| Introduction
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Hour 1 - "Hold On For Dear
Life!"
The Lizard began at about 10:30 at a Walmart SuperCenter, but
Ben and I got lost and almost missed the event! Luckily we arrived
just as the group was pulling out of the parking lot. Since
we were late, we didn't know what was going on, nor did we have
maps, so we just followed whoever we could. That turned out
to be a bad idea because we ended up with the aggressive group.
Ben was driving this segment and was pushing the car pretty
hard, but those WRXs would keep leaving us behind after the
curves. I'd estimate that they regularly broke 100 on the straightaways.
We had a couple close calls, one was just a little curve that
caused our car to fishtail a little and another was a 4-tire
smoking skid to prevent us from rear-ending the CCB WRX.
With Ben driving, all I could do was hold on for dear life as
I was tossed around in the curves. I had long since given up
taking pictures. Our only saving grace was traffic or other
hazards that caused the group to slow down until we caught up.
But eventually, the group got farther and farther away. Being
without a map, we had no idea which way to go, and eventually
the group was so far ahead that we ended up at an intersection
with no indication of which way to turn. We ended up waiting
10 minutes before the next "spirited turbo" group
showed up (see the last picture) and lent us an extra map and
we were on our way again with this new group. We could quickly
tell that this group was noticeably more sane and right along
the level we could comfortably push ourselves. |
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| Starting off on The Lizard. We're
following the only other non-Subaru, a Mazda Protege5. |
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| Driving through the beautiful autumn
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| The aggressive group... slowly leaving
us farther and farther behind. |
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| Everyone's gone! Ben looks around
and I put some junk in the trunk while we wait for the next
group. |
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| The next group is much more sane.
Watch out for that buggy! Turns out we were lost and had to
make a u-turn anyway. |
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| Introduction
| Hour 1 | Hour 2 | Hour
3 | Hour 4 | Hour
5 | Survey Pictures |
