{"id":1646,"date":"2023-10-29T23:19:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2025-03-21T01:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:00:41","slug":"hello-from-las-vegas-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Las Vegas Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello from Las Vegas Motor Speedway<\/p>\n

Sunday October 29, 2023 (First post of this travelogue)<\/p>\n

We are here to attend a National NHRA drag racing event.\u00a0 It is the 20th<\/sup> event of a 21 event schedule.\u00a0 We are parked with the truck and trailer in what is call the \u201cTrackside RV Lot\u201d (Google Map)<\/a> .\u00a0 If you look closely at the map, you will see that our camping area overlooks the dragstrip, and we can see the races pretty well in the comfort of our great camping chairs.<\/p>\n

We have camped at these races a couple of times in the past, but never in the \u201chigh roller\u201d area next to the track.\u00a0 We decided to splurge this year and get \u201cup close\u201d to the action.\u00a0 As noted, we can see the race pretty well and have a portable radio so that we get the \u201ctrackside\u201d announcing.<\/p>\n

The weather here has been pretty decent.\u00a0 Highs have been in the 70s and lows in the 40s-50s.\u00a0 However last night the wind was very strong and blew our chairs and table around a bit.\u00a0 For the races today it will be in the 60s.<\/p>\n

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Race day and the temperature in the 60s but wind blowing<\/p>\n

We are dry camping so that presents a challenge to keep our trailer batteries sufficiently charged.\u00a0 I have run the big generator a few times and it really pours the current into the battery.\u00a0 However, it is pretty loud.\u00a0 The first day I fired it up a person behind us complained to me that his mother just had ear surgery and that the sound really affected her.\u00a0 I tried to be considerate and only run the big generator during the races when it was noisy anyway.\u00a0 I had to ask myself why anyone who has problems with noise would come to a huge drag race that is terribly noisy.\u00a0 Oh Well!<\/p>\n

I ran the small (quiet) generator a bit, but it had to power a battery charger to charge the batteries and the charger I have is really not geared to that kind of application.<\/p>\n

The races were great.\u00a0 There were three crashes and all ended up right in front of us.\u00a0 We did not see two of them but a bike rider came off and landed right in front of us.\u00a0 He signaled that he was conscious when they put him in the ambulance.<\/p>\n

That is all for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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