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Dustball Rally 1000

"It's about the drive." The Dustball Rally 1000 starts Aug. 25 in El Paso, TX and ends there a day later. This is a "gimmick" rally where teams solve puzzles and avoid being tricked as they find their way to mystery locations. They earn points along the way. Nobody knows where the Saturday overnight location is. Me (Rick) and my sister (Liz) are Team MINI Dust Mites (#77). We'll be sharing driving and navigating responsibilities. We'll be competing against no more than 50 teams for the $1500 1st prize. This is not a race, but we'll be carefully following directions and navigating the MINI Cooper within 500 miles, we think, of El Paso. We'll be followed and monitored by sponsors, photographers, video and others. Find out more at http://www.DustballRally.com .
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    The longer we linger, the more attention we attract. We have to explain that this is a gimmick rally, not a race to almost everybody we encounter.
    Team Two MINI rocks out. They carried their food and drink in a cooler, thus avoiding some of the time-wasting stops.
    Now on US-90 heading west and into the town of Uvalde, where we obtained an answer and asked the locals a question pertaining to the next town. At this point, we tended to meet up with fellow rallyists Team Chingon from Las Cruces, NM. We're both trying for the grand prize, so we're understandably evasive but friendly toward each other.