Greetings from Nolalu, Ontario, Canada
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From the travels and adventures of the
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Mosquito Speedway
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Lifetime Track #2,590
THE EVENT I AM A TRACKCHASER. My name is Randy Lewis. I live in San Clemente, California. I am a “trackchaser”. I trackchase. Before you discovered my site had you ever heard of trackchasing? Maybe not? So….what the heck is trackchasing? Sit back, take a read and you’ll be an expert on my hobby of trackchasing when you’re finished. Here’s my best explanation on what trackchasing is to me. Trackchasing is a three-pronged hobby. I’m a racing fan. I love to travel. I love to analyze opportunities to get the most out of everything while saving time and money. Trackchasing fills the need for all of the above. The racing part of my trackchasing has me trying to see wheel to wheel auto racing at as many different racetracks as I can all over the world. Yes, all over the world. So far things are going pretty well. As this is written, I’ve seen racing in 85 countries at more than 2,500 tracks. As a matter of fact, I’ve seen racing at more tracks than anyone else in the world. Equally important to me are the things I get to see and experience over the “long and dusty trackchasing trail”. I call these adventures “Trackchasing Tourist Attractions”. You won’t want to miss my “Trackchasing Tourist Attractions” page. Here’s the link: Trackchasing Tourist Attractions or my “Sports Spectating Resume” page, Sports Spectating Resume on my website at www.randylewis.org. I live in southern California. That’s probably the most inconvenient location in the country for seeing tracks in the U.S. Most of the racetracks in the U.S. are located well over 1,000 miles from where I live. As a matter of fact, my average trip covers 5,000 miles and more. I take 35-40 of those trips each season. In any given year I will travel well over 200,000 miles, rent more than 50 cars, and stay in more than 150 hotel rooms. I get the chance to meet people all over the world. With trackchasing trips to 85 countries and counting just getting the chance to experience so many other cultures, spend time in their homes and meet their friends is a huge reward for being in this hobby. I am indebted to several of these folks for their help and friendship. It takes a good deal of planning to do the above and not spend my entire retirement portfolio. I enjoy the challenge, the travel and every other aspect of “trackchasing”. In reality, my trackchasing hobby is a lot like being with the carnival. I breeze into town, stay a little while and then head on down the road. I’ve tried to tell you what the trackchasing hobby is to me. Now I will show you what trackchasing is to me in pictures and music. If you watch just one YouTube video this year, this is the one to watch. You will see how a simple trackchasing trip takes me a long way from my environment in California and most importantly not just in miles. My hobby is about seeing and experiencing the things that most folks walk right past. Check this out. It might just make your day. Trackchasing….this is exactly why I do it Today’s adventure was one more of the 2,000 trips that have taken me up, down and around the proverbial long and dusty trackchasing trail. If you would like to see where I’ve been and experience those adventures here’s the link: If you’ve got a question, comment or whatever please leave it at the bottom of this report. It’s very easy to do. Or you can visit me on Facebook. Thanks! FOREWORD Saturday, September 14, 2019. Last Sunday, September 8, 2019, I trackchased at the Merrittville Speedway in Thorold, Ontario, Canada. This Sunday, September 15, 2019, I trackchased at the Mosquito Speedway (above) in Nolalu, Ontario, Canada. Years from now when trackchasing historians are analyzing my results they’re going to see that the Merrittville Speedway figure 8 track was lifetime track # 2,589 and that the Mosquito Speedway was lifetime track #2,590. They will figure that even though the tracks were seen a week apart that I must have remained in Ontario for the week in a lakeside cottage relaxing and doing just a bit of fishing. That was not exactly the case. After the Merrittville Speedway race, I drove back to Detroit and caught a flight on Monday over to Los Angeles, California. Then on Tuesday I had lunch and saw a movie with my good buddy George Robertson. That evening I took Carol to, “Taco Tuesday” as I normally do when I’m home. Then on Wednesday evening, I joined up with our son J.J. to see our Los Angeles Angels play the Cleveland Indians. On Thursday I met with a carpenter in the hopes of fixing a water leak at our modest seaside cottage. On every day during the week, I power walked for a minimum of 4 miles covering more than 20 miles Monday through Friday. I wouldn’t call this a busy week. I would simply call it a normal week. I’ve been writing my Trackchaser Reports since about the time I saw lifetime track #430. When this weekend wraps up I will have seen races at 2,590 tracks. Yes, I’ve been writing my reports for a good long time. In 99.9% of those reports, the story begins when I leave the house bound for the track and finishes up when I pull into the driveway after the trackchasing trip is finished. On Saturday morning both Carol and I left that same modest seaside cottage bound for the Los Angeles International airport. I was ultimately headed to the Mosquito Speedway in Nolalu, Ontario, Canada. Carol was not. With the above being a true paragraph we left for LAX. However, we left separately. Carol in her Randy Lewis Racing Richardson-Vicks sponsored Lexus 2014 Lexus RX 350 and I in my Carol Lewis owned MFunds sponsored 2013 Lexus RX 350. From this point, the logistics would get just a little bit complicated. We were planning on meeting our son J.J., who is a captain for a large commercial airline, at LAX. However, at the last minute, his flight was canceled due to a mechanical problem. He was coming from Newark, New Jersey. With the cancellation, there was no way he could get to Southern California in