Bristol Speedway (08/19)

We only had a couple of hundred miles to drive today, so it was an easy drive for the most part, of course I wasn't driving, Joe may have felt different.  I know we were very excited to get here.  Bristol Speedway is in the middle of pretty much no where.  Half way between Johnson City and Bristol.  It is all rolling hills.  We are staying at the All-American Campground.  It is so hilly I am not sure how we will be able to park.  But once we got into the campground we saw they have rows of leveled off areas for RV's with water and electric.  We had a heck of a time parking, we have to back into the space with no way to pull forward to straighten the truck out.  After about 10 attempts we finally were in fairly straight and could unhook without to much trouble.  Our neighbors were a big help in guiding us.

Our first look at Bristol from where we are parked!

We sat out side for a while and just took it all in, then we walked over to the track to see if the souvenir booths were open yet, they are not.  I guess everything starts tomorrow starting with the Truck race.  We also discovered that the modifieds will be racing too.  We both have come to really like watching the modifieds.  Back at the fifth wheel we cook ribs for dinner along with some potato salad and watch a movie.  Our neighbors invite us over for drinks and games.  We were told to bring dollar bills.  So about 8 we went over and met everyone and signed their bar table.  Anyone that comes over has to sigh this table.  Now it is time for the games.  Well just one game, it is called Left, Right and center.  Everyone has to start with $3.  There are three dice, one side with an L, one side with an R and onside with a C and the last side with a black dot.  You roll three dice and you do what they say.  If you roll 3 dots you don't lose any money and everyone has to take a drink.  If you roll a L, R or C you have to give the person to your left or right a $1 and if you have a C you put a dollar in the middle of the table.  As you lose money you roll less dice, and at the end the person with money left gets the pot in the middle.  Joe won once, about $20.  It was a very fun evening and about 11 pm we headed back to our place happy but tired.  Tomorrow starts all the racing so Joe is really pumped.  I don't plan on going to practices or qualifying but will go to the big truck and modified race tonight.