North Carolina, Concord - Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - Charlotte Motor Speedway

We’ve been on the road a month now and we are still having fun.  I know there are some that wonder how you can share a small space with someone day in and day out.  I think the secret is that you not only have to love them, you have to really like them too.  I notice more and more that as we work together to do things like fix breakfast our routine is coordinated – he goes one way, I go the other – whatever, it seems to be working very well.

While we waited on the service tech to come out and assess what needed to be done to the air conditioner unit that isn’t working (we have two others that are working just fine), I got busy and did some cleaning inside the coach.  I even made cornbread from scratch – only because I didn’t have a Jiffy mix handy.

This evening we walked over to the Charlotte Motor Speedway to watch the bandollero (not sure on the spelling) cars race in round 6 of the Summer Shootout.  $7.00 per adult for a night of racing and fireworks was a good deal.

The Speedway is beautiful.  The seats are comfortable, the temperature was into the low 80’s with a slight breeze.  The sun was going down behind us so it wasn’t shining in our eyes.  A perfect night.  The races were fun and there were fireworks to look forward to.  We were sure the rains were going south of us this evening.

And then it happened – RAIN, thunder and lots of lightning.  About halfway through the races, the grandstands had to be cleared and everyone had to go under the grandstands for shelter.

The numerous lightning strikes were to be the only fireworks we would see.  Remember, we walked?  Although the Speedway is within walking distance from where we are parked, it still takes about 20 minutes.  We bought a funnel cake (along with about a hundred other people at the same stand) and stood around for a while watching the impressive lightning.  We looked at WeatherBug and determined that there were two pretty active cells that would be coming right through where we were at.  Once the lightning let up we decided to head back home before the next round started up.