Holy Hill (7/21) and Holy *&@# Thats a lot of driving

This was our last day of racing, and, honestly, we probably could have done without it. Oscar and Joey started the race which was shortened to 68 miles instead of 90 after the start was delayed. Oscar dropped out about half way through, after putting in a couple of good attacks, and Joey didn't have much of an impressive finish either. There were a couple big rollers on the course and we just never really felt good going over them.... or anywhere else on the course for that matter. It actually kind of felt like our brakes were rubbing the whole race (they weren't actually, but that's how sluggish we felt). At the finish Joey didn't really have room to sprint anywhere either because it just got so swarmed and crowded. He came across the line around 35th or 40th.

Joey's cousin, Logan Biggs,who is going to school in Milwaukee came to watch the race. He drove his motorcycle out to the course and then followed us home to hang out for a while. He salvaged the day when he invited us to go over to his girlfriend's loft to play some video games, eat, and just hang out for the night. Joey was really happy to spend some time with him.

On Tuesday morning we woke up at 4:30 am and started our 13 hour drive back to Kutztown. We thought leaving by 5 would at least get us through Chicago before the morning rush hour hit, but we had no such luck. Before we knew it we were rolling slow in traffic at like 6 am! The hold up wasn't too bad however, and as we made our way across the states we probably spent close to $30 on tolls on our 14 hour trek. Arriving in Kutztown that evening, it was nice to be back in that familiar house that we had called home for the first half of the summer.

On Wednesday, we spent much of the day packing up and planning how we're going to fit everything in the car for tomorrow's drive home. We packed up 2 TT bikes in a box, 5 wheels in another box, and some other random stuff to ship home since we won't have room in the car to carry everything (we had 2 cars to bring it all up here).

Wednesday morning, while Oscar and Thomas slept in longer than Joey had ever seen them, he went to get coffee and prepared pancakes for the 3 of them. Soon after we woke up, we got straight to work packing the Volvo. We had to ship 2 boxes of random stuff home (in addition to the TT bikes we sent to CA) so that we would have enough room in the car for everything, but it was still an incredibly tight squeeze. If it weren't for Thomas' master packing skills, there's no way everything would have fit. The car was absolutely stuffed to the brim (remember that we brought 2 cars up here in the first place, and the only difference now was that Jafer had already headed home with his bags).