Headed out in the RV this evening to a three day race at VMP.
I want to wish everyone and their families a Happy Thanksgiving.

Hold your loved ones close and be nice to a stranger so that they may give thanks as well.

School is my excuse....Happy Pre Thanksgiving Race!!!

It has been a while but school and work are to blame. Today we have a pre Thanksgiving race. And we will also have a pre Thanksgiving dinner for the racers and this is my first time using the convection oven and I am cooking a sweet potato casserole. So this is an adventure for me today.  I have a few more weeks to go in school January will be here very soon and I will be going to clinicals in the hospital setting. For anybody thinking about going into respiratory therapy do not take that decision lightly this is very hard. Not everybody that signed up and started this program will be going to clinicals. I hope we don't lose any more people especially myself. So I bring my books with me to the track and I study in between rounds. This weekend I'm going to focus on making my flash card so that I can quiz myself and my husband can help with me as well. I guess that's it but I'm going to attach a picture of my convection oven cooking casserole covered in Reynolds Wrap but you get the idea.

Sorry its been a while, School started back......

school has started back.....full swing in Respiratory school and I am working on becoming SCUBA certified as well. During the summer Phlebotomy clinicals were at the VA hospital and went by very quickly. I still have yet to take my test, the program head for some reason doesn't put the students first and has been dragging her feet as far as making sure we have our letters needed to take the test.

We are at the track this weekend for a Raiders Race and I have set up a nice little area for the vacation station. So in between racing i have been studying so many tests and hands on testing for these classes. I like it. Hubby has been doing really well in racing, hopefully he will take home a championship this year :)

Skies over Doswell today are wicked

on the way home and the skies are wicked

Sunset at Virginia Motorsports Park

Here at VMP a little testing on a Friday evening :)

a day off.....

Busch Gardens for my birthday! more pics to come!

Whats for breakfast?

I posted that we have been cleaning up our food, this is my typical breakfast.
Note: I use organic coconut oil for my healthy fats and cooking.

Too hot....

It has been so hot lately, that I haven't taken my camera or my video camera to document the events that have happened at the racetrack. I have been in two ladies challenge since the first one semi final and 1 and running up in another.
The days when it's beautiful enough for the guys to race has been ridiculously hot. its not comfortable for anybody even with the fan going it just makes for a miserable day. Seems like from that you get up in the morning you're like a robot just walking around and doing what you're supposed to do to get day done to make sure that my husband drives as safe as accurate as possible.
This coming weekend is my birthday and it marks in age from me that is all most difficult for me to accept.
I have thought about it and decided that I need to get my butt in gear and start eating correctly from my health if I haven't ruined it already. So my husband and I have been walking every other day at least two miles or more. we have been choosing the right things to eat and so far he has lost 10 pounds and I've lost 6 & a half. We both have many more to lose but instead of just losing weight we are going to start building muscle gaining endurance and getting healthy at the same time. This was a challenge this weekend in the RV. we had to make sure that when we took food it wasn't just your normal slap on the grill and hurry up and eat it and go food.
I took cut peppers and fruit for when I was feeling snacky. he mixed up a big huge bowl of tuna fish.
And for our first night of dinner we had a recipe cold Chipotle bacon chicken. which I was able to make in the crock pot. I got the recipe of a website called paleopot.com. I have eliminated grain pasta flower rice and processed food from our diet. so its not that easy when you go to the drag strip and the concession stand has nothing but processed fried and marinated in whatever they can find food.
   My ultimate goal is to be healthy and feel beautiful and feel comfortable in comfortable clothes and not has to worry about what blubber is showing beneath the clothes when I walk when we go to Punta Cana Dominican Republic next year. we have saved up for a number of years a little bit each month and we finally got enough or we can go pamper ourselves on the beautiful white sand beaches of Punta Cana. we have been there before so we already know we love it. More on that later.
hubby made it down to six cars yesterday and as we were packing up to leave it started to rain. and it brought in some wonderful cool air. so on the way home we open the windows in the RV and it felt beautiful.

In between rounds

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After a very scary ride home.....

The picture is of the lights you use as a guide going over Afton mountain when a very dense fog sets in. They are orange and help you get down the mountain safely. Hubs slowed way down, and all I could see was white fog, so dense 5 feet in front of the coach was a sheet of white..... like a ghost had swallowed us. I was very concerned, but hubs took it slow and we made it through.
I Dont think it would have been so bad had if we didn't have a 35 foot trailer behind our rig. So super slow was the only way to go. The person we were traveling with said he was a nervous wreck while he was driving through there, but made it safely as well. As soon as some pics are posted of the race I will post them, but for now I am unpacking washing clothes and re stocking for our next adventure :).

Test and Tune Wednesday Bristol

we set up camp wednesday night and thursday i had the front of the motorhome all decked out with lantern light along the front, and someone told hubby that there was a weather cell coming through so we clipped the zip ties took down my lanterns........no storm, no nothing.
So Today after a wonderful Red light by hubbs, losing 1st round, I have retired to the coach and am marinading chicken, and chilling in the air conditioning. we have had fun so far and I will hang onto the "fun" parts of this. Drag racing is not for every one, but hubs loves it and I love some parts of it, it would be better if I were racing though...lol.

THUNDER VALLEY!

Panoramic view for your pleasure!

We are on our way to BRISTOL!

We left the house this morning at 4:30am. We are still on the road its 10:15 we should be there in a few minutes. We are going to the Bristol Motor speedway/Dragway. I just saw a sign, Bristol 22 miles!
We are participating in the Spring Fling going for fun and $$$$. Hopefully we will have more of the latter. Lol.
Rolling hills and lots of "overlooks" did I ever tell you I'm afraid of heights...ugh.

