Pre-Atlanta

Hello everyone. Back from our coast-to-coast trip, we now look forward to Atlanta this week... but first let’s wrap up California. I thought we would have a promising finish, but a mechanical failure kept us from reaching our full potential. We decided to try to stretch our fuel mileage, but it turns out that it was a little too far to go. The trip to California and home went off without a hitch and I even got to stop and see my parents on the way home for lunch. Any chance I get to go through Oklahoma City and see them always gives me a little extra motivation for a long trip. After a 3pm ET race on Saturday, my co-driver and I were back in Mooresville by 8am ET Monday morning. As you can probably tell, we don't stop and waste much time when going across the country.

I had a short week, and then a nice weekend off with my family. I spent most of my free time painting a bedroom for my new son, who is to arrive in May. One good thing about the truck series is that we don't race every weekend. This week we are prepping to go to Atlanta. I will probably leave Wednesday night, so I can be down there first thing Thursday morning. This seems like the best time to drive through Atlanta... it’s best for me if I can avoid any Atlanta rush hour... I'm sure a lot of you know what I am talking about. I am looking forward to some southern warm weather after our surprise snowfall of six inches this past weekend. We should be pretty competitive in Atlanta, and I hope we can get our momentum headed in the right direction.

To answer Greg M's question from an earlier blog, the stretch of highway that I hate driving the most is I-20 going through Jackson, Mississippi. It is some of the roughest road that I have ever driven on, but Oklahoma City is a close second. As far as just not liking the roads, the trip to Loudon, New Hampshire doesn't rank very high in my book either. If anybody out there has any other questions for me, feel free to add a comment, and I'll try to get to them in future blogs.

Stay safe!
Bubba