The final Elvis costume was on tap and that’s the “Hellvis” outfit. Red jumpsuit with red devil horns.

After coming back from the driver’s briefing I woke Kern up. Let’s just say after one look at Frank I knew I would definitely be driving that morning shift.

Now instead of a real simple highway drive – today’s route was one of the most scenic we’ve had. We left out of Aspen to climb to 12,000 feet to one of the mountain passes. We were instructed to wait 5 minutes at the top of the pass because there was a helicopter that was filming us.

Cool!

We had the top down and at 12,000 feet and one filmsy “Hellvis” outfit it was damn cold! Brrrr…. Our little Lotus was perfect for taking the curvy mountain passes at speed. It was awesome! This time we finally ran with a pack the entire day. After coming down from 12,000 feet we stopped a little podunk town to get gas and regroup. Once again it so funny to see people’s expressions at all these super cars.

Once we hit a smallish highway some of the cars really took off. In fact, we found out later that about 5 people on the road had called some “aggressive driving hotline” and reported all of us. So the cops were actually hunting for us. Now some of the guys were completely nuts and need to have their heads examined. One guy I saw passed on a double yellow and on a blind curve! Stupid! I am proud to say Kern and I got ZERO tickets.

After lunch we left a little resort of Winter Park or Winter Sport and some guy in a white SUV was honking at us. I thought he just wanted to say ‘hi’ and we sped off after our pack. Finally 15-20 minutes later he caught up with at the entrance to once of the CO Nat’l parks. He said he was one of our customers and had been reading the blog and knew we were passing through his town. How cool is that? We actually got a quick video of him saying how he actually believes us that all of this is for real now. I appreciate that thought but not sure about the logic…

To me, seeing 2 guys in Elvis outfits in a bright green sportscar wouldn’t make me think they really were making money online – I’d probably just think they were nuts

We all convened at an airport 15 miles outside Denver and I thought we were going to take a copter ride or something like that – but that didn’t happen. Instead they had a final police escort to take us into Denver. They actually shut down parts of the highway for us and then shut down one of the main streets in the heart of Denver for our arrival. It was awesome! I felt like we were part of some victory parade. There were checkered flags and girls handed us bottles of champagne once we got there. Of course, it wasn’t long before I took upon myself to shake up my bottle of Moet and spray it on people. That might have made some good video but Mr. Kern forgot to charge our camera/video recorder the previous night. So it actually died right at the start of the police escort.

That night we had a black tie awards ceremony and dinner. There were 3 awards – Best Car, Best Hand (poker hand) and Best Spirit. We won Best Spirit for our Elvis outfits. We got a huge (probably 15-20 lb) Pewter plate. Not sure what I’m going to do with it but it’s on my bar downstairs in my office. I stuck in my luggage to take home and I bet when it was Xrayed it came up pretty odd. I had a note in my luggage that my bag was opened by TSA.

After the awards dinner, Kern and I left our tuxes on and headed for a private party they had for the Player’s Run participants at some local Denver club. It was pretty cool and a lot of fun.

I left on a 1pm flight the next day back home to the wife and kid. I needed 2 days of solid sleep to recover. But would I do it again? Hell yeah! Who knows maybe I can convince some of my other Internet buds to come along next year.

Kern completely forgot to charge our camera/video recorder so our camera died right before the police escort for the Denver finish line. Someone posted this on YouTube. You can see a small glimpse of the neon green lotus.

You guys already saw the video posted from Day 2. Here’s the quick recap.

This drive we were Vegas Elvis with a white sparkly jumpsuit. The iconic Elvis most people recognize. After waking up with a fuzzy head from all the hard math problems we did the night before – we grabbed our car out of the “THE hotel” garage and pulled up next to some of the other PlayersRun cars. Kern and I thought it might be fun to welcome a few people to Vegas. So we stood in the front of the lobby for 5 minutes and welcomed people coming in as official Vegas ambassadors. We wrote them out a velvet postcard from “The King”

Today’s drive was the longest drive and we sure felt it in our little Lotus. The passenger seat in that car is really not meant for long drives at all.

The cops in UT were pretty tough. I know a bunch of guys got pulled over. The rumor was somebody called in a huge multi-car accident the opposite direction from where our route was headed. The cops obviously didn’t find that amusing and were laying out some heavy fines. One of the guys we met, Reeza, was running a black Rolls Royce Phantom. He got pulled over twice within 30 minutes – and both times doing 120mph. They took him down to jail and had to be bailed out by his buddy. The funny thing is he had no idea how fast he was going because he put MrMota.com stickers all over his speedometer. www.MrMota.com

Another guy, Tim, was telling us about getting pulled over by the cops in his Bentley. He had won pretty big in Vegas and had $25,000 in cash that he had just thrown into his glove box. Well, you can probably guess what happened. He got pulled over and when he reached into his glovebox to get his registration out came a huge stack of 100s. The cop said, “Ahhh…is that all cash?”

Tim: “Yep”

Cop: “Are those all 100s?”

Tim: “Yep”

The cop luckily believed that he won all that money in Vegas and it all okay except for his speeding ticket.

On the way to Salt Lake, our checkpoint was Kolub Canyon inside Zion National park. (That’s the red road you see in the video). This was absolutely amazing! We were starting to get a better feel for the Lotus and these curves were perfect for the car. Flip that guy into 2nd or 3rd gear and it really tears up those curves much better than even the Supercars in the pack. Plus add in the fact there was no cops on the road leading up to the look-out point and we’re golden!

We finally got into Salt Lake around 10pm (because of the time change) and were pooped. Some of the die-hards went out but Frank and I turned in early (1 am) for some rest.

Sorry gang for no recent updates. Kern and I have been very busy solving math problems and working on the end of the world’s reliance on fossil fuels. We got lots of stuff to update you on and more videos…promise.

We’re late for our black-tie so more stuff later.

-Yanik

Yep. ‘Nuff said. Trained professionals …. Do not attempt this at home.