The Highly Anticipated Rendezvous

The Excitement level is revving quite high! We arrived safely in Laredo, TX around 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. It has been a few hard days of traveling across this great country like a band of gypsies, but was a very pleasant reminder of why we’ve come all this way when we pulled into the hotel this afternoon and saw a 1965 Mustang GT 350 in fit racing trim.
We will take some time this afternoon and tomorrow to look over the car and truck, and will cross the border into Mexico with the Coyote Convoy early Saturday morning.

Below are pictures of some of the first cars to arrive in Laredo...

.... As you can see from this small sample this race will be containing a plethora of mobility from the likes of a poised Jag E-type to the sophisticated but calculated (very well prepped) Mercedes 220 SE, and the most brut beasts to ever come out of South Bend, or Detroit(the Studebaker and Mustang).

Excitement levels are always high before a race. In this case we still have 2000 miles more to go just to get to the start. As we look around at some of these brilliant machines the "red mist" of the need for speed can be found creeping into every thought in comparing our little Rudi to the "competition." However, we have found our coping mechanism to be keeping our thoughts on what we came here to do; finish this race and learn as much as we can while showing others a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels.
Tomorrow will surly be filled with more stories of this border town where two cultures seemed smashed together giving us the comforts of home, while foreshadowing the array of scenery and culture that we will encounter during the next week.
More to come...