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Originally Posted by slodave
What happened to your jet.   Oh, even a prop plane would get you there faster  |
Had 'free' lodgings and all the 'comforts' of home in Charlotte. Plane/team was in RDU. Meant a drive back and forth during the 'home games'.
If you're not used to it, what is considered PITA TAILGATING anywhere else in the world is simply neighborly 'drafting' down there. Would be breezing along at 75-ish, all alone, and some local would come from way back, or slow down till I passed, and suck in behind. Even when I pulled to second lane. Was finally 'informed' that this was perfectly normal for a region raised on NASCAR.
The REALLY funny part was during the winter during one of their famous ice storms. Every car on the road (still engaged in NASCAR-style driving) was in the ditch or marooned in the center divider stuck at the end of 300 feet of swirling skidmarks.
There was not a rental car to be had south of Philly.
All in all, I loved my time there.