Saturday, September 30, 2017

I checked in to 11 places, took 45 photos, wrote 2 microblogs, and walked 3.98 miles. I was in Iowa.

7:40 am

Checked in at Tonic Bar, West Des Moines, Iowa

7:47 am

Stickin the RFID chip on

7:55 am

Puttin on the rally windshield decals

8:07 am

Rally day! Meet Kari and I for the after party / car show at West Glen tonight around 6pm. Lots of rad / interesting / hilarious cars here.

8:12 am

Panda

8:15 am

These Top Gun datsun dudes were blaring music from the movie on their BT speaker. It was a rad car and a hilarious team.

8:23 am

Tryin out one of those Homer Simpson donuts from Hurts

8:24 am

This American Gladiators team was hilarious.

8:25 am

A rad mustang

8:28 am

This porsche had the raddest decals ... and some lil good mascots in unicorn PJs.

8:35 am

This glitter bug stalled on the way in and broke down completely on the second leg.

8:44 am

Checked in at Hurts Donuts, West Des Moines, Iowa

9:09 am

Gettin ready to leave the first checkpoint ... right behind my high school dream car.

9:35 am

Kari, navigatin

10:19 am

The Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge has some really fun roads winding through it

10:29 am

Checked in at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, Prairie City, Iowa

10:35 am

Viper guts

10:38 am

A clean little Alfa Romeo spider

10:39 am

Big wheel races

10:49 am

I was terrible at steering this squirrely thing

11:59 am

Rallyin

12:17 pm

Checked in at Jethros Bbq Steak And Chop, Ames, Iowa

12:51 pm

Meetin some therapy dogs at lunch

12:59 pm

Checked in at Swift Stop, Ames, Iowa

1:09 pm

Nicked a curb trying to give this old farmer dude some room to navigate his truck at a gas station and got some road rash on the bottom of my side skirt... He paid me back by cutting in front of me to leave the place. It doesn't always pay to be the nice guy.

1:12 pm

A rad, super clean 79 Mustang pace car

1:13 pm

Waaaaaant

1:18 pm

A bad Viper GTS

1:24 pm

Checked in at Jethros Bbq Steak And Chop, Ames, Iowa

1:37 pm

Service dogs curious about the drone

2:14 pm

Stopped by the slowest moving train on Leg 4!

2:16 pm

Rally cars waiting for the train to pass

2:42 pm

Checked in at Whatchasmokin, Luther, Iowa

2:43 pm

The Bitch at BFE Vintate Motorcycles

2:46 pm

Hangin at BFE Vintage Motorcycles

2:56 pm

This Stingray was so clean. Beautiful color too.

2:57 pm

Inside the Stingray. Beautiful.

3:19 pm

Another slowdown...

3:47 pm

Linin up at the Minburn checkpoint

3:47 pm

Checked in at The Nineteen14, Minburn, Iowa

3:50 pm

Iowa Football fans at rad little bar at the Minburn checkpoint

4:11 pm

lil bit of smoke there

4:19 pm

This team was rolling in a convertible handing out tacos all day

5:16 pm

Checked in at Blue Moon Piano Bar, West Des Moines, Iowa

5:16 pm

Finished!

5:18 pm

Just finished up the road rally! Come hang with us at West Glen and probably watch us get a 1st place trophy! t.co/11Rn7oEMt9
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5:18 pm

Wishing this was my fleet of cars.

5:23 pm

A super clean old Cadillac convertible

5:30 pm

Dat smurf ass. Photo by Ryan Roossinck

5:34 pm

Lined up at the afterparty

5:47 pm

An amazingly clean right hand drive Tommy Kaira Skyline

6:46 pm

The Isiserettes arrive

6:57 pm

The Isiserettes are badass, man.
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6:58 pm

The Isiserettes

7:05 pm

The Isiserettes drummers

7:05 pm

The Isiserettes drummers

9:05 pm

Checked in at Akebono, Des Moines, Iowa

9:19 pm

Checked in at Brooks' Dead End Ranch, Des Moines, Iowa

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