Audrey returned to her hotel room and told her husband, "I want to go on another rally and I want to go now". Audrey had never been on an auto rally before this day. She had never been to a four day Morgan event that included a rally, a gymkhana, an autocross,  a scenic motor tour, a historic town, a dinner and winery visit, the Parade of Morgan Four Seaters, and a noggin at the end of every day, before she came to Mog 32. She had just finished her first Morgan rally, with her friend Judy Herman, and she wasn't shy about how much she liked it!

Mog 32 was Audrey's first Mog. But it was the Morgan Car Club of Washington DC's thirty-second annual Morgan event. She had been to other Morgan events. In fact, Audrey is a real Morgan person. She and her husband often take two week vacations coursing up and down the East Coast of Canada and the United States in their 1984 +8. Her husband is Lorne, id the self taught expert in thenew world of Morgans on the Internet. He is the webmaster of the GoMog web site at http://www.gomog.com and he and I founded the new electronic Morgan discussion group, the eMog Pub, at http:///www.emog.com. I had invited Lorne to present a clinic on Morgans and the Internet at Mog 32.

Audrey and Lorne drove their +8 a thousand miles from their home in the mountains of Quebec, Canada to Ingleside Resort in Staunton, Virginia, where they joined 180 other Morgan lovers on July 3, 2002 for the Mog 32 kick-off BBQ. They met long time internet friends like Perry Nuhn, who drove 700 miles from Florida, Lance Lipscomb from Atlanta, Georgia, and Joe Speetjens who drove his 1995 +8 eleven hundred miles from Mississippi. They made new friends like Al Marsh, one of the original members of the Morgan Car Club of Washington D.C. and they visited with old friends like Mog 32Rally Master Carl and Bev Shriver.

On July 4th, the Goldmans blue on blue +8 joined 80 other Morgans for the Mog 32 Concours sponsored by JC Taylor Insurance. Audrey enjoyed Homer Deakin's, Best of Class, Yellow 1959 +4 Four Seater, and newcomer Ray Morgan's Best of Show rare (only 2 in existence) left hand drive 1933 SS Three Wheeler. John Sheally II was there to introduce his new, book "The Rare Ones, Peter Morgan and the Plus Four Plus", and Audrey queued up for an autographed copy.

Later that afternoon, Audrey missed the Old World Restoration Morgan Gymkhana. I didn't see her on the sidelines as we watched cars wind through cones, and the passengers tried to pick tennis balls off the road. I checked With Tom Warden and the Goldmans were not registered for that event. I know that she and Lorne did not attend the annual 4th of July fireworks display, at the nearby state park that evening. Perhaps she went on the Motor Tour of the central Virginia countryside, sponsored by the Morgan Motor Cars of New England. But late that night she at the Nightly Noggin around the resort's swimming pool. There she listened to plans for the Isis Imports rally scheduled for the next morning.  Rallies always take so much time planning. Drivers and navigators have to review all the 32 rallies, and a few non-Morgan rallies. Then there are the over-told stories of rallies gone wrong. Someone, sometime during the evening suggested Audrey become Judy's navigator for the big Mog 32 chase. Neither had ever been on an auto rally!

8:00 AM the third day of Mog 32, Audrey and Judy attended their first rally meeting, with 41 other teams. After, they climbed into Squeaky, our 1953 Drophead Coupe and lined up for the start just behind the Ingleside Resort. At 10:00 AM they were off on their adventure in the historic Virginia hills. It's hard to know what went on during their journey, but reports came in from the third checkpoint that the girls were parked across the street and laughing so hard they couldn't cross to check in. Audrey and Judy did actually finish the rally and reported in only ten minutes late.

Somehow, the road trip changed Audrey. She was quiet at her husband's clinic, "Morgans and the Internet". But, that evening, while we had dinner and local wine at Rockbridge Winery, she explained to us how to run a Morgan rally. Later that night at the Noggin she and her friend planned how to improve the next the Mog 33 Rally.
 
 
 
 
 

Saturday July 6th began with the Melvyn Rutter Autocross. Audrey could be found in the sidelines cheering at the speeding cars. She cheered for JohnSheally II as he set thefastest time of the day on the small tract. Late that day, I lost track of her and was preparing the Parade of theMorgan Four Seaters. We paraded sixteen four seaters around theresort area tothe door of the banquet hall. After the Parade the official night's fun began. We moved two Morgans into the Hall, and someone projected slide of Mog I on the wall while we enjoyed the cocktail party.
 

The Mog 32 Awards Banquet was the last major event of the week. During the banquet, I was occupied helping Scott Willoughby conduct the awards program. But later that night, at the last Noggin of Mog 33, I visited with Audrey again. She was still talking about her rally adventure. We all agreed to meet again at Mog 33 next year when Audrey, Judy and Squeaky can go rallying a second time.