Hi,

It is Thursday evening. Today we qualified for starting positions in the race which starts tomorrow. Everything went well. We qualified 42nd overall, one tenth of a second behind our German friends. I'll get them tomorrow. Our run was only OK. Our intercom was not working properly so I could not hear Philip calling the turns. I believe it is working properly now.

Tonight there is a big celebration for the La Carrera in downtown Veracruz. We will be there with the race cars until the drivers meeting at 9pm. Tomorrow we have a 104 mile transit to the first speed stage then several more speed stages before lunch and several more after before pulling into Oaxaca for the night.

I forgot to mention a very important part ov our time in San Miguel. Our friend from last year, Pedro, could not be here this year. Each year he has purchased backpacks and filled them with school supplies for young girls in an orphanage in San Miguel. Since he was not here this year, I picked up the  task of buying the supplies and delivering them to the girls. In all they needed 23 backpacks with supplies. It was great fun trying to find everything we needed and putting everything in the backpacks. We met most of the girls and it was great watching them pick out their backpack and looking for the surprises we put in each one. So little goes so far here in Mexico. Please take a look at the pictures of the girls.

That's it for now. More after ther first day of racing.
Kevin