"Challenge" apologies, from John

[John-Tucson]

I'd like to apologise to the Challenge participants who were left without clear directions about where we were going. By way of explanation, I made a decision as we drove away from the Eloy airport to bypass the planned stop at the Francisco Grande and to go directly to the Dairy Queen. This was based on a quick conversation when I was told that some of the folks were not going to Francisco Grande but directy to the D.Q., this took place as we were leaving the Eloy airport. My thoughts were to keep the group together and lead all of us to the D.Q. Also, I was thinking of trying to find the nearest gas station for the two guys who needed fuel, I knew that there was no fuel available on the planned route to the Francisco Grande. My thoughts were to keep us all together. As it turned out, some were caught at stop lights along my now improvised route and had no directions and no idea about where to go since we were in an area we'd never driven in before. In retrospect I should have stopped and informed everyone of the change in plans and broken our group into three separate groups of ten, smaller groups seem to work a lot better in any city traffic. I apologize to those that I caused to be lost, inconvienced, and miss out on the cameradry of traveling with our large group.