1993 Camel Trophy winner, Michael Hussey, to attend VOT!
Ladies and gentlemen, I have tremendous news. Last winter, when I was cooking up the harebrained scheme that is VOT, I found myself gathering inspiration by watching every Camel Trophy video I could find on Youtube. At some point at about 2 in the morning one night in a bleary-eyed trance watching the vids, I stumbled across the 1993 CT Malaysia vid. At the end of the vid, I heard the narrator exclaim, "Big congrats to Tim Hensley and Michael Hussey....OF MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT!
Now we've all heard of well-known CT vets like Bill Burke, Tom Collins, Daphne Green and Jim Swett, etc., but I had never heard of Mike Hussey and, what's more, that was THE ONLY YEAR THE US TEAM EVER WON CT!
So a quick google search later and I find a Michael Hussey in Middlebury and he's the nordic ski director at Middlebury College. Could it be the same guy? I get his email from the MC athletics website and write to him. No response, which is kind of what I expected. A few days ago, I said what the heck and wrote to him again and low and behold he responded and, yes, it's THE Michael Hussey, 1993 CT winner!
But, listen to this. Not only does Michael love the idea of VOT, he's going to
BE AT BASE CAMP ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 TO CHILL WITH THE WHOLE VOT POSSE!!!!!!!!!
That's right, Michael will swing down and have a Lillie Brook Farm burger and beer with us and we get to pepper him with questions about the real Camel Trophy!!!
For folks on the fence about coming to R-ham to camp at the farm for the weekend, I hope this provides enough incentive. This is not to be missed!
Here's the 1993 CT vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JvHSR5wFZQ (go to 1 hour and you'll see Michael's victory interview)