Knoxville at last.

Hello all

After much flying and not a lot of sleep we arrived at Des Moines, Iowa.

We picked up a hire car and after loading it up drove to Pella, a small town 20 miles out of Knoxville.

We didn't even get out of the car park before a disagreement on which side of the car park boom gates we should be on started, there was a big sign saying left side was the exit but the nervous amongst us wanted to be on the right, so we ended up parked on an angle between the two gates, after much laughter and slandering about my road driving abilities being as poor as my track skills we reversed up onto the left boom gate that I had lined up on to start with. Talk about a bunch of dumb Aussies.

Day 2 in Iowa came and went with a trip back to Des Moines to check out the local Malls, only 1 red light run (Who puts lights above the road anyway) with no casualties, then only 1 stop sign run (they have 4 way stop signs at intersections here) but this one was only a 2 way, wont fall for that mistake again, no locals shot at us so they must know we are tourists.

We are disappointed Brooke Tatnell has broken his leg, 3 places just like Norbert, the story in the press says he has told the crew to get the car ready for the nationals, that will be a true test if he goes through with it.

We are off to Knoxville tomorrow to look at the track and then down to Oskalooska to pick up our tickets for the show down there between the 360 and 410 Nationals, then we will probably take in a game of golf as the rules for that are the same as in Aus so we should be able to get it right, although the carts may have different rules.

Well it is after midnight and time for bed, will update on the days events tomorrow evening US time.

Steve