Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Bob's Blah Blog:

Ok, some catching up to do. What we forgot to blog about were two things. After dropping Kevin and Kyle of at the camp, we drove down to Richmond, CA to go to lunch in Frisco. On the drive down, we stopped at the Infineion, Infinion, Infineon, or however it is spelled, racetrack. This is where Juan Carlos, or Juan Pablo or Juan somebody Montoya won the NASCAR road race a few weeks back. There were a mixture of cars racing around on the track when we were there. Corvettes, porches, mustangs, VW bugs (not really). We watched for awhile then left. Going into Richmond we crossed this big ol' bridge over the bay. Someone (and I mean Corinne) didn't like that idea very much. I talked about the recent earthquake in Oakland a few days earlier and someone (and I mean Corinne) didn't like that conversation any better. First, the girls (and I mean Corinne and Maurine) complain I don't talk enough when I drive, and now, someone (and I mean Corinne) says "I talks too much." A guy just hasn't a chance with a redhead.

The other thing to write about was when we were doing our first load of laundry in Walnut Grove, this guy came in wearing a Victory Junction Gang t-shirt. VJG is the place Kyle Petty (and I mean the son of the King, Richard Petty) built after the death of his son, Adam. It is for disabled kids to come and have fun at. Adam wanted to build something like this after visiting another place for disabled kids, but, Adam died in a car crash. Well, anyways, we got to talking with this guy and come to find out he is good friends with the Petty's and other racing drivers because he used to be on several of the racing crews and basically grew up in racing. He got to talking and telling stories about racing and the old days. He was pretty entertaining, and got emotional when he spoke about Adam Petty. He told one story about Richard Petty and friends out riding their motorcycles or quads or whatever on their farm land and some kid on a dirtbike came riding out of nowhere, passed them, then stopped and came back. He asked if that was Richard Petty sitting there on his machine and Richard said, "it is." The kid told Richard he was his favorite driver, then rode off on his motorcycle. Richard noted afterwards the kid was wearing a Dale Earnhardt t-shirt and said "those Earnhardt fans are everywhere."

All for now. Someone (and I mean Corinne) wants to use this computer to do some genealogy work. We are at the family history center in Salt Lake City.

Y'all tell ur momma I said "Hi."

Bobo