Concord, United States Travel Blogs

Racing Mecca!
Nov 23, 2007 (12 photos)

... logical step for the owners of these cars was to race them. These races were popular entertainment in the rural Southern United States, and they are most closely associated with the Wilkes County region of North Carolina. Most races in those days were of ...

Wednesday 25 June
Jul 8, 2008

Wednesday 25th June   After breakfast as we were just about to head away I went round the right side of the van to put something in one of the outside lockers only to find a gaping hole where a vent cover should normally be ( external fridge vent ...

Hanging out with family
Sep 25, 2008 (5 photos)

Made it to my cousins with all my limbs and digits. We rode through the Redwood Forest and down the cost.  There were amazing views and big ass trees. Once I got to my cousin's house I did some high tech repairs with some shoe goo. Lets hope I sealed it up ...

Two more days of work...four days to go...
Jul 29, 2007 (4 photos)

Only four more days to go, including just two workdays.  The travel plan has been finalized and solidified and set in stone, and what's more, it's extremely colorful (aha! all of those Microsoft Excel classes I took years ago have finally paid a ...

Our Thank You's
Nov 2, 2007

No amount of wishing, or dreaming for that matter, will extend this adventure (believe me, I've been trying ever since I went back to work on October 9th), so it's finally time for me to post our "Thank You's" and acknowledgements. Also, let it be ...

Ten Days To Go
Jul 24, 2007

... , just ten more days... After over a year and a half of reading, research and long-distance planning between Concord, California and London, England, innumerable emails, and biweekly phone calls, the trip schedule has finally solidified into a cold ...

Smoggy California
Nov 17, 2008 (1 photos)

Left Tehachapi early in the morning bound for Jessie & Nick's house on the outskirts of San Francisco.  I drove through one of the agricultural meccas of the US, the center of Cali.  It was cool to see the lemon trees all around.   ...

The road less traveled
May 27, 1991

... for. New Hampshire's legislature is the largest in the country - more than 400 seats! Canterbury Shaker Village is in Concord. Also the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, a memorial to the nation's first teacher in space. There is skiing nearby, in the ...

On the Road
Jul 18, 2009

I could not sleep last night.  I just got home from a trip to New Orleans to bid my grandmother farewell, as she passed away this past week, and the anxiety surrounding this event inhibited my ability to snooze.  My husband originally set our ...

Headed Home
Jul 19, 2009

On the whole this brief weekend getaway was just the antidote to the grief I had been feeling over my grandmother's passing.  The bright colors of stucco exteriors, as well as the palm leaves rustling in the summer breeze lifted my spirits, if only ...

13 days left...
Aug 21, 2005 (1 photos)

Ok, I am seriously feeling like I am really far behind, but that will change! Spending all of next week sorting through the rest of my stuff at the condo. I have limited myself to two storage boxes to keep. The rest is going to Good Will. There is ...

Are we there yet?
Jul 19, 2006

It looks like this trip is for real! Our travel agent, Holly, bravely came to our house to meet with Tahiti/Bobcat group. I say this because there was a "small" glitch in Craig and Cathy's accomodations on Huahine. Of course, small was the adjective ...

Reliving the American Revolution
Aug 9, 2007 (19 photos)

... life in Concord. I should also note that the road we were driving on had been the same road the the Bedford/Lexington/Concord minutemen had marched down in the Revolutionary War, very exciting! At this point we were getting a little hungry (or I was ...

Tom and Janell's
May 4, 2008 (12 photos)

At Tom's and Janell's we spend 10 days getting the truck ready for our trip by building a grill guard and Tom already build a fuel tank to set in the back of the truck. I finished off the pump system. Attached are pictures of the truck when it was ...

Getting Ready
Aug 7, 2006 (17 photos)

Hey, I finally found housing for my semester in Ireland. I will be living in a twin bedroom at Menlo Park Apartments. Menlo is about a 15 minute walk into down town Galway and about 20 minutes from the University. Also I just got my plane ticket booked ...

