March25 and 26

March 25

We drove east through a Mennonite community with nice and tidy looking farmland, beautiful drive. Our first stop was a sobering one at the Andersonville National Historic site. The impenetrable stockade at Andersonville was probably the most infamous prisoner of war camp during the Civil War. It was open from Feb. 1864 until May 1865 when the war was essentially over. During that time more than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here in deplorable conditions. 13,000 died from disease, dysentery, and lack of nutrition. There simply was not food available to feed prisoners. Even the Confederate soldiers didn’t have enough to eat. The doctors didn’t know about bacteria at that time. If you went into the hospital area, you probably did not live through the experience. The sanitary conditions were described to us on our tour. It’s amazing that more did not die. The stream for their drinking water was blocked with sewage. Legend says that after much prayer, lightning struck the ground and a spring shot up with fresh water. Whether lightning struck or not a spring with fresh water did appear and saved thousands of lives. The ranger led tour was very interesting but very sobering also. A quote from a prisoner’s diary said”…it takes 7 of its occupants to make a shadow.“ The bodies were laid out in the cemetery shoulder to shoulder to save space. In July and August of 1865, Clara Barton came here with a detachment of laborers and former prisoners to identify and mark each of the graves to the best of their knowledge. A former prisoner, Atwater, was in charge of the record keeping and made his private list so he could do his best to notify the families. Between his list and the Confederate records all but 450 were identified. Today the wooden markers have been replaced with granite markers. The cemetery is an active military cemetery.

Andersonville Prisoner of War Camp
Reconstruction of the shelters used by 45,000 Union Soldiers

Andersonville National Cemetery -
13,000 Grave Sites of Union soldiers.

Our next stop was much more up beat. We drove out to Plains to see Jimmy Carter’s boyhood farm. We were in for a treat. We were met by a ranger who gave us the lay of the land. As we walked around the property there were buttons to push and Jimmy Carter’s voice told us stories and gave us information about his growing up here. He was a young boy during the depression. The family had plenty of food but not much extra. There were always chores for him and his sisters and brother but lots of play in the mix. They had a tennis court on the swept red dirt where he would play against his father. They also had a small country store on the road where local people could buy things on credit. His mother encouraged the children to read, even bringing their books to the breakfast table. His best boyhood friends were the African American children that lived on the farm. We heard so many great stories. The ranger said he comes out to the farm often. The other day he rode his bike out here followed by his Secret Service agents! I guess it’s not an unusual occurrence. He is riding one of those 3 wheeled bikes now that he is 87. He went into the big town of Plains, 700 people, for school. He went onto college and then the Naval Academy and a Navy career. When his father died in 1953, he left the Navy and they came back to Plains to run the family business. He began his political career right here. We stood around eating freshly boiled peanuts talking with the ranger before we headed for town.

The other buildings we visited were the school he and Rosalynn had both attended and the small railroad depot that became his campaign headquarters. Between the house, the museum and the campaign headquarters we really got an idea of how his upbringing, school experiences, small town, church and neighbors helped to make him the decent man he is. I think he is one of the only Presidents with high morals who has also lived by those morals. He has probably received more acclaim for things he has accomplished since his Presidency than he has for his years in office. He has a long list of accomplishments in his years of service. He and Rosalynn are still living in the home they built in Plains in 1961. He has a wood working shop where he has made a lot of their furniture. The garage was made into his office when he returned from his years in the White House. It is a ranch style unpretentious home that sits on lovely grounds and can’t be seen from the road giving them privacy. We went to Dylan’s restaurant for lunch, the only one we saw in town. We walked up to the counter and they filled our plates with a fried chicken lunch. Dylan, a 7 year old little boy, told us that Jimmy Carter comes here for lunch on Sundays but he was out of town. Too bad, it would have been great to have him walk in! We left with a greater understanding of our 39^th President.

Jimmy Carter's Family Farm
Note the tennis court.

Country Store at the Farm

Jimmy Carter's Bedroom as a Boy

Train Depot in Plains that Became His Campaign Headquarters

March 26

Diving day today - we headed up to Washington DC stopping for the night in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

March 24 - Macon, GA

March 24

We are still quite the talk! It just blows their minds to think that we are all the way from Washington and pulling the Manor with a Rave4! The Open House was fun. Not too many took part but we did and we got some new ideas in talking to some of the other TM owners. We are getting some of the lingo: TM = TrailManor, SOB = some other brand of trailer.

