Experience of a Lifetime!!
Hello to everyone and so sorry to everyone else who missed out on the ADVENTURE of a LIFETIME!! My fist time participating in the gumball rally 3000 was a star studded, heart pumping, nonstop adrenaline rush! No exaggeration! We kicked off in downtown San Fransisco being escorted by a police motorcade through the beautiful city only to begin the most exiting cat and mouse game I have ever been a part of! Cruizing behind David Hasslehoff, driving the original Knight Rider, was a “Hassle” in itself due to his participation in that little show called Baywatch, aside from the already massive gumball rally crowds, he drew a following of his own. When we stopped to let traffic through, I couldn’t help but notice an excess amount of attention I was getting and I haven’t even released my album yet!LOL! But these were some oooo’s and aaaa’s and awkward stares so I looked in the backseat and they was no one where 3 people had originally been when we started! There was one hanging out the window, and the other two no where to be found! The motorcade starts waving us through!!! Oh no…do I just leave without them?? Dallas Tanner of Destination X TV in the back says go go or you will lose your position to another driver!…….another one jumps in as we are accelerating, but where’s Dion? I can hear him down the line of cars way in the back and we are already gone so he HAD to jump in with none other than Alfonso Ribiero, the co-star of Fresh Prince “Carlton” So not only is Dion safe and still in the rally, but he is riding with the costar of one of my favorite shows of all time!! Im jealous!
Then, I look directly behind me and see Bam Magera and his people from Viva La Bam hangin out the window showing off for our camaras appropriately living up to their crazy reputation. We found them a couple days later narrowly missing a huge ticket for backing up on the shoulder of the freeway because they missed their exit. HA HA crazy guys! Amatures is what I call them! hehe.
Meanwhile our driver Ashley Van Dyke and her navigator/co-pilot Erik Ward were already at the next checkpoint feet kicked up, relaxing in the shade with an ice cold beverage complete with the little umbrella……what?!!! wait a second…..they dont have time for that…..they were fueling up, anticipating their next location, and grabbing a bite to eat as they’re preparing for takeoff!
This was by far the most exciting event that I have ever been involved with and it turns out that in the 10 years of Gumball Rally history, it just keeps getting better and better! In 2001 Johhny Knoxville, Steve-O, and Chris Pontius of Jackass participated as well as comedian Vic Reeves. Over the years stopping at places such as Hugh Hefner’s home the Playboy Mansion, The White House in Washington DC, Elvis Presley’s Mansion in Graceland, the list goes on! All I know is that every year you can count me in!!