Five Days and Counting...
Feb 10, 2006

Hello! This is my first entry in my travelogue, and I must say I'm excited about sharing everything I do over the next few months with everybody. Not only that, but it'll provide me with a diary of sorts to keep track of everything I do so I won't be ...

Dirt Track Racing at Lowe's Motor Speedway
Apr 20, 2008

  We moved the hour from Advance, NC to Concord (near Charlotte), so we could easily attend The Colossal - a two day dirt modified race that attracts racers from all over with its $50,000 to win grand prize!

Getting Started
Jun 27, 2009

Planning to hit the road at the crack of dawn. We're really excited about this trip and can't wait to get started!

1st Day of my promotional tour with Toyota Trucks
May 28, 2008 (1 photos)

... nbsp; We were picking up this tour from the previous group who was running it for the past couple of weeks. In Charlotte (Concord) they worked the NASCAR event at Lowe's Motor Speedway.  This event included a dirt track with hills and high banks.  ...

Jackets and Shirts
May 30, 2008

We were finally able to get our shirts and jackets today.  At the beginning of our tour we are supposed to get a rain/fleece jacket, long sleeve thermal shirt, and 3 Columbia Performance Fishing Gear shirts.  Until this day I was wearing an XL ...

Concord Motorsport Park
May 31, 2008 (10 photos)

One of the guys in our tour group, Vincent, is an AVID race fan.  I mean he watches and follows as much car racing as possible.  He had an idea of going to a local race car track and I thought that might be a fun idea to go to my very 1st car ...

R&R BBQ
May 30, 2008

R&R BBQ Dinner.

The way to Walden Pond
Nov 20, 1998

... for life. I'm tired. Don't want to be a tourist anymore. Forget New York and Washington, I'll just go straight on home.   Here's Concord now, pull in and get a room, just off Elm and near to Walden Pond. I'll get a meal and call it lunch and dinner ...

Off to the races
Oct 12, 2009 (1 photos)

... to reach the hotel. Sunday, we finished our driving extravaganza and finally arrived in the first city we would be performing in, Concord, NC. This is apparently the home to Lowe's Motor Speedway. That's right NASCAR fans, we were right next to this place ...

100th Blog
Apr 18, 2008

This is now the 100th Blog! It is also the 125th Show! Crazy to think how long I have been on the road.  Seems like just yesterday when we were in Amarillo, TX learning the music and getting to know everyone else who would become like family over the ...

Cuando los Estados no estaban Unidos
Aug 14, 2009 (22 photos)

... a los británicos por su organización y apoyo y el que luchó y consiguió lo que quería. Así, salimos de la calle principal de Concord y su sol abrasador para ir paseando por la sombra de los árboles hasta el puente en el que se supone que se produjo la primera ...

__01____wide eyed and dreaming____
Jan 6, 2007 (1 photos)

i suppose this trip has been a long time coming.  or maybe it has just felt that way.  looking all the way back to the second grade - when my parent's friends from Sydney, Australia came to visit - i've had the urge to travel down under.  ...

Spain Bound!!
Jun 1, 2009

Finally heading to Spain to start my month long trip! This will be an interesting trip as I don't know Spanish and I hear that english is not generally spoken. Let the Adventure begin! The flight over from Boston went well other than a little hold up with ...

First Days!
Aug 14, 2007 (19 photos)

... I will be furniture hunting!  Yuck! Nach dem Nic in einem Motel gewohnt hatte, hat er endlich eine Wohnung in Concord gefunden. Concord ist etwa 40 km von San Francisco entfernt. Am 6. August hat er mich dann vom Flughafen abgeholt. Danach sind wir ...

Let's Fly Already
Nov 12, 2008 (2 photos)

... back with me, and my bag is filled with clothing that I can do without--much of it will be left there. We're leaving Concord at 3:30AM and our flight to Miami departs at 5:30AM. From there, we fly in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, and make our ...