Macon was our destination today. This is one of the cities that did not get burned in the Civil War. The downtown is definitely thriving but some of the buildings need a lot of loving care which means $ and work. This is the last weekend of the Cherry Blossom Festival and the downtown was blocked off to traffic with the festival and entertainment stages. We didn’t have a lot of time so we drove some of the neighboring streets with some of the lovely old homes. Mercer College and two of the churches stand out from quite a distance.

Chris and I took the Hay House tour. The home is known as “The Palace of the South.” and is beautiful. Mr. Jackston, who married at 41, and his young new wife enjoyed a three year European tour for their honeymoon. They had in mind the home they would build on their return and collected many fine art pieces plus studied Italian renaissance architecture. They came home and built a 24 room Italian Renaissance mansion. The building was begun in 1855 with the interior finally finished after the Civil War. Our tour guide was darling and adored the home. She had the opportunity to study Italian Renaissance architecture in Italy a couple of years ago. The restoration will be ongoing for years but the exterior and the second or main floor have been completed. They have left the exterior with the brick showing. Originally it was all plastered for the Italian look. Jackston incorporated many interesting innovations. A wind tunnel brings in cool air for the home through panels in the doors that are closed at night and opened during the day. A wine cellar is below the marble porch. The beautiful marble porch has both Italian marble and local black granite. In the center of the floor design is quartz which gives light below to the wine cellar. The home has curved pocket doors that still open easily. The linen closet is in a secret room behind a niche between the floors on the stair landing. It was the perfect place but design wise he didn’t want a door there. He had indoor plumbing with hot and cold running water in three bathrooms! The large entry hall is done with ornate plasterwork and trumpe l’oeil with the walls done in beautiful faux marble. It cost more to do the faux painting of the marble and wood than it would have to import marble from Italy but trumpe l’oeil was the “in” thing. Luckily they had covered it with shellac to protect it. It had been painted over a couple of times through the years but they could bring it back with all it’s beauty during the restoration. The largest room was the art gallery. They needed space to show their art they had collected on their honeymoon. They commissioned a copy of a sculpture they fell in love with and set it on a pedestal. When they were entertaining, they had one of the servants stand and rotate the pedestal during the entire party. All of the rooms were beautiful. The restoration of the dining room had just been completed in 2010, and our guide was absolutely in love with the room.

The upstairs is slated for restoration work to begin. There were 6 stories including the copula. They were setting up for a wedding when we were on our tour. They were using the entire bottom floor with the ballroom, dining room, and the largest room, the art gallery. What an absolutely lovely place to be married! The bride gets to get dressed in the daughter’s bedroom upstairs. One of Jackson’s daughters raised her family in the home. It was eventually sold to the Hay family. They donated the home to the Macon Historical Society.

Hay House in Macon
No photography allowed inside.

We came back in time for the Pot Luck with the Trailblazers, the TrailManor Club. It was fun to get together. Everyone is friendly and interesting. Of course we ate too much! There are about 50 people with 25 Manors. It’s really fun to see them all lined up. We finished up the evening with another campfire.

The TrailManor Pot Luck!

Check out the shirts!

25 TrailManors All in One Place

March 21 and 22

The trees are in full bloom.
So are my allergies!

Stone Mountain Park

March 22

We have been camping at Stone Mountain and finally took the sky tram up to the top. Lucky us; some fellow travelers gave us some a days pass for the three of us. What a great view of the stone relief carving on the way up. You could almost reach out and touch it. Stone Mountain is this largest granite rock in the world! After going to the top, we went to the museum with displays on the making of the relief and also on how the Civil War affected the community here. Way back in 1909, Helen Plane had the idea for a memorial to General Lee and the Confederacy. Borglum, the same person who did Rushmore, planned the first version of the carving in 1915 but didn’t get going until 1923. They unveiled Lee’s head in 1924 with a breakfast served high up on scaffolding to some of the backers. I guess he had quite a temper and left the project in a huff. His sculpting of Lee was actually blown off the side of the mountain with a whole new plan taking shape. With new plans and after many sculptors, Walker Hancock finished the project and it was dedicated in 1970. On the path to the base there are small monuments for each state that left the Union in 1861. The Confederate flag is flown here. The Sculpture measures 90’ by 190’. The carved area covers three acres. A person can actually stand in General Lee’s horse’s mouth! Stone Mountain Park is really a tourist attraction with a water park, boats to rent, a golf course and more. The bike and jogging trail that goes around the mountain is heavily used. Lots to do. Right now the park is pretty empty but weekends and summers it must be packed. We had a yummy steak dinner tonight and enjoyed the Kilburg wine.

