Today, we arrived at New Castle Raceway Park in New Castle, Indiana. So far, it has been the longest trip EVER! We left for New Castle on Wednesday, August 8th, in the late afternoon. We took the Bus with an empty trailer to Cokato to pick up all of the karting gear we would need for our road trip. By the time we transferred all of the "stuff" from the track trailer to the one we are bringing with us it was 10:00 in the evening....and we still needed to get fuel. Do you know that most small-town diesel stations close at 10? We didn't....so we ended up going a little bit out of our way to get fuel.....like only a mile from our house!
Anyway, we hit the road and Viguen drove about 150 miles when we needed to stop because he had a conference call the following morning and needed to get some sleep.
Thursday morning's conference call lasted over 2 hours! The Bus (did I mention that we brought the dogs with us? Maggie is NOT a fan of traveling in the Bus yet...hoping that changes SOON.) and all of its occupants finally left the rest stop at around noon only to stop at 3:00 for another conference call. This time we stopped at Culver's in Illinois somewhere and Zander and I enjoyed some Culver's delicacies with frozen custard while Viguen worked. Finally hit the road again around 4:30. Made it to New Castle's Walmart at midnight Eastern time.
This morning, we dodged a few raindrops and made our way down narrow, winding, farm roads to a racetrack tucked within a corn field behind a truck stop. It amazes me where these go-kart racers dreams are hidden. (I almost said "gems" but didn't want you to get the wrong idea.)
We all unloaded the trailer and my boys hit the track. The track and its 17 turns takes a little bit to learn but both boys really enjoyed racing. It was neat at dinner time to hear them rehash the day and try to figure out where "we" could pick up more speed and where the balance of the kart was upset and what turns "we" needed to turn late and which ones "we" needed to hit the apex a little better.
My highlight of the day: Me sipping wine, Viguen working on the karts, Alexander in a huge open field throwing tennis balls to Maggie and Senna, a cool breeze blowing, sun shining....LIFE IS GOOD!
Here's a fuzzy picture of the track map.....blessings to you and yours!
