Saturday, April 25, 2009

Two Weeks

I'll back up to the weekend of April 15 through 20. I know, weekends aren't supposed to be 6 days long but ours sometimes are. This is one of the few benefits of being both older and retired. Our Motor Home club had scheduled a rally at Fortress Monroe (in Hampton, Va on the Chesapeake Bay) for Friday through Sunday. We decided to leave a couple of days early for a visit with Carolyn's parents in Portsmouth and to try out a "new to us" campground operated by the City of Hampton. It was a delightful surprise.


Nicely manicured and the price is right! We spent Wednesday night then on to Fort Monroe for an early arrival on Thursday. Ten other couples arrived a day early too so the party got started one day ahead of schedule.






We enjoyed a great spot with all the coaches lined up along the seawall. For anyone interested in knowing more about our motor home club, here's a link to the clubs web site: http://www.fmcadogwood.blogspot.com/ .



By the time the weekend was over we were too tired to drive home so we decided to stay over another night in the Hampton campground. We arrived home Monday afternoon just in time to start getting ready for another long weekend.


We departed home early Thursday. Destination: Virginia International Raceway about 20 miles East of Danville Virginia. VIR is one of the oldest road race courses in the country and this weekend was the sight of the Bosch Engineering 250 mile Rolex Series race. This is exciting high $$ professional racing. We camped in the infield overlooking the track. A couple of photos follow for those that aren't familiar with this type of racing.



That's Shamu on the hill above the track.




The red Gainsco car was the ultimate winner of the 250 mile race on Saturday afternoon. There were lots of other races during the weekend of racing including the Mazda and BMW series open wheel racing, VW TDI series and others. There was wall to wall activity starting early morning and ending late afternoon. VIR is a neat venu with open spectator acces to the padoc and garages. This makes for good fun for car nuts like me.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Back Home in Virginia

Not much happening. Arrived home in Virginia March 20. Now all were doing is setting around watching the grass grow.