The day started off with Mary Ann and Shirleen taking the long walk around the gated community. Steve and I got ready for the day. We had decided to eat at the Hacienda Restaurant for a breakfast buffet. It had delicious omelets and sliced ham. The counter had fresh fruit, bacon strips; potatoes with fried onions – good for buffet ones, sausages, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, eggs Benedict – also good as I sampled three of them. Steve a beer, I a Bloody Mary. The food was a good send off for the miles we were to travel as we left at 12:30 for south of Atlanta. It was a nice send-off and we decided to meet early when they come back home.
Highway was busy but not bad. We noticed a sign that indicated we might have trouble at exit 218 because of the NASCAR race at that turn off but called the Atlanta Speedway. As we approached the area the cars were backed up to exit 212, here we looked at the GPS and decided to go parallel to I75. We went north trough the city and back west to the turn-off. Here is where we headed through parking lots to a Holiday Inn Express. I asked the price, $189 because of NASCAR, for a senior $165, she ask if I had been in the service, yes, 7 years. She said $109, took it as we did not want to buck the traffic.
A light lunch was in order as we stuffed ourselves at noon. We stopped at a Ruby Tuesday and had a glass of wine each with a delicious Jumbo Crab Cake accompanied by a nice spicy rémoulade sauce. As we headed back across the freeway Shirleen said lets go out to the racetrack. It was eight miles out from the hotel and car upon car and travel trailer headed towards us when we went out. It was five miles of vehicles and then light traffic. We made it to the racetrack, wow, what an immense track, lit up looking like a space ship landing on earth. We drove to the end and parked at the entrance, streaming with vehicles. To the right were many campfires burning. Looked like a gypsy camp, suspect they stay there all night. We headed back, Shirleen said stay right and the traffic looked quieter in that lane as we went out. She was right we first hit traffic at mile 1.6 from the hotel. Jerry
Highway was busy but not bad. We noticed a sign that indicated we might have trouble at exit 218 because of the NASCAR race at that turn off but called the Atlanta Speedway. As we approached the area the cars were backed up to exit 212, here we looked at the GPS and decided to go parallel to I75. We went north trough the city and back west to the turn-off. Here is where we headed through parking lots to a Holiday Inn Express. I asked the price, $189 because of NASCAR, for a senior $165, she ask if I had been in the service, yes, 7 years. She said $109, took it as we did not want to buck the traffic.
A light lunch was in order as we stuffed ourselves at noon. We stopped at a Ruby Tuesday and had a glass of wine each with a delicious Jumbo Crab Cake accompanied by a nice spicy rémoulade sauce. As we headed back across the freeway Shirleen said lets go out to the racetrack. It was eight miles out from the hotel and car upon car and travel trailer headed towards us when we went out. It was five miles of vehicles and then light traffic. We made it to the racetrack, wow, what an immense track, lit up looking like a space ship landing on earth. We drove to the end and parked at the entrance, streaming with vehicles. To the right were many campfires burning. Looked like a gypsy camp, suspect they stay there all night. We headed back, Shirleen said stay right and the traffic looked quieter in that lane as we went out. She was right we first hit traffic at mile 1.6 from the hotel. Jerry
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