Hello Friends!  We just arrived in Essouira after a 9 hour drive from the bivouac.  The drive was insanely beautiful and felt that pictures couldn’t do the landscape justice.  I’m not sure where to start, but we can say this…..The Rallye Aicha des Gazelles was a tough and demanding nine days.  Forget the “chick thing” [...]

Team Miller Fisher finished 21st overall and 5th out of 85 first year racers. Congratulations to Emily and Wendy! We are so proud of you!

“Wow, hard to believe we are finished!  We had a terrific day.  The marathon leg had a miserable CP 2 for everyone, 5 hours!  Last night we camped on the sand at the base of Chegaga Dunes and we had heard terrible stories about how hard they are and how hard to navigate. We grouped [...]

We have returned from our first marathon leg and tomorrow we start another.  Dunes of Merzouga were awesome! Some of the veteran gazelles tried to discourage us and we went for the first intermediate checkpoint. Went well, so we went after the “X” checkpoints and climbed to the top.  It was definitely demanding, [...]