The team continues to improve! Our score today was 32 seconds which placed us 5th in Sportsman Division and 25th overall for the day. We had the potential of a much better score except for a problem that occurred on the second leg. We were following a veteran very experienced team and they actually made a serious mistake. They made a speed change at the wrong sign, slowing from 45 to 25 at the wrong place and blocking the road in front of us. We were also forced to slow down and initially thought that we must have made the mistake. They quickly realized their error and roared away, but we had failed to account for all our time loss and this resulted in a 21-second score for this leg. Scores for the other three legs were a very respectable 2, 5, and 4 seconds. Each of the legs was very long with the 2-second score coming on a leg of 2 hours, 16 minutes.

The morning pit stop was in the little town of Ferdinand, IN where we were escorted by the Boy Scouts and the local ladies of the Red Hat Society into the food area where we sampled turtle soup and bratwurst sandwiches. We also were routed through the grounds of the large Best Chair factory whose owner just happens to be Great Racer Clem Lange, Car #20.

An outstanding buffet lunch was hosted by the town of Washington, IN. Our host, Tony Potts, arranged for Dawn to have the unexpected pleasure of getting her photo taken with a local celebrity, Rupert, of Survivor fame.