One recent Saturday night, when the Santa Ynez Valley YMCA held a father-daughter dance, one of the evening\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s party-goers could have easily been excused for being too tired to cut a rug that night.<\/p>\n
While Andy Grider of Los Olivos and his daughter Marley may have had fun at the soir\/e, Grider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already had more fun and excitement than some of his neighbors might see in a lifetime.<\/p>\n
Grider has returned to the Central Coast after having spent most of January in South America as the navigator for Team Dakar USA in the 5,948-mile Dakar Rally, the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longest and most dangerous racing event.<\/p>\n
He navigated while riding in a Hummer H3 driven by NASCAR owner-driver Robby Gordon.<\/p>\n
It was a fruitful trip for Grider, whose wife Annie accompanied him on the trip for the two-week race (Jan. 3-17) through Argentina and Chile. He and Gordon took third place in the car category \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the glamour division of the event \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with a finishing time of 45 hours, five minutes and 50 seconds….\u00c2\u00a0 More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One recent Saturday night, when the Santa Ynez Valley YMCA held a father-daughter dance, one of the evening\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s party-goers could have easily been excused for being too tired to cut a rug that night. While Andy Grider of Los Olivos and his daughter Marley may have had fun at the soir\/e, Grider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already had more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,60,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-off-road-auto","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}