When we planned our family vacation way back last August, the world seemed like a relatively normal place. My wife and I hadn’t been on a vacation that didn’t in some way involve a basketball or baseball tournament that my son was playing in since we went to California in 2008, so we were long overdue.

When the idea was posed that we get together with seven other families and rent a house for a week in Gulf Shores, Ala., I didn’t jump at the idea at first. But we’ve been close to the MORE

While many have been stuck at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, I was lucky enough to be out and about at a number of spring races. From April 30 through May 24 I went to seven events in five states, traveling to North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and twice to Missouri.

Two of the events I attended weren’t for work, but rather so my brother and I could do a bit of racing ourselves. We took our Crate Late Model, which my brother drives, to Southern Raceway in Milton, Fla., on May 2 MORE

Most people who loved West Plains Motor Speedway — typically older folks like myself — aren’t shy in hiding there passion for the famed 3/8-mile oval in southern Missouri. Home of the original Show-Me 100, and now called Legit Speedway Park, Gary Stolba’s track on the edge of nowhere was made famous by one of Late Model racing’s most prestigious events. For 17 years, former track owners Don and Billie Gibson hosted the Show-Me 100, a Memorial Day tradition that, for diehards at least, MORE