The Road to the Starting Line

Well, we are on the road to the starting line: Tire Rack in Southbend, IN. We received many warm farewells on our way out of work this afternoon. Getting onto the interstate we opened a little gift from our awesome mom: a box of homemade cookies and a sweet card. Mom's chocolate chip cookies are the BEST. I'm guarding these suckers! :)



Not only did our friend Joe help us tremendously with preparing Ronnie (the car) for One Lap, he ALSO loaned us his E-ZPass for tolls. So, now we've had our FIRST experience driving through a toll booth without even opening a window! Crazy! Technology these days... Thanks Joe!




Our car is filled; maybe because we are deemed "Lap Puppies" (aka One Lap newbies)... or maybe we were just taught to be well prepared by our Eagle Scout father... or maybe it's because Dave chose to have a girl come with him on this journey... regardless we both are laughing and joking about ditching some of it along the way. I thought I did pretty well packing! If you see my normal baggage for a weekend trip... this is NOTHING! :)

THE BEST thing just happened. No joke... as I'm typing this. We have officially met up with a convoy of One Lap cars. Six to be exact. We were so stunned and giddy we forgot to take a picture; our time lapse camera caught one though! (See Challenger on left side of car in picture below). If you saw some of these cars... you could very well drool. 2 Corvettes, 1 1970s Challenger, 1 tricked out Honda Civic, 1 Porsche, and 1 Ferrari. That's a cool half a million dollars in cars. Wow. Thank GOODNESS the big dogs I just listed won't be competeing against us in our class. Oy.



Don't worry, much more to come, but wanted to let you all know we are on the road and super excited!!