Peggy's Cove to Bristol Tennessee

After a brief stop and a too short but very nice visit with Shane and Sharon we rushed to have a quick visit with Van and Wanda in Shediac, New Brunswick. We are starting to panic now as the campgrounds have been closing around us and it is getting harder and harder to find a place to stay. From there we headed west to Wookstock where we were to cross the border into the USA. We encountered no line ups or long waits so either we lucked out or that is a good place to cross. We will try that route again if we are crossing from New Brunswick.
Oh no, I know it has been a long day....did we make a wrong turn someplace????
No we aren't far enough south yet!
After camping here and there along the way we have arrived at Lakeview RV Park in Bristol Tennessee. It is a great campground with mostly good internet and clean level sites overlooking a lake.


We are also in the home of the Bristol Motor Speedway known as the "The World's Fastest Quarter Mile". The speedway was constructed in 1960 and held its first NASCAR race on July 30 1961. Bristol Motor Speedway boasts the distinct quality of extraordinary steep banking (36 degreees which after resurfacing is reported to have been dropped to 27 degrees. Still pretty steep!) It also has two pit roads and ampitheater-like seating. The seating is such that I don't think there is a bad seat in the house. It is the largest sporting arena in America holding 165,000 spectators.




We also saw the famous quarter mile drag strip nicknamed Thunder Valley where many of the fastest cars have strutted their stuff. There is a sand pit at the end of the strip to help stop the cars at the end of the drag and if that fails there are back up rubber fences. The seating in this venu is also fantastic and it would be hard to have a "bad seat".