25 days to go...

I have been putting together songs like mad to come up with a CD for the chase. I think I will end it with my rip-off of Bohemian Rhapsody today. Our final chase roster looks like this:

Alister Chapman: Driver
Roger Hill: Leader

Participants:

Jacquie Kukuk
Marie Smith
Lloyd Suter
Tom Howley
Steve Peach
Mark Rosengarten

We will inaugurate the brand-new chase van in 25 days. As Tom Petty once sang: "The waiting is the hardest part!"

38 days to go...

What can possibly be better than obsessing over a trip that is barely more than a month away? I have been putting together songs for the trip, and I just ordered a new digital camera for the trip. It's the Canon SD870 IS, and it features a time-lapse video mode that will make it easy to take those convection-bomb movies. It uses the same battery as my other camera does, so I will bring along the second battery as a spare. Only question...is there room in my gear bag for the spare battery? I have gone back and forth on how to pack my gadgets for this trip, and come back to the Podzilla every time. With 38 days to go, it is still my strongest contender.