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The 107th running of the Indy 500

By tony.barb.fisher May 28, 20232023 East Coast Tour

6:00am and thousands of sleeping campers are awakened by one fool who thinks it’s cute to fire off an enormous thundering firework to announce the start of Race Day. Thanks buddy. So, we’re awake and enjoying a light breakfast when we realize that we are now being entertained by Christmas…

Arriving in Indy

By tony.barb.fisher May 27, 20232023 East Coast Tour

After enjoying a beverage and slice of pizza at our hosts last evening, we enjoyed a long and silent night. The views across the farmland this morning were serene. Windmills on the horizon quietly turning about their business whilst a few early farming types were up and running about getting…

Heading West to go East?

By tony.barb.fisher May 26, 20232023 East Coast Tour

Welcome to the first in a series of posts in which we will share with you a trip to the Canadian Maritime provinces. We’re traveling in our 2022 PleasureWay OnTour 2.2 camper-van again and plan on staying at a variety of campgrounds along the way. It’s late May 2023 and…

Day 10: May 29 – Indy500, Race day

By tony.barb.fisher May 29, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

The 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 was today, May 29th, 2022 and 30years after attending my first Indy500, I’m back and this time Barb and I will both enjoy the race and the spectacle that this event is. A light breakfast and we’re off to the track at 8:30am.…

Day 9: May 28 – Indy500, Relaxing

By tony.barb.fisher May 28, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

Saturday at the Indy500 is generally quiet from an ‘on-track activities’ perspective as drivers completed their last practice yesterday. Today there is a parade in downtown Indianapolis but as we’re in RVs there’s no way for us to easily get there to watch. As such, today is a day to…

Day 8: May 27 – Indy500, Settling in

By tony.barb.fisher May 27, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

It’s Friday, it’s rained most of the night and today we expect to see many campers in all varieties of vehicles arrive for the weekend of festivities. After a great egg, bacon & hash brown breakfast prepared by J-P & myself, the gang decided to go for a walk down…

Day 7: May 26 – Indy500, Arrival

By tony.barb.fisher May 26, 20222022 Cross-continent tour

The alarm woke us at 6:00am. Ugh. We wanted to arrive at the camping field mid morning so as to hopefully get a site closer to the track than those that would arrive later in the day. This means an early start in an effort to avoid traffic. And so.…