessary equipment to do their job. These included.jpg)
signage, traffic cones and flood lights for the stages that would be receiving runners during the night time hours. All this equipment was off loaded in an enclosed area and a small team of volunteers sorted it all out for each stage. Our friends, Don & Vicki, were part of the sorting team with one other couple. To keep busy I jumped in to help with this effort. In about three hours we had it all sorted out and ready for the stage support leaders to pick up to transport out on the race course. Pictured here is the sorting team of Vicki, Don, me, Steve and Vicky.
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ning the trucks showed up from the Los Angeles area with all the equipment necessary to set up the 20 stages of the race. This years race had 247 teams entered, with 20 runners each. To keep track of all of this, set up baton exchange areas, take care of traffic control, etc., it takes a large logistical effort to accomplish. Each stage was assigned the necessary equipment to do their job. These included.jpg)
signage, traffic cones and flood lights for the stages that would be receiving runners during the night time hours. All this equipment was off loaded in an enclosed area and a small team of volunteers sorted it all out for each stage. Our friends, Don & Vicki, were part of the sorting team with one other couple. To keep busy I jumped in to help with this effort. In about three hours we had it all sorted out and ready for the stage support leaders to pick up to transport out on the race course. Pictured here is the sorting team of Vicki, Don, me, Steve and Vicky.After all the work was done we had a chance to relax. On Friday evening the High School kids put on a spaghetti dinner as a fund raiser. Most all of the RV Support people bought tickets and dined together. Af.jpg)
ter dinner the six of us assigned to Stage Two (Don & Vicki, Steve & Vicky and Joanne and I) decided to get a jump on every one and go on out to our stage and set up. To get all the RV's out of the school parking lot before the race they were asking everyone to leave by 7:15 am on Saturday. That would mean getting up by at least 5:30 or 6:00. By going out Friday evening we not only missed the made house of 53 coaches pulling out at the same time but we would already be on site and get to sleep later. By 7:30 pm Friday evening we were on site out in the desert. This picture is the view we had from the door of our coach of the desert.
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ter dinner the six of us assigned to Stage Two (Don & Vicki, Steve & Vicky and Joanne and I) decided to get a jump on every one and go on out to our stage and set up. To get all the RV's out of the school parking lot before the race they were asking everyone to leave by 7:15 am on Saturday. That would mean getting up by at least 5:30 or 6:00. By going out Friday evening we not only missed the made house of 53 coaches pulling out at the same time but we would already be on site and get to sleep later. By 7:30 pm Friday evening we were on site out in the desert. This picture is the view we had from the door of our coach of the desert.
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