spalind
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Baja Portalegre 500 is 10/27-10/29 (a Thursday, Friday, Saturday) and located about 150 miles East of Lisbon and you could get away with being away from home for less than a week. Short event but easily spectated given its condensed format similar to the just completed Italian Baja. Flights out of Boston/NYC are around $650 right now.
Oilibya Rally of Morocco is 10/1-10/7 (a Saturday to a Saturday) is about as big as a Rally-Raid gets outside of Dakar, much more difficult to spectate (hell, to cover the event as a member of the official press is going to run some $2K) as locations will change every day, I assume accommodations will be more difficult, etc. if you haven't paid to be on some sort of tour with the event. Flights out of Boston/NYC to Tangiers/Agadir are just just of $1K. Would have to be away from home for almost two weeks.
I REALLY want to go to one of these as the time commitment and cost of spectating Dakar is a bit much for me but these fit in with my budget/time constraints (read: Wife will kill me if I essentially take a month off for Dakar).
Would anyone from either side of the Atlantic have a desire to join me on such a trip or know that they are already attending one of these two?
Oilibya Rally of Morocco is 10/1-10/7 (a Saturday to a Saturday) is about as big as a Rally-Raid gets outside of Dakar, much more difficult to spectate (hell, to cover the event as a member of the official press is going to run some $2K) as locations will change every day, I assume accommodations will be more difficult, etc. if you haven't paid to be on some sort of tour with the event. Flights out of Boston/NYC to Tangiers/Agadir are just just of $1K. Would have to be away from home for almost two weeks.
I REALLY want to go to one of these as the time commitment and cost of spectating Dakar is a bit much for me but these fit in with my budget/time constraints (read: Wife will kill me if I essentially take a month off for Dakar).
Would anyone from either side of the Atlantic have a desire to join me on such a trip or know that they are already attending one of these two?