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Sunrise to Sunset Rally (continued)<br />
My mathematics studies in college and graduate school helped<br />
me solve this problem (or maybe it was in junior high):<br />
A Porsche 997 leaves Daytona on I-95 southbound at Mile<br />
Marker 265 for Vero Beach at 112 mph. A Porsche Carrera<br />
GT leaves Vero Beach northbound on I-95 at Mile Marker<br />
138 at 184 mph. At what Mile Marker will they meet?<br />
At the final checkpoint control, we received a list of questions<br />
about things we had seen, like the color of the trim at the train<br />
station. It’s one thing to look for clues while you’re driving,<br />
but another to remember what you saw earlier in the day.<br />
We arrived at the Hotel Isis on the Gulf in Redington Shores.<br />
After checking into our room, we finished our paperwork.<br />
Kevin’s questions on our criminal investigator “job<br />
application” were absolutely hilarious, like whether we are<br />
registered sex offenders! We submitted our application for<br />
scoring and joined the other rally teams at the reception.<br />
Mimosas were flowing, and so were the stories.<br />
We walked from our hotel to dinner at the Doubletree’s Sunset<br />
Room in North Redington Beach where we had a great view<br />
of the sun setting (8:03PM) over the Gulf of Mexico.<br />
After dinner, Kevin announced the winners and thanked us for<br />
material for the next 20 years in his Criminal Justice class at<br />
Daytona. The winner described his qualifications as “good<br />
with handcuffs!” Other people listed jury duty, fighting in<br />
Viet Nam, and watching law enforcement TV shows like<br />
Dragnet and the Andy Griffith Show. This was a very creative<br />
group of people. I can’t remember when I’ve laughed so<br />
much!<br />
This rally was brought back by popular demand after a hiatus<br />
for few years. Keep an eye out for an encore. You won’t<br />
want to miss the next one!<br />
Top: Porsches line up for the start; Porsche of Melbourne’s Shay Rowe in Porsche cockpit; sunset over the Gulf from Doubletree in North Redington<br />
Beach; Bottom: Teams finalize their PCA criminal investigator job applications; Bob and Connie Schmitt toast the end of day at Hotel Isis.<br />
13 Porscheklatsch June 2008
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