Way too hot

We have pretty much made the decision not to come to the California race in September anymore. Even though we are having a good time, it is way too hot. It has been in the 3 digits everyday. We are spending a lot of time inside the motorhome with the generator running and the air conditioners running. This is no way to spend time at the NASCAR race in the infield. We just can’t do much infield cruising to checkout the crazies without overheating. There are no races until Saturday so we have been spending Thursday and Friday sweating (literally) it out until the races start. One good thing, the races are night races so it should drop down to a nice cool 90 something for the races.

Here are a few ways people are cooling off here in the infield.


We got lucky, with the generosity of our friends from Riverside, and got to see the Busch series race on Saturday in a Hospitality Suit. It was air conditioned and included all the food and drink you could consume. We were also treated to an appearance from NASCAR driver and team owner Michael Waltrip.

He spent about an hour in the Sky Box with us but you could tell he was really itching to get back down to his Pit Box and give some instructions to his driver. We saw a bad wreck during the race that even Michael said was the worst he has ever seen.

It stopped the race for 20 minutes while they got all the drivers involved out of their cars and the mess cleaned up. They even had to bring out a welder and repair a portion of the wall. Everyone came out OK with the exception of a dislocated shoulder of the driver in the #88 car.

Fortunately the race on Sunday was a night race so it cooled to a tolerable 90 degrees. We got to see the race from the top of our daughter’s motorhome. Their motorhome is right up against the fence on turn 2 so we get a real up close view of the race from there.

To add a good capper to the weekend, Susan’s favorite driver won the race. She was real happy to see that.