November 17, 2005
3000+ miles
Leigh is the redhead....Jason once again is sitting down.
I left Boston Thursday around 6pm for the wonderful drive to Princeton. I ended up working in the car the entire ride down. I definitely think that broadband wireless connections are needed very badly. I was working on a connection that was reminiscent of a 14.4k modem....holy fuck that sucked.
Friday was a play day meaning we were running around getting equipment set up for the regatta on Saturday morning USRowing Fall2005 Speed Orders). Dinner included us bringing a bottle of wine to a Indian/Thai restaurant and me going to bed at around 1am.
Saturday: Up at 4am in order to shower and be at the race course around 5-530am. I ended up meeting the cornel women’s coach at 5am in the local 7-11ish type place getting coffee which was pretty cool. Racing began at the absurd hour of 7am. Any way the regatta went off without a hitch except for our brand new APC unit crapping out on us. Drove to Newark and ended up having our flight delayed for an hour, which was OK because we ended up abusing the AmEx platinum card privileges and set up shop in the continental Admirals Club. The flight finally left for Seattle. I think I ended up going to bed around 130am which means I was up for roughly 24hours and 30min...SUCK.
Queue Head of the Lake on Sunday morning:
here are some off the more interesting starting line pictures that I've extracted from the capture files. Ill hit up the FL pictures when I get a chance. Dinner and then up Monday morning at 530 for an airport run.
Jason got a cavity search by the people at Sea-Tac. We did learn something interesting about the numbers on our tickets because of this experience.