Stone Mountain Tram

Stone Mountain Carving

This shows the scale of the carving.
This is the actual size of the horse's mouth.

Thanks for the Kilburg wiine Dick!

March 23

We made it to the TrailManor Rally this afternoon down south of Macon. It seems so funny to see so many TrailManors all together! In all of our camping we have only seen three other TrailManors with a couple of sighting on the highway. Tonight we are all going out to dinner at a Mennonite cafeteria that is supposed to be really good!

Well, we are not such hot rally folks. We went to the wrong restaurant; finally making it to the right one as most people were leaving. It was up from there. Thanks goodness we are across from the campfire so we could see everyone heading over with their chairs! Everyone introduced themselves and told a little bit about their TrailManors. Of course we were from the farthest location. People couldn’t believe we were all the way from Seattle. We got a couple of ideas for places to visit on this trip. Tomorrow is an Open House. If you want to open up your Manor you turn your porch light on. Of course we will be spruced up and ready for company but we want to see others also. Chris and Norm’s is one of the newest. A few people in the club have moved on to regular trailers or 5^th wheels. One couple even kept their TrailManor because their 5^th wheel is to big for some places. As they have gotten up in years, the setting up and taking down is not as appealing but they love the friends they have made in the club. There is a pot luck tomorrow night and a breakfast on Sunday morning. Now we are with the program.

Atlanta History Center - March 21

March 21

I have really been suffering from allergies. There is a yellow layer of pollen everywhere. Mom said the news was saying Atlanta is the worst place in the WORLD right now for pollen. They even had pictures on the yellow pollen on TV! I finally got some meds that seem to be helping.

We went to the Atlanta History Center today. It came with our tour of Margaret Mitchell’s house or we probably would have missed it. The Swan House sat in the middle of 22 acres when it was built in the 1930’s. The property now also holds the Atlanta History Museum and the Smith family farm from 1850 that was moved here. We took the tours of the homes with the farm house and the out buildings first. Our guide put us back to 1862 during the Civil War. One of their sons had gone off to fight a fast and easy conflict with the north a year ago but now it was obvious that the war was going to be devastating to both sides in loss of lives. She read a letter written home and talked about the effects of the war on the families at home and the part they played as the war worsened. The Swan house was built in 1929. Our guide put us in the year 1933 but was not as good at time travel as the previous guide. The home is beautiful and one of the finest in Atlanta at the time. The grounds are lovely.

The museum was one of the best I have seen and was broken up into areas on the Civil War, Southern Folk Art, and Golf with Bobby Jones as the main player. They had another area on the Olympics centering on the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta that we didn’t see. The exhibits were so well done. My hat goes off to the staff.

