Good Morning Maryland!

Wow! What a non-stop adventure the last 48+ hours have been! After finally getting a chance to work the day shift Wednesday, Veronica and I paid for it dearly with a 7+ hour drive to the middle of West Virginia for the night to "rest", (er, morning,) as you can see from the shot above. We ended up getting in Thursday around 9am, spending an hour looking for a hotel that had enough rooms, only to go back and crash at the first one we had stopped at that didn't before but did an hour later. (Why am I feeling like this isn't making sense right now? Oh yeah, delirium. Sorry. Anyway...)

Thursday afternoon we peeled ourselves out of bed around 2:30pm and joined Ken and Jeremy for a roller coaster ride at the sunset, with 5 hours of non-stop 7% inclines and 9% descents around curvy mountain roads. The night shift took over around 10pm EST, and Andrew and Tobias really kicked some butt and powered our team ahead despite having some really tough climbs as well as getting lost or accidentally instructed off-course more than a few times. Unfortunately, you guys may have missed some of the night shift video feed- they too had curvy roads packed in with some of the tallest trees I've seen this side of the Mississippi, and our internet and satellite feed were down for more than a few hours... So Veronica and I took a quick little nappy. Time completely well spent. Hehe.

And now it is Friday morning. We haven't really slept more than 3-4 hours a "night" per 30 hour shift all week, and we haven't had a real meal (even including fast food stops!) in at least 3 days, but the Veronicas are still rocking and rolling. Why? Because we're crazy. Oh yeah- and because in less than 2 hours we will be done with this race and drinking a beer. Whoohoo!!!

Until the Finish Line,

-V