Miss Adventure
  • Home
  • The Past
    • WayBack Machine
    • The First Year 2011
    • MissAdventure 2012
    • Adventures 2013
    • The Journey 2014
    • FullTimers 2015
  • The Present
    • Living The Dream 2016
  • Upgrades & Fixes

Good Sam Rally - Daytona International Speedway

11/1/2012

 
Wow! What a fun trip! Ellen and I flew down on JetBlue, picked up the motorhome and headed up I-4 to Daytona International Speedway for a weekend of fun.

Driving through the tunnel on Thursday afternoon into the speedway infield was cool. We were suddenly in a sea of motorhomes, fifth wheels, and a few trailers. The entry and parking was well organized but the registration area could use some work causing some long lines. We wandered around the vintage campers until dark and went back to the camper for the night.

I have a plan for Friday morning. I am going to get up early and sneak out onto the track and take a lap on my bicycle. I get out all my bike gear and head for the track... to my delight the track is open to walk on and ride a bicycle on. I did about 4 laps and we took a bunch of pictures at the start/finish line. I tried to ride the upper groove and found that the bank is so steep that my upper pedal hit the ground and I couldn’t pedal around the turn. One note, I did time one of my laps at 9 minutes 3.2 seconds. Dale Earnhart JR. completes the lap in 0 minutes 45.5 seconds. I’ll keep trying.

We spend Friday and Saturday wandering through all the displays of new and used motorhomes, camping equipment, and even took in several informative seminars. Kenny Rogers was live on the stage on Friday night but the real hit was Reba, live on stage on Saturday, the concert is awesome and we had great seats right on top of the Sprint Cup Pit Garages.

We bought a Surge Protector, a part for our toad brake, and got our motorhome weighed by RVSEF while at The Rally.

We headed to Orlando around noon on Sunday and stayed at Bill Frederick Park, an Orlando City Park with a small campground right around the corner from Universal Studios. It was a great park that gets very little camping use. We will definitely stay here again.

            Time to head home, our next trip is the big “Superbowl Trip”. See you then.

    2012 Travel Adventures

    The Adventure continues as we upgrade to a large diesel Motorhome and a Mini Cooper too!

    Categories

    All
    Bringing Miss Adventure Home
    Connecticut Seashore
    Daytona - Good Sam Rally
    Disney - Fort Wilderness
    Fort Myers Beach
    Heading Back To Florida
    Hello Miss Adventure
    Lazy Days - Tampa
    Miss Adventure Gets Her Name
    Mohegan Sun... Again
    Mohegan Sun Casino
    Nickerson Park - Cape Cod
    Orlando Sign Show
    Water Ski Regionals

    Archives

    December 2012
    November 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    June 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly