Bailey

After a great sleep we leave at 720; 57,861 km

Today’s discovery?  Where the fog light on/off switch is.  Allan is happy he got to use it, fog was heavier than the photo depicts. Yes we’re on the correct route, roads narrow!

Cincinnati

Infinitis on display                                      

                                                               Getting closer 🙂

440 – Almost there only another 11 minutes. 

We’re here and set up.

Tomorrow a day of rest 🙂

Happy/Sad day! 

Happy because we get to drive Bailey,

Sad because we are bringing her to Columbus, GA. 

          This trip’s schedule

Why @VisitColumbusGA & Coachcraft by MacDonald as the final destination?  Time for Bailey’s annual checkup!   Allan searched for a place that could service all of Bailey’s needs.   Engine, Generator, Aqua Hot, filters.  Coachcraft has good reviews so fingers crossed. 

 Allan must work for a few hours; the plan is to leave 1030ish. 

We end up leaving home at 130.  

Head to the park to pick up Bailey; leave the park at 238; km 57.419, to go  back home to drop the car off.  Finally on the road at 320 singing “On the road again, just so happy to be on the road again!”

We will not make the scheduled Walmart, not enough time and specifically too many deers at night.  We see some sleeping on the road side.  (Not pictured)

We’re on the section of highway that has increased the speed limit to 110 km We stop at Love’s for fuel and find the next Walmart.  It’s  a bit off the highway, we quickly determine we are heading to Lapeer’s Walmart.  This is the very first Walmart we stayed at during our first ever Bailey trip last year!! 

Arrive at 720; km 57,861. 

Pick up some staples at Walmart.  Wine & creamy coleslaw to have with our imported Costco’s delicious rotisserie chicken.

 

Weather isn’t looking very good, no sun, super overcast, sprinkling.  See the rain on the windows 🙁

Rain stops :)We’re off  to  check  view  the  track!Oh those skies!

Qualification is rain cancelled.The skies do clear up and we’re good.Race is to begin at 730p.  We’re all in the stands but whoops the track lighting is not working.  They assure us they are frantically working on it.  FINALLY, a long hour later the lights come on.  Now

Was a fun, exciting lots of passing race!

Now a fire with the other neighbours, here from Sarnia.

Bill and Wally

Another racing season over!

We leave Sutton 10ish and head to  Jukasa Motor Speedway in Hagerville for the NASCAR Pinty season finale.  This is a very short oval so should be an exciting race. We were at the season’s opener in Canadian Tire Motorsports Park and are happy to be here now.  

We have our ETR transponder now so the drive should be quicker and less traffic.

We’ve never been to Jukasa before so relay on our GPS.  Hum, which GPS to follow?

We follow Google Maps and make it!  This  is  widest  gate  we’ve  been  through. And we’re in  Our street And set up, find the Caesar and beer 🙂Tonight’s show is Larry Berrio.  We are not country & western fans but head out anyways.  It ended up being a hoot!   Dancing galore.

Then the neighbour’s fire.​

Sky has been dreary all day and the forecast for tomorrow is not much better. Fingers crossed!

Afternoon gathering at Charlene & Rod’s.  Games and merriment 🙂

Kelvin introduces a game called “Washer Toss” that he made earlier in the week.

The cows are coming home…

                Best buds!

Fun time even though Charlene did not sing.  Next gathering karaoke for sure!

 

Friday night begins with what else?  A campfire… Allan has a new poker a Margaret generously donated 🙂

Thank you Irma & Tom for taking us back to Los Algodones!  The above hoodie is officially Allan’s favourite.

Wish I’d remember to take photos of the folks who join us for the campfire.

Saturday afternoon:  Karaoke at next door neighbours Charlene & Rod’s

My favourite! Charlene singing “Harper Valley PTA”  click Harper   

Sunday:  Off to get our 10k steps, heading to Jackson’s Point. Some of the sights.​

Here’s what’s coming

Finally, I take some photos around the fire. Heather, likely telling us where to go, her Mom, Margaret (Allan’s poker donor).  Poor Kelvin got cut off 🙁 I got to get better at this.

Hummm,  what’s going on with these slides?  Think a scrap guy will be pleased to obtain this trailer.

Whoops!

A walk around the park, Elmgrove

Cap the evening with

Good morning! We leave at 805a.  Estimated drive time 6h.  It will be much longer especially with Toronto traffic.

Definitely on the correct highway.

Exciting times!  This will be the first time, while fueling, we are getting Bailey’s tire pressures checked.  Stop at 1020a. Dude says it takes 5-6 minutes – not enough time to brew another pot of coffee.

Josh, our tech hard at work

Josh points out we are missing a hub.  It was there when Allan did his circle check.  Hope it didn’t cause chaos when it flew off.

Fast forward to September 07:  $284.70 and a drive to Barrie to pick up the parts, Allan istalled the hub.Bailey’s report card!  Some tire pressures did require attention.   5-6 minutes ended up taking 40 minutes.  We can’t figure out how they do this service and only charge $5.00.

Approaching Canada using the Sarnia crossing.

Yahoo – almost no wait.

Gotta to love Toronto traffic, NOT.  So close yet so far from home.

After much more traffic we arrive back in Sutton at 435p.  Bailey is back in her stop for a rest.  Look at Allan go!!  Mileage: Start 53,442 End 57,215  Trip total:  3,773km

Next trip September 27 – 29, 2019 NASCAR Pinty’s Series Finale – Pinty’s Fall Brawl.  Should be fun, we saw the first race of the season at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park now the finale.

We’d like to explore nearby town, Marshall so head to the office to ask about Ubers.  The skies look angry but we are optimistic.  The lady in the office declares “It will rain” She doesn’t want us to get stuck in Marshall with no cover.  We heed her advise and decide to instead explore the park.

Tires as decoration?                                                          Farmer Mary-Ann

Oh look a slide!

Rain forecasted all day. We decide to not unpack the Traeger.  We purchase a can of cooked turkey so if it continues raining we’ll cook indoors.

Here comes the rain

What do you do when it rains most of the day?​

Still rainingIndoor cooking for sure.

Whoops, we do not have a can opener. Improvise!

Allan using his culinary skills to create a turkey stir fry.

Delicious!  (still raining)

Travel home day tomorrow.

Our day starts off with a rainbow, must be a good signWe leave the track at 840a, km 55,678.

Destination is Camp Turkeyville in Marsall, MI. Google maps shows it as a 6-1/2h drive. It always takes longer, we’ll see our end time.

We stop at a rest stop to, you know, rest.  Leave it to us to pick one that requires winding roads to get to.  We thought it was right next to the highway as most are.

The art that greets at the rest area.

on the correct road  

What’s going on??  We don’t know either but lots of flashing lights nearly make us miss going through the express lane.

Great a Sunday afternoon traffic jam in Lansing IL 🙁  Hit it jam at 125p finally clearer sailing at 150p

One more rest stop.  Really is a long load.

Happy people live here?Arrive in Turkeyville, MI at 431p. Imagine turkeys in Turkeyville!

Set up complete, firewood purchased.

 

 

 

 

 

Dinner will be at Cornwell’s “Home of the Best Turkey Sandwich”  Is it a little disturbing there are live turkeys and the best sandwich?

Enjoying our dinners.

Allan starts the fire earlier as rain is coming.

Rest day tomorrow, hope it doesn’t rain.

Turns out this schedule is just a suggestion; little started when stated.

Open the door to a    Visitor

Day begins with the helicopter arriving. Helicopter

K&N Nascar up next but first a bevvy

Lined up Let’s go racing

With a little help from my friendsWrong direction!

 

 

Opening ceremonies includes the Corvettes taking the drivers around the track after intros. After the flag ceremony the announcer asked all present & past military remain standing to be recognized.  Wish us Canadians would honour our military more.

And we’re racing!And  we’re goofy excited!        Us Vrooom

Not happy with the race results.  Takuma Sato @TakumaSatoRacer should have been suspended from this race after he caused the lap one  crash in @poconoraceway last week.

At least we went from this to this

I’m  officially this year’s With 2 races remaining, Allan’s driver @AlexanderRossi is 3rd with 517 points; @FRosenqvist  is 10th with 324 points.  Even with double points for the last race it is mathematically impossible for me to win.

Being a good sport, I conceited today.

Travel day tomorrow.  Heading home.