The Overcrest Rally trip report, life changing Options

[Optimusglen]

I wanted to share with you all my experience at the Overcrest Rally for 2021
This was, beyond a doubt, the best automotive event I've ever been to. Even now looking back it's hard to take it all in and unpack, so I'll just start from the beginning. 2 years before the event. Get comfy, grab some popcorn, because this is a doozy.


Prelude:
A couple of friends of mine, Kris and Jake, run a podcast called Overcrest. It's an automotive-based podcast and generally has automotive topics. Both of them have long hood 911's so Porsche comes up frequently. I've known Kris forever, we were in each other's weddings, etc. We've also been doing fall drives together for quite some time, so it was no surprise when they wanted to plan a rally for the podcast and their listeners. It was 2019 and I helped a bit with some of the graphics.

The 2019 rally was a great local rally, it picked up several nice roads on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota. This was the last year I had my 914 at the rally, and it was the year I overcooked my brakes and had a little "off" that sent me home with my tail between my legs but more or less unscathed.

In 2020 they wanted to do a national rally, but they knew they weren't there yet. The two pulled in another friend, Jeff, to help them along. The year was thought of as a stepping stone to get to the point where a national audience would take them seriously. So it was a 2-day rally, planned and plotted out. Cool swag, and really thought out. I attended, but at this time my 4-cyl was dead and my 6 was yet to be built, so I drove an Audi TT that I rented using Turo. Again, it was immensely great for a local rally. It drew some audience from outside the midwest, but not much.

[Optimusglen]

Monday, September 20th. 8am

With rain and possible hail in the forecast, I left home. Each mile was a success as we managed to weave in and out of weather systems, never getting much more than a splash of rain on occasion. When I made it out of Minnesota I was a little shocked that I hadn't had to stop to fix anything. I told myself that once I got to the first night's destination, Hershey, Nebraska, that I would be able to relax. Well, it made it without a hiccup. It was supposed to be 10 hours, but between the stops and rests it ended up being nearly 12 hours exactly. We took a route through Minnesota and into Iowa and Nebraska that avoided the major interstates and so thankful that we did. Driving 35 through Iowa and then I-80 through Nebraska is soul-sucking.

I was traveling with two others. Kris in his 1972 911T hotrod (short stroke 3.2 IIRC) and Chad in his 1983 911 SC.

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We connected with our friend and one of the event organizers Jeff with his 911 Targa in Merna, Nebraska, and paid a visit to his mother's gravesite. From here we split up, they were staying in North Platte and I was in Hershey.

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