Autumn 2008 - on the River & Legends of Ascot trip

November 2. Wow! Time has really flown since September when we returned to the river and those 100 degree temps with trips to Yreka and storage... First grabbing the fans to try and stay cool, and then eventually in mid October taking them back and bringing the heaters. In October we started getting freezing temps upon arising and 80 to 90 mid day. 50 to 60 degree temperature rises are not unusual for spring and autumn in this part of the country.

October 18 we traveled to Lake Perris, California, to attend the 5th Annual Legends of Ascot, a tribute to and celebration of the men who raced/owned/and promoted cars at that legendary race track in Gardena, California. George won the Turkey Day Race there in 1969, the year we were married. In the former years of the Legends event, we weren't back from our summer curising yet, so we were very excited to be able to attend this year.



Don Weaver, George, and Kevin Triplett.









It was a nice event and George was even presented with the "Long Haul" award for coming the furthest distance to attend.... all the way from Alaska (from where our ticket reservation was mailed.) That was a chuckle







After the awards ceremony, we attended the modified races at The PAS (the Perris Auto Speedway), a dirt track. I had forgotten how much dimension the dirt adds to a race. The slogan here is "Get off your asphalt, dirt's for racing".



We were lucky to have low gas prices during the trip. The highest we paid was $3.19 and the lowest was at the Safeway in Redding $2.96. (The prices have come down considerably since then. We are paying $2.23 at the Costco in Medford as of Friday October 31.... Yea for election time.!!!)

We squeezed in a short visits with our family on the way home, and are so happy to be back in the quiet, no traffic, no shopping centers, no noise zone again.

luv/joB