1950's Farm House

One Room Slave Cabin for 6 or 7 Slaves

Swan Home Front Entrance

Taken From the Rear Looking to the Screen Porch

Swan Home

Atlanta March 20

March 20

We had three places to visit on our list today and each one ended up being really interesting. We headed to the north end of Atlanta to tour Margaret Mitchell’s apartment where she was living when she wrote “Gone With the Wind.” Interesting to think of Rawlings writing the “Yearling” and Margaret Mitchell writing “ Gone With the Wind” in the same time period, both getting due acclaim and then the two becoming friends through their writing. Even as a child, she always loved writing. They even have a little book on display that she made when she was eleven. She was not interested in school and left Smith College after one year. Her mother had passed away and her father thought she should move home to run the household. Margaret wasn’t interested in that either. She ended up with a job as a reporter, not common in the 30’s, married, divorced and married again and living in the small apartment we visited that she called “The Dump.” Both she and Rawlings came from families with money. We heard that Margaret’s father came to the Dump for a visit and sent a housekeeper right away. She had an accident affecting her ankles making it hard for her to walk and couldn’t get out to do her reporting. She was becoming very depressed, but with her husbands encouragement and the purchase of a typewriter, she began writing what became “Gone With the Wind.” She wrote the last chapter first and then went forward putting chapters in manila envelopes as she went. She used a stack of these envelopes to hold up a broken table leg. I guess the envelopes were everywhere. She was on the shy side and didn’t want criticism so it was years before she would finally submit it. The publishers were leery about publishing a 1,000 page book at the high price of $3.00 and still in the depression but of course it was an instant success. She sold the movie rights to David Selznick but wasn’t interested in writing the screen play. Her life came to an early end at 49 when she was hit by a car as she was crossing the street. Once again, our guide was fabulous and had so many stories to tell. It was obvious that she was fascinated with Margaret and certainly passed her enthusiasm on to us. She did a great job pointing our how her life experiences influenced her writing. On the same property is a museum showing a film on the making of the movie, “Gone With the Wind.“ Selznick wanted to see how his three hour movie was going to go over without the press. He previewed in Riverside away from Hollywood. People came to see a movie and at the end a speaker cam out and told them they were going to show a three hour movie premier and if they wanted to leave they should so so now as the doors would be locked once the movie started. It showed to a full house with rave reviews. We saw Margaret Mitchell speaking in a news reel.

Margaret Mitchel's apartment where she wrote "Gone With the Wind."

Desk she used when she was a reporter.
They had to cut the desk down because she was only 4'10.''

Doors to the plantation that they used in the movie set.

Driving to the east side of Atlanta, we toured the Wren’s Nest with Nanny, our black 82 year old tour guide. This slight little woman with sparkling eyes kept us enthralled as she shared stories about Mr. Harris, his family and his writing. She shared a bit of her life as well. The Wren’s Nest was the home of Joel Chandler Harris and his children from 1881 until his death in 1908. He wrote the “Uncle Remus Stories” on the front porch. I always loved the stories as a child and I think “Song of the South” was my first movie. Nanny was absolutely enthralled with Harris and his family along with the stories. She started out 15 years ago cleaning the home and is now a guide but won’t give up her cleaning job. She loves being able to touch and care for the household items. Harris was born out of wedlock and his was mother forced to move away from everything she knew when he was born. This little red headed boy spent all of his free time growing up hanging out with the slaves where his mother was working. He loved the stories he heard in the slave dialect and wanted to share them as an adult. Thanks to him the folklore stories were saved using the dialect when he did his writing about Brer Rabbit. They created a bit of controversy. A quote in a publication says, “A century ago, Joel Chandler Harris almost single handedly blew life into public consciousness about black American folklore. Both reviled and revered, Harris’s legacy lives on.

The Harris Home in the 1800's
The azaleas and flowering trees are beautiful right now.

Nanny taking us through the harris home.

Last on the list was the Cyclorama. It is a 360 degree painting that is 358 feet wide, 42 feet tall and weighs 9,334 pounds. The theater seats rotate on a platform while the viewer is taken through the battle of Atlanta during the Civil War. The thirty foot span between the painting and the platform is filled with a 3D scene with roads, railroad crossings, trees and 128 soldiers. The foreground runs right into the painting. The narrator describes July 22, 1864 as Sherman is taking Atlanta. It really is pretty spectacular. It was painted in 1865-66 by German artists. The diorama was added in 1936 with the CCC program. Norm and Christy saw it on their trip in 1993 and Norm remembered it as a hokey attraction not worth seeing again. Chris on the other hand thought he was thinking of something else and it was pretty cool. We decided to go ahead and see it while Norm took a nap in the car. We were all happy. Chris and I enjoyed the Cyclorama and Norm enjoyed a nap. That’s what we want; happy campers.

