Texted last night at 10:45<\/p>\n
If the truck had been another 6 inches closer I would not be texting you right now…\u00a0 It is 3 am here and I am in an airport somewhere in Chile trying to get a flight to Santiago<\/p>\n
I am going to go to Santiago and have a shower a good nights rest a good meal and think of a new adventure to look forward to. And give away the Duncan flags I just found in my suitcase. I swear I have given away 2000 flags they were really popular.<\/p>\n
I feel of course gutted to finally realize finishing the Dakar is not happening. At the same time proud that I finished the two toughest days of the Dakar. This was the last airport for about 7 days so I booked a flight and will meet up with our son. Otherwise all I had to look forward to was 1000s of of kilometers driving and that was not for me.<\/p>\n
The thing about being a racer is that I am a lousy spectator not to mention that our team still has a rider in the event, the support truck is setup for the two support people the riders were never supposed to be in the truck with them meaning I was sitting on a coke crate between gas cans and spare parts.it is normal for the racer to leave the bivouac at the first opportunity to get out.<\/p>\n
No it was a very dramatic moment. My bike was damaged and I did not know if I could continue. I did not want Natalie to worry because I knew she was tracking me and she would see I was not moving. I asked to borrow an officials telephone at that point I did not know there was a news crew near by.<\/p>\n
Just boarding got to go into airplane mode… Talk to you later<\/p>\n
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Texted last night at 10:45<\/p>\n
If the truck had been another 6 inches closer I would not be texting you right now… It is 3 am here and I am in an airport somewhere in Chile trying to get a flight to Santiago<\/p>\n
I am going to go to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rallyraidcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}