Planes, Trains & Automobiles

When I took my European Sabbatical, the timing was great. I had just quit my job, put my stuff into storage and left my car with my dad and hit the road. It was relatively easy to get going.

Jennifer and I have been planning a 3 or 4 month around-the-world trip now for many months. When I say planning, I mostly mean we’ve been talking about it. Little in the way of real planning has been done beyond checking what shots we would need. She quit her job at Ask Jeeves in November and our goal was to leave somewhere in the April timeframe.

As it turns out, leaving isn’t always easy. Things with …

A completely amazing finish for a car that had never turned a wheel in a race, the ART / Easy Street / Car & Driver / JustRacing.com Subaru WRX STI has finished 3rd place in the ES class and 3rd place overall! It’s now 8:40pm and I’m back in San Francisco. After the last update it was mostly wait-and-see. We had our aces Dave McEntee and Gary Sheehan piloting the car to the checkered and were closely monitoring the progress of the cars in 1st and 2nd place and 4th place. It didn’t look like the 1st place Porsche, 10 laps ahead, was going to be reachable unless they suffered a mechanical issue in the …