Atlanta - Martin Luther King

March 19

We spent most of the day at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site today. They have a wonderful museum with interesting photos, videos and time lines on Martin Luther King Jr’s life. The roots of King’s lifelong fight for equality are here with the home where he was born and lived his first twelve years. When the park service bought the home they decided they had better try to buy the surrounding homes so that the neighborhood would stay in tact. It is an ongoing process. The Ebenezer Baptist Church where his grandfather, father and later Martin preached is right down the street. At the time, the black neighborhood had everything necessary for the community with shops, a grocery, cleaners, doctors, lawyers etc. The neighborhood had been all white when it was first built but as the whites moved out the blacks moved in. It was a mix of houses economically including large ones like the King families and small ones across the street. They were not welcomed in the white neighborhoods nearby. We took a tour through the home with the ranger telling many stories of his childhood. He was just an ordinary kid pulling his sister’s hair, having a messy room and sliding down the banister. He excelled in school and entered Morehouse College at 15. We heard about the family sitting down for dinner each night with the three children expected to be ready to discuss their school day plus news events and recite a Bible verse. Another story was when Martin, or M.L. as he was called by his family, was walking down the street with his father and saw some shoes in a store window that he wanted. They went into the “white” store and the clerk told them that they needed to go the rear of the store so they wouldn’t be seen and he would help them. His father marched them out of the store. His father told him they should be treated like everyone else and were not going to “move to the back.“ Martin Luther King, Sr. was head of the Atlanta branch of the NAACP. Conversations like the one with the shoe store, conversations in their front parlor with civil rights meetings going on, preaching’s by his father and grandfather, and college students living in their home with their conversations all helped to form M.L.’s passion for the betterment of their community and civil rights in general. Early on he became a spokes person for peaceful change. In 1959, he traveled to India to study the nonviolent teachings of Gandhi as the guest of Prime Minister Nehru. His Nobel Peace Prize in on display. Outside the museum is a reflecting pool and the crypts of Martin and Coretta King. It was good to be reminded of his passion and what he accomplished in his short life with peace and love as his focus rather than hate. I wrote my high school senior term paper on school desegregation in 1961 and remember being shocked at some of the news articles I had read.. I would love to read it today. Dr. King earned his place in history with his dream of equality for African Americans, but his ultimate dream was of human rights worldwide. I have heard about his faults but he was certainly an amazing man and accomplished much in his short life. The museum is very moving. We didn’t feel like doing any other site seeing and headed home.

I came home with this quote:

Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the “fight with fire” method which you suggest is bitterness and chaos, the aftermath of the love method is reconciliation and creation of the beloved community. Physical force can repress, restrain, coerce, destroy, but it cannot create and organize anything permanent, only love can do that. Yes, love - which means understanding, creative, redemptive, goodwill, even for one’s enemies - is the solution to the race problem. Martin Luther King Jr., 1957

More:

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.


Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s home until he was twelve years old.

Memorial Pond

Church where he preached along with his father and grandfather.

Beautiful time line mural outside the museum.

Atlanta and "The Auction Kings"

March 17 and 18

We finally waved good byes to Florida. We had already visited the southern tip of Florida. There must be some things we missed but I sure don’t know what they are. Florida is a beautiful state! We had about a seven hour drive north to Stone Mountain just east of Atlanta, GA. The flowering trees are in bloom with white and pink blossoms. The dogwoods and azaleas are beautiful. The wisteria is growing wild along the freeway, sometimes twenty feet tall. The bad news is there is yellow pollen covering everything and my allergies are all riled up. We will be here for six nights before going south of Atlanta to Perry, GA for the Trail Manor Rally. We plan on going into Atlanta a couple of days and spending a day in Stone Mountain Park.

We had big plans for today. Chris and Norm love the TV show "Auction Kings" that airs on the Discovery channel and they have their auction house, Gallery 63, in Atlanta. They hold one auction a month and today was they day for March! We got there before they opened and found a line. They were already filming the crowd as we lined up. Paul, the big wig, welcomed us as we filed inside. We had two hours to get our seats and check out the merchandise before the auction started. It’s a good thing we found some seats in the bleachers right away. Lots of people had to stand in the isles by the time the auction started and some were still waiting outside when we left. There was lots of filming and activity going on before the show and it was nonstop once the auction started. It was a little rich for our blood so we left empty handed but had fun watching all the goings on. It is supposed to be over at 6:00 but I guess it can go on into the night. We were just “Lookie Lous” and only stayed about an hour.

Reading about The Varsity near Georgia Tech peeked our interest. It is the world’s largest drive-in starting in 1928 and a “must” experience! They can serve over 600 cars and 800 people inside. We did the whole deal with the tray on the window, hamburgers, fries, onion rings and malts! Amazingly, we didn’t even spill! They serve 5,000 homemade fried peach and apple pies each day. So, being in Georgia and at The Varsity, we thought we had better try a fried peach pie! I guess we won’t need dinner tonight.

