We went home after the Texas race for about 2 1/2 days and then took off driving for the Phoenix race, the next weekend. It was really nice weather the whole time, we parked in Marathon's parking area, about 500 yards from the gate....so it was really handy.The seats were great, so I got some good pictures of the pit stops. Senator John McCain was the Grand Marshall and he rode around the track in the 09 car before the race. There was a really nice "fly-over" and I had to take a picture of all the crazy people who had tents, etc. and set up camp on the mountain outside turns 3 and 4 to watch the race!
After the race....on Monday.... we had some workto do, so we sat at the track, on the internet, until about 2, then went and had lunch with my old college buddy, then went to our friend Bob's place in Apache Junction. It was reaaly a nice "compound" ha!ha! It had lemon, orange and grapefruit trees! (I loaded up) and a huge wall around 2 lots. It is set up for 8 buses to come visit! Lots of very interesting looking cactus, bouganvilla flowers and even a palo verde plant!
We will be headed to El Paso for a few days to see my brother and pick up my Lady Bushmaster, that was jamming and we had our friend Cheater fix it.( it was a screw that was too long, installed from the manufacturer, that was inhibiting the exhaust, so it wouldn't move the bolt correctly) I know you needed to know that!