Battle Mountain - The journey

After a bit of a slow start, we arrived at Schiphol Airport nicely on time. Checking in went fairly smooth. After that it got exciting, because the plane turned out to be fully booked. The ground and cabin crew were very helpful and we did get to travel on the plane we had hoped to get. The flight itself was without any problems. Picking up the rental car did turn out to be more troublesome than expected. The booked pickup was not ready for us. Even worse, they did not even have one. The personnel behind the desk was not very helpful and so we went to look for a better car in the garage. Finally we found a beter rental company. They did not have a pickup, so we are driving a Ford Expedition now. We travelled savely to Reno where we spent the night. On Sunday we travelled on to Battle Mountain where we were welcomed warmly at the Super 8 Motel. Some of the teams were already present, most of the other teams will probably arrive today. We are going to have some breakfast and then we will put the bike back together again.