Post by Clipper on Aug 23, 2008 11:47:30 GMT -5
Well, it is race weekend here in Bristol. The jets fly directly over the house at the begining of the race. Last night they scared hell out of me, because I was out in the yard walking the dog when they came over the knobs (small mountains). We are only a couple miles from the speedway. You can sit in our carport and listen to the cars at the track and sometimes even pick up a little of the PA announcements although it is too garbled to understand.
I don't bother going to the track. It's funny that I have traveled to Dover, Pocono, and New Hampshire on several occasions when I lived in Utica, and have no interest in going 2 miles to the Bristol race. LOL.
Go one mile from our house and you find parking lots and campgrounds packed to the max. My next door neighbor has people from Texas every year for the race, and we used to have group from Ohio with a motor home every year, but they wore out their welcome and we don't invite them to stay in the driveway anymore.
If you watch the race on TV, we are just over the small mountains that you see in the aerial shots of the track. We call those mountains the knobs. They run down the middle of town, and we stay on THIS side during race weekend, haha.
It is crazy with over 200,000 people in a town of 44,000 for the race. I will go out later when the race starts, and go to he grocery store for a couple of items that we forgot to get the other day. We travel only during the race itself, when everyone is inside the track and there is no traffic.
Well, I hope you watch the race. It is not as wild as it used to be before the C.O.T. and the new paving, but it is still the best short track racing you will ever watch.
Someone on one of the blogs compared it to "FLYING F-16'S IN A GYMNASIUM!" LOL!
I don't bother going to the track. It's funny that I have traveled to Dover, Pocono, and New Hampshire on several occasions when I lived in Utica, and have no interest in going 2 miles to the Bristol race. LOL.
Go one mile from our house and you find parking lots and campgrounds packed to the max. My next door neighbor has people from Texas every year for the race, and we used to have group from Ohio with a motor home every year, but they wore out their welcome and we don't invite them to stay in the driveway anymore.
If you watch the race on TV, we are just over the small mountains that you see in the aerial shots of the track. We call those mountains the knobs. They run down the middle of town, and we stay on THIS side during race weekend, haha.
It is crazy with over 200,000 people in a town of 44,000 for the race. I will go out later when the race starts, and go to he grocery store for a couple of items that we forgot to get the other day. We travel only during the race itself, when everyone is inside the track and there is no traffic.
Well, I hope you watch the race. It is not as wild as it used to be before the C.O.T. and the new paving, but it is still the best short track racing you will ever watch.
Someone on one of the blogs compared it to "FLYING F-16'S IN A GYMNASIUM!" LOL!