The truck is running on battery power only so we have curtailed our driving as much as possible. !!#*?!! alternator.
I spent the morning whipping up breakfast for today and cooking up some ingredients for quicker breakfast prep the next few days. Peggy wandered out into the warm weather and did some vigorous trailer scrubbing. I got to watch the NASCAR All-Star race. We were pretty dull folks for most of today.
However, right at about 4:00 one of the park operators showed up at our door with the daily delivered popcorn and also told us she could offer us free tickets to some auto racing scheduled for this evening. I asked where this racing was to take place and she pointed across the street to the adjacent Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds. Soon we were afoot on our way to the races.
They only had a few classes of cars racing although it seemed like there were plenty of entrants for a small town like Yreka. One class had four cylinder cars and light trucks, vehicles notorious for tail-happy performance when driving on dirt. Very few of the body panels on these race vehicles were straight at the end of the heat and final races. Two classes of cars had big V-8s installed in car bodies that only generally resembled passenger cars. They turned out to be extremely durable because almost all the cars made it to the finals although virtually none of them looked like they did when the races started earlier in the afternoon. One car was driven at high speed into the end of the K-rail near a track entry point and it was destroyed. Since this is a small track in a small town, there is not really a wall between the track and points outside the track surface; it is merely a dirt berm at the track edge except in front of the grandstands where there is both wall and catch fence. Cars going wide on turns 2 or 3 just disappear over the berm, sometime re-entering the race from another spot along the back straightaway. It was brilliant, if not dusty. After much uncorked exhaust noise and great action, we filed out after the last race for the stroll back home.
Yreka has turned out to be very nice for us. In Waiiaka RV Park we have good cable TV, screaming wifi, full hookups, very good prices, a superb campground staff, tasty popcorn delivery every afternoon, very pleasant weather, free auto races across the street and an attractive place to camp. If it wasn’t for our truck alternator crapping out here, I would be hard-pressed to say anything bad about Yreka and it’s pretty plain these folks had nothing to do with that.