The skies on my road

we will be traveling this week to Tennessee for the K&N Spring Fling in Bristol, I do hope we dont meet any skies like this while we are there ..... scarry!

The next night (Sunday) Hubby WON!!!!

He told me over dinner with some friends,
"I couldn't let you show me up"
every body laughed we had a very fun weekend.
The RV was fine, and we found out where a small water leak was coming from....the ice maker. So hubs tightened that up and we shall see in the future if it leaks again :)

Racing is so much fun! I was runner up!

Coffee in the morning is the best part of RV 'ing I think.

To sum up lastnight, I had the most fun I've had in a long time!
Hubby tried his best but just couldn't hit the sweet spot with his car. He was there for me last night and he was the best teacher! Check out the trophy!

Another great weekend at the track, but this weekend ...I'M racing!

Usually when we go to the track my husband is the racer, but this weekend, it's my turn to play.....
I will race my car. It's all stock - a 2012 Chevy Cruze.

My best friend said she would come out and take pics of me while going down the track. I will post those  this weekend.
We plan on taking the RV and my fur babies :)
This weaken end will be pretty relaxed only one day in the vacation station. The previous weekend we learned a valuable lesson....well a couple.
1. Dump the gray water before you go
2. Turn off the power to the chassis when you have the generator running so it preserves the starting power and charges the accessory batteries.

We found ourselves with an RV that wouldn't start b/c we left the chassis power on. Luckily we have some great people who race with us that are keen on the workings of RV/motorhomes :)
Here are some pics of the race cars....

The top one is Hubby's Dragster - Yes that's me just driving it around :)

This is my car I will be racing this weekend.

I have 3 weeks before I start gearing up for my clinicals in phlebotomy.....Then i will probably start a new job. I have a lot of things going on this summer :) So getting our and enjoying the RV is a priority. 

At the track in the Vacation Station!

Its empty now but in a few hours this place will be crawling with alcohol fueled cars and hungry competotors, waiting for their chance at the 1320.
It is a brisk day i would estimate the temp to be about 40 the expected high today is 56-60 so it will be nice and cool and clear blue skies.
My husband went a few rounds yesterday. Hopefully today will be better. He's driving someone else's car and not his own as he is experiencing motor problems. But it should be back together pretty soon we hope. The vacation station is operating at peak performance. I just finished cleaning up from scrambled eggs and sausages that were made by my husband.
Yesterday was a hard day for the dogs I had to leave the track and take them to go to the vet they had their yearly physicals and had to get blood drawn and my little girl Yorkshire terrier Dolly had to have a shot. So she's pretty stiff this morning. Just to be clear we are at Richmond Dragway www
Richmonddragway.com for the Collision1- 10 K Grand Slam.

Cleaning day in the vacation station

We have a 3 day weekend coming up and I thought I'd go ahead and get in here and clean from top to bottom. Notice the Dixie cup sitting on the counter that is full of joyful cleaning potion. I want at pictures from this past weekend unfortunately we didn't take the RV but we did have a fun time at the racetrack. Hubby went 4 rounds that's the whole point in racing is making some rounds and having fun while you're doing it!

No rving this weekend but the races are still going on tomorrow

So I am gearing up for tomorrow by making green cupcakes with green icing hand piped by me. I will take these to the track tomorrow and share. So Happy Saint Patty's everybody! Stay safe!

I knew it when we left....

I came back with the worst cold ever. We left Friday and i knew my "cold" would kick into full gear while we were gone. Well it did and I had a rough time. My hubby's dragster had transmission issues, and the fella that met us down there had a water pump problem. He fixed the water pump then on the way home that poor guy's truck broke down. If it wasn't a learning weekend then it was just determined to make you mad! Sleeping in the RV the first night was rough. Very different from my home bed and i was ill on top of that. The second night wasn't so bad, but i was ill and tired.
After all of the little blah parts i did enjoy being able to take my fur babies and ride around on the golf cart....here is a picture of the rv with trailer where we were parked...

Getting ready for the maiden voyage

We have many people at our house trying to work out the kinks and answer questions we may have before we head to Dunn NC to a dragstrip for the weekend.

Still Setting up and discovering .....

Well this past weekend we were able to get in there and really get into the working of the Coach. I bought a new dvd player and replaced the old VCR that was left in there (so many wires). I  had to get an RF modulator to convert the basic bandwidth to a radio bandwidth (military signal training came into play on this one). I go tthe DVD player working on both TV's and it looks fantactic. Now I need to install a separate dvd player in the bedroom unit so we are not subject to watch what's on up front.

The refrigerator was not working, so hubs went in there yesterday and fiddled with it and said he got it to work and it was on. One of those mysteries we'll probably have to solve in the middle of no where.

Got some food stowed for the humans and the fur babies. Put a crock pot in the cabinet, and spices for some gourmet RV cookin! We had our first meal in there Friday night. It was Arby's.

This weekend I believe we will start to get everything running, such as the water and the plumbing. I made hubby promise that if we were near a facility with "facilities" he would make use of that, instead of the RV "storage".

I'm not sure when our first trip will be but I'm sure to take and post lots of pics when we do.  ;)

We are still getting things set up....

Our coach is in the process of being loaded with all the necessary gadgets and gizmos  that will make it's our home away from home. I am still learning and reading as much as I possibly can so that I can help with the RV experience instead of leaving it up to my husband to remember to do everything. Here are a few pictures of our rig. I think we're going to give it a test run before we actually taking on a trip just to make sure that we have everything that we need. I'm thinking of things everyday that I might need. That's one of my worst fears is to go somewhere and be like oh my gosh I just forgot my toothbrush or something like that.
But just f.y.i this will be a little documentation of our trips an hour adventures that we go on an RV and our family.