Placerville

We don't know how many years, but it's a certain amount of years that we're going to be operating them.

So in general with material costs and going up, it's probably going to be a solid, uh, $30,000 to $35,000 because we're not going to have a donated motor and pieces off the Unimog that no longer exists that's sitting on a trailer in Placerville now.

So we're probably looking around $30,000 to $35,000.

There's some things that we would do a little different if we were to do another project, but there's not a lot of money savings.

Then in the wintertime, um, we would probably take the trailer, the Ford ice trailer back to Fortis Hill.

Uh, it was probably where it would live, you know, in the off season, like the block trailer.

Um, it lives in Placerville and a default.

It can live at my place if it, if it had to.

She had recently secured a new job and a new apartment, and this midnight drive up the steep, winding mountain passes was meant to be the final leg of an exhausting transition.

Now, Route 50 is a scenic, multi-lane highway by day, but as it ascends into the high country toward places like Placerville and Pollock Pines, it becomes a claustrophobic ribbon of asphalt.

The road is flanked on one side by sheer rock walls and on the other by steep, plunging ravines that drop hundreds of feet into dense, dark canopies of old-growth timber.

There are no streetlights, so when night falls, the only visibility comes from a driver's own headlights reflecting off the reflective road markers and the eyes of nocturnal wildlife.

I'll be staying down there with them as well.

Hiring a van for the, you know, first couple of weeks, and now I'm looking into getting a camper for the actual racing, because round one at Hangtown is like 80 hours from where I'm staying.

Mm-hmm.

And then from Hangtown to Thunder Valley, which is round two the week after, is 17 hours.

Okay.

And then from round two to round three the week after is another 17.