Monthly Archives: July 2007


Visiting the Biltmore Estate

While in North Carolina we manage to go a little further west to visit the historic Biltmore Estate. Built by George Vanderbilt from 1889 to 1895, the house is an amazing marvel. You could spend several days touring the entire estate. We only had one day and so we had […]


Visiting Race Shops – day 2

Day 2, we left the Greensboro area and headed toward Charlotte where we planned to watch a Legends race at Charlotte Motor Speedway that night. Our first stop was Joe Gibbs Racing. The receptionist here was one of the nicest people we met. We stood there chatting with her for quite […]


Visiting Race Shops – day 1

Since Ray is at camp we decided to stay in the area and visit race shops. I can’t get but so far away from him, so staying in North Carolina was the easiest thing to do. On Monday, our first day on our own, we started out in the area […]


Victory Junction Gang Camp

Victory Junction Gang Camp Dropped Ray off yesterday at the Victory Junction Gang Camp.  What an amazing place.   Took this picture at the entrance. Quite honestly, their website doesn’t do justice to the facility.  The entire design concept is just incredible.  It’s nothing like “camp” the way I knew it […]


Driving West

Well, we decided to drive to the IDF Patient and Family Conference in St. Louis. It was a two day trip each way. We didn’t have time for a lot of sight seeing, but we did do a little along the way. One stop was to see the New River […]