Fantasy Disney Ship with Sandy and Glen

March 16

Today we were guests of Sandy and Glen (Norm’s sister and brother-in-law) aboard the brand new Disney ship, “Fantasy!” It was the next best thing to cruising. They gave us “the all inclusive tour” including some behind the scenes. They know the ship inside and out. Glen went over to Germany to work on some aspects of the sound on the ship in February. Sandy met him before the ship sailed across the Atlantic for a 12 day shake down cruise. Glen has been on board for 45 days and still fine tuning the sound! They had a stop in New York for three days and then sailed to Port Canaveral, FL. They have taken one Caribbean cruise and left this afternoon on a second before going home. What an experience!!! The ship is really amazing. We have done some cruising but this ship is beyond incredibly beautiful and huge (14 stories). The attention to detail is really something. There is beauty and luxury for adults and everything imaginably Disney for the kids. You dine in three different dining rooms and your servers go with you each night, great concept. The kids clubs were all fabulous plus they have adult only areas. There is definitely something going on all the time for everyone. If we cruised on the ship, Chris and I would have to ride the AquaDuck. You get in an inner tube and ride through a tube with running water that is high above the pool deck and goes around the ship. What fun that would be. The computer age is in evident throughout with things like interactive art work and a detective game for all ages that looked like fun. There are beautiful mosaic murals even in the bathrooms! Their room was spacious and had two bathrooms including a bathtub! If you are in an inside cabin, they have a porthole look alike that shows a video of what you would see from a balcony, plus there are Disney characters in it. Lunch was delicious with everything you could imagine. We saw where they have set up a sound studio for Glen’s team in one of the staterooms so they can do editing. They have used a lot of the sound from another Disney ship, “Dream,” and tweaked it for this one plus added some new things. They are still on the shake down phase. People connected with Disney plus invited guests boarded today for the cruise this afternoon. It will have its first paying customers March 31. What a fabulous day for us, and we think Glen and Sandy had a great time showing us around. We were ready to sail way!

Our First View of "Fantasy"

Sandy and Glen Greeted Us!

Tiny Mosaic Tiles Covered the Walls in the Bathroom - Beautiful

Chris in The Tube - A London Themed Bar

Glen and Sandy's Lovely Room

A Ride on The AquaDuck

Glen is the Sound Editing Studio

Glen and I Ready for a Drink!

Ready to set sail, but alas, we are not on board!

March 14 and 15

March 14

Daytona is an hours drive and a straight shot east from our RV Resort. When we went through Daytona in the rain in February it was Race Week for the Daytona 500 and very busy. Today it is the middle of Bike Week and really busy. Over a half a million bikers are here! We have seen motorcycles everywhere. We stepped into another world once again, the world of car racing, and took the Daytona International Speedway Tour. We were surprised at how fabulous the tour was. We drove in a tram with a another great guide as he took us onto the actual raceway with its 31 degree high banks. We went behind the scenes to see the Drivers Meeting Room where they get the low down before the race, the garages where they work on the cars, the tech inspection area, the Press Box high above the race track, and had our picture taken at Gatorade Victory Lane! It was 90 minutes full of information. They get about 250 million people at the Daytona 500 race each year! All kinds of vehicle races take place here. This week there are motor cross races for Bike Week. We saw them working on their bikes in the garages. As the bikes have gotten faster and faster, they actually had to slow down the course by making it shorter to keep the bikes from going too fast for safety. Standing up in the Press Box and looking out onto the expanse of the speedway was really breath taking. We even saw the winning car from this years Daytona 500! We drove across the bridge with motorcycles on all sides of us to see the beach where the car races actually started on the sand. They didn‘t move to an actual track until the 1930‘s. From 1903 to 1935, some 15 speed records were set on the sandy beaches. Today cars can drive on the beach when it is low tide. It was high tide when saw it and didn’t look like much room. As we passed Main Street, thousands of motorcycles were in view!

Norm Tapping His Watch Waiting on Us Girls!

Our Tram Tour of the Daytona International Speedway

We Won! Gatorade Victory Lane

Our guide talking to us up in the Press Box. 

Norm's Panaramic Photo From the Press Box
A picture can be worth a 1000 words.

The 2012 Winning Car

March 15

Today is a “take care of business day”.