lost in lone pine

my pal brian pinged me a few weeks ago to join him to follow the green race called "escape from berkeley". ive been watching the development on this project from the beginning. of course im delighted because i myself escaped from berkeley several years ago. but i like the difficulty of the project - to engineer a car to run on scavenged fuel and then "race" to vegas. i thought i wouldn't be able to attend - so i turned my friend down. but the world works in strange ways and a door opened. so im here in a bar listening to classic rock like the doors and mamas and papas and grace slick - some really good stuff actually. just killing time shooting the shit in lone pine waiting for the racers to arrive.