I don’t want to survive…

After a little bit of a delay at YXU and YYZ, I’m off on my last big trip of the year.  The first destination is Las Vegas, where the company that does our fitting has a shop.  In addition to just seeing the facility and get a better understanding of their business, they’ve got some new equipment for us that needs to be outfitted and setup.  But more than that, I’m hoping to get a couple of hours on the blackjack tables at Caesar’s tonight!

Tomorrow I fly to New Orleans, there is a race track on the south side of the city where F3 is running this weekend.  I’ve never been to this track before, but I am under the impression that it’s not too hard a track, so it should be a fairly low key weekend.  Any recommendations on place to eat?  I would like to find some good gumbo I think.

On Sunday I fly to Denver for a few ‘work from Denver’ days for which I’m really excited.  It will be great to catch up with some friends, and I will get a day of doing my brewery crawl, and a day of driving up into and around the mountains.  I’m going to have to dig out my Denver to do list…

From there I fly to Austin next Thursday for the F1 weekend, where I will be supporting F3 and F4.  I love Austin and am looking forward to some live music, plus the beer and food scene is pretty good.

The following Monday I fly to San Francisco, where there is an 8 hour endurance race at Laguna Seca.  I am really looking forward to this weekend, as Monterey is just about my favourite place in the world, and I haven’t been there for far too long.  I’m hoping to have a little bit of free time for a Fish Hopper breakfast, a lap around 17 mile drive, maybe get down to Big Sur or Carmel for lunch.  And obviously a visit to the aquarium and Bubba Gumps!

The Monday after that I will fly from San Francisco to Milan, where the Ferrari Challenge Finale will be held at Monza.  To be honest, I’m not really looking forward to this trip, I just don’t want to do another trip that long right now.  Plus I was supposed to have another (better) weekend in Austin…. But it will be alright, I know of at least one really great restaurant close by, and the Ferrari Challenge Finale experience could be interesting.  I think I started to develop a rapport with them the last event I did (Road Atlanta) so maybe a chance to build on that isn’t the worst thing.

Then I will fly back home for only a couple of days, before heading to Daytona for the Trans Am finale.  After which I’m pondering a little Florida road trip, I would really like to see Cape Canaveral, go to the Nascar race at Homestead (the FRR send off) and maybe spend a couple of days in Key West.  Anyone done Cape Canaveral, or anything else fun around there?

And then it will be the off season!  By which I mean, I get some time to work on the Chump Car and get ready for the Chili Bowl…