A short trip but a long day!

Where are we today ?

Daytona Speedway

        The plan today was to be on the road at 8 am and be at Daytona Speedway shortly after 10 o'clock for an early checkin. Left Walkabout Campground on time , and got slowed down in Jacksonville Florida for about 10 minutes, not too bad so far.

Today's journey,132miles  (212kms)

great travelling day

Slowed down for a bit with a fender bender

        After Jacksonville a rest area shortly after 10 am, Walkabout stretch and water the dog. Nice looking rig here with a huge trailer too!

        Now ready to hit the road and noticed Rob and Pat have a flat tire on their trailer. OOppss. gonna put on the spare.

only flat on the bottom eh?

all fixed and on the road again

        Well about 20 minutes later tire changed and we are on the road again. Sounds good eh? But then another 10  minutes down the road a trucker is blowing his horn at them! Pull over and guess what another flat tire! Same side other tire.

        Now we are in a predicanment, two flat tires and only one spare. Hmmph !!! Well they got on the phone and after an hour finally found a shop that could bring out 2 new tires and install on the  side of I-95 just south of exit 323. By the time they arrived it was 1 o'clock and in short order the tires were changed and installed (less than 30 minutes).

another flat

waiting by the side of the road

we are being patient

finally they arrived with two new tires

        Less than two 30 minutes, tires changed and installed and we are ready to hit the road again.

        But now its 1:30pm and we had a morning check in for the Daytona Rally. No problem got there at 2:30 and all was well. We had an early check in anyway, Rally officially starts on friday.

Gate 40

that be us

We had a tiny spot to park, check the map for our location

        Inside the track and around we drove until we were guided to our spots.

the pits

on the track

hey its Halloween and everybody is having fun

HUGE rig!

        Got squeezed into out tiny spot and hopped on the trolley to find registration. There we spotted a few antique type rvs.

the original rv

registration

Trolley back to camp

we are home

        Finally are set up, relax in our tiny spot and enjoy a couple beverages, re hash the day and our fun  (expensive for Rob and Pat with a service call and two new tires). But hey we are alive and well, no damage to their rig. The sun is shining and we are in Florida, think we are doing pretty well.

race track behind us

New rigs on the race track coming for the show

Lady girl enjoying some attention from Suzie

        Now time for supper, fire up pour oven whip up a chicken pot pie and small lettuce salad , now all is good.

yep its tasty

        Put our feet up and guess what its Halloween, Trick or treaters knocking on the door. Never would have known except for Lady Girl being there, a couple of wild characters looking for treats.

         They got their treats and then before we know it's time to call it a night.

         Like I said it was a short drive but a long day, especially after 4 hours sitting on the side of the intertstate. But we sure had a great time, another experience for the memory banks. Looking forward to more fun stuff tomorrow.

       Glad you could drop by and experience a day of fulltime rving. Never know whats gonna happen next. 

        Have great day tomorrow I just know we will!

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