Old Guys Blog

Friday, December 5, 2008

Daytona Turkey Run

Sorry for the delay in posting, but the Old Guys DO have priorities, and until now, this wasn't one of them!

Here's the story about the Daytona Turkey Run:

Its become a tradition. Every Thanksgiving weekend, the Old Guys are at the Speedway in Daytona for the Turkey Run.

If you've never attended, we park amongst more than 5000 show-quality vehicles, wander through more than 4000 vendors, and check out about a thousand way-overpriced cars for (Thursday prices are always MUCH higher than Sunday prices) sale in the car corral.

When we're not walking around, we're hanging out by our cars, eating (and drinking) way too much because we think that out two-to-three mile walks each day will burn off those calories...wrong!

For many years, we stayed on the beach, with the rest of the gang. Five years ago, when the evening activities were moved to the Speedway (and the beach hotels had nearly priced themselves out of the market), we moved inland, too.

We found a very reasonable hotel just ten minutes from the Speedway, and set up camp there. Did I mention that it was just up the street from the local watering hole, where the Old Guys set up their evening camp.

This year was going to be different. We took twenty-five preferred parking spaces, and offered them to anyone interested in parking with us. We even offered to cook hot dogs and sausages for those that attended. All the spaces filled quickly...on paper, that is. During the weekend, many failed to show up. Oh well, more room and food for those who did!

Next year is going to be different, too, but in a better way. We've found a reasonable beachside (even more reasonable than where we've been staying) hotel, and have already started booking our rooms for 2009.

And we WON'T be involved in the preferred club parking...the Old Guys will be parking with another car club. And we WON'T be cooking Saturday lunch on the grill, either. That other club will be taking care of that, too!

Now all we've gotta do is find a watering hole beachside, unless Cecil already has. Who knows...we may never leave the beach! C'mon, Thanksgiving 2009!

posted by Barry @ 2:57 PM

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