The Blue Jacket

It has been a few weeks since the first flurry of excitement began with the initial planning for the journey to LeMans in 2014.  What has happened since?  The word has been spread amongst friends, family and colleagues and there is a burgeoning group that is making the trip. 

Not a whole lot has occurred yet on the logistical planning front.  I checked the ACO ticketing site at lemans.org this morning and it only displays the message "See you soon for the sales opening of the 2014 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans!" Once it goes live, will start to think about some deadlines to buy a batch of grandstand tickets.

And, unfortunately, I did not get that box of earmuffs I mentioned in the previous post.  Note to self - buy first, blog later.  The box was already sold when I came back to buy it a few hours after posting about it.  Oh well.

With all that said, here's a random LeMans encounter: I traveled to Montreal in early October and about an hour after disembarking from the plane into a French-speaking region of the world, I find this gentleman wearing his blue LeMans Dunlop jacket.  He had stepped off a bus with a tour group walking up to the Notre Dame Basilica on Place d'Armes square in Montreal.  Note the matching tone blue mini umbrella in his hand - this outfit was very intentional!