Manhattan to L.A.: A 31-hour road trip
BY TEHANI SCHNEIDER • DAILY RECORD
Behind the wheel of a speeding BMW, Dave Maher glimpsed the Arch in St. Louis around daybreak and felt a rush of adrenaline as he and his driving partner inched closer to their goal.
“(Seeing it) kind of gave you a little sense of life, and the sun was coming up,” recalled Maher, 33, of New York City. “We were pushing hard the whole night.”
In a flash, the famed landmark was gone as the BMW whizzed west toward its destination. Maher and his partner, renowned rally race driver Alex Roy, were on their way in October 2006 to breaking the transcontinental driving record from New York City to Los Angeles.
