![]() Now I was headed up to the Quad Cities to get positioned for tomorrow’s racing. Then I took the opportunity to return to my all-time favorite track in time to catch their exciting features. I had seen a track that no trackchaser had ever visited before, the Ealyville Speedway. By 9:54 the racing was finished at the Peoria Speedway. However, Peoria starts their races early because of a city imposed curfew. the “green stuff” was just about ready to move over the Peoria Speedway. That was despite some of the worst weather radar I had seen flying through this area in the morning. It didn’t even look as if it had rained here. ![]() However, if I had too I probably would.īy the time I entered Mechanicsburg, Illinois, home to the Ealyville Speedway, the cloudy and overcast day had turned to blue skies. I have never put up my car title in order to get a loan. Next door was a “Cash loans on car titles” store. O.K., it wasn’t the best Mexican food….but then I am from San Clemente, California which has more good and great Mexican restaurants than any place north of the border I have ever seen. Who would have thought I could be driving along, have a graving for Mexican food, then ask an electronic device what was the best Mexican place nearby and then have another electronic device tell me how to get there! Heck, when I was a boy I had never ever TRIED Mexican food. I checked Yelp! They recommended a semi-fast food Mexican eatery called “El Burrito Loco”.Īs a young boy I could never have imagined today’s tech world. I don’t get many of those!Īs I powered through Bourbonnais, Illinois (southwest of Chicago) I had a hankering for Mexican food. I received an emergency “flash flood” warning on my iPhone. The rains had been heavy in Illinois this morning. That’s why I require a rental car with satellite radio. I definitely drive many more hours than I sit in a grandstand watching races. In some ways trackchasing is more about driving than watching races. I sat back in my National Car Rental Hyundai Sonata and munched on kettle corn from last night’s Michigan county fair. Google Maps told me it would take a bit less than six hours without stops. The driving distance from my hotel this morning (Lansing, MI) to Mechanicsburg, Illinois would be 388 miles. I was facing a bit of a drive on today’s trip. Trackchasing can be more about driving than watching races. From the looks of things I had dodged a bullet with the weather. By noon it had headed off toward Indianapolis. This morning a huge thunderstorm roared through the area. The weather was going to be hot and humid as it often is during July in the Midwest. Today was the sixth day of my 42-day trackchasing trip.įrom Michigan I was off to central Illinois near where I was born and raised. I woke up this morning at home in Lansing, Michigan. When I last left Illinois as a boy it was hot and humid in July….it still is.
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