time to meet us at LAX or to drive with us to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. That was a bummer. Carol and I needed to take two cars to the airport so that she would have a car to drive home after the Rose Bowl encounter. I would have a car to drive home after visiting the Mosquito Speedway. We do this kind of, “vehicle juggling” from time to time. Without J.J.’s involvement, we would not be parking Carol’s car at his house. We would have to park her car on the street at LAX. The one big problem with that idea was that only two-hour metered parking was available at a reasonable price. At the same time, I would be parking my car in my fully sponsored LAX World Parking garage. I wouldn’t see my car again until after I had returned from Canada. We have an excellent trackchasing sponsorship from the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card. They have an affiliation with Priority Pass. We benefit from our relationship with both the Chase Sapphire Reserve and Priority Pass. I rarely share the financial details of any of my trackchasing sponsorships. Those are meant to be confidential dealings. Today I will make an exception because I know you might like to understand some of the behind the scenes details of my trackchasing operation. The folks over at the Chase Sapphire Reserve group have given Carol and I just a bit more than $10,000 U.S. to spend in airport restaurants, private airport lounges and just travel in general. If $10,000 seems like a lot to you I’m in full agreement. In order to take full advantage of the opportunity to get that $10,000 in sponsorship money Carol and I would be making stops at five different restaurants and airport lounges this morning. The process of doing that was just a little bit complicated. To begin with, we would clear airport security in terminal two and visit the Virgin Airlines Clubhouse. There we relaxed with coffee and bagels amongst other things. From the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse, we would leave terminal two and clear airport security again in terminal one for breakfast at Rock & Brews. Rock & Brews (above) is sort of a sports bar. They serve some very good food although at times their service is a bit spotty. We enjoyed our meal. We had $56 to spend at Rock & Brews so we certainly wouldn’t go hungry. However, the clock was ticking. I now had to walk about a mile to where Carol’s car was parked on the street. While I did that Carol was heading over to the Tom Bradley international terminal and once again clearing airport security. I put another two bucks in the meter and walked the same mile back to the airport. The weather was warm today. At the Rose Bowl, the temperature would max out at 100°. The LAX airport is located adjacent to the Pacific ocean. It’s always a little cooler there but it was still warm today. Once at the Tom Bradley international terminal, I joined up with Carol for lunch at P.F. Chang’s Chinese restaurant (above). Since we had just eaten at Rock & Brews we took most of our Chinese food order to go. Then we walked down the hallway and spent some time in the Korean Airlines Lounge. The Korean lounge doesn’t open until 1 p.m. for Priority Pass users. Folks begin to line up a little before 1 p.m. because these are the kinds of folks who like to max out with these programs! It’s not for everyone. Sometimes the line can be 50 people long or more. This simply tells me what people are willing to do when they are taking advantage of their own, “sponsorships”. The Korean Airlines Lounge is very upscale. They serve lots of hot food choices, beer, wine and alcohol. Normally I don’t have too much time to spend at the lounge but when I do it’s a very relaxing opportunity. From the Korean Airlines Lounge, we walked over from the Tom Bradley terminal in terminal four through terminal five to get to terminal six. In terminal six we entered the Point The Way Café. Here Carol and I would have our final, “meal” today at LAX. However, when we arrived at the Point The Way Café I noticed that I didn’t have my Chase Sapphire credit card. I had left it back at P.F. Chang’s! This all meant I needed to return to the Tom Bradley terminal and then make a return walk back to where Carol’s car was parked because the meter had now expired. Carol would place our lunch order at Point The Way and then get it to go. I would now drive Carol’s car back to LAX and pick her up. We both had enough food, now safely tucked in a large ice-cold cooler, for the balance of our week. I looked at my Health app on my iPhone 7. It told me that I had already walked 7 miles from the time our adventure started in LAX this morning until I had picked up Carol. This meant that I could easily surpass 8 miles for the day and get two credits against my trackchasing aerobic exercise goal. Now we were off to the Rose Bowl, driving through downtown Los Angeles, for tonight‘s 5 p.m. start between the UCLA Bruins and the #5 ranked Oklahoma Sooners. I see lots of sports events. If you notice most of my sporting events outside of racing are at the “big-time” of sporting spectaculars. I’m not much of a minor leaguer. It’s always fun to be at the “the big game”. Since our son J.J. is a UCLA graduate and booster of the athletic program we were going to get some very special treatment at this game. First of all, we had his toll transponder which got us from LAX over to the Rose Bowl as quick as humanly possible. When we arrived we had special preferred parking at the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl is a very special American sporting venue. It’s been around for a long time. The Rose Bowl’s seating capacity is 92,542. When you can go to the big game like we were seeing today and park within 100 yards or so of the entrance to the Rose Bowl you’re doing pretty well. Once at the Rose Bowl we had special tickets to the “Chancellors Tailgate” party. This was an event in a huge tent that offered free food and drink including an open bar. The only drawback to the event was that it was so warm today, reaching a temperature of 100°. It wasn’t all that comfortable anywhere even if you were at the chancellor’s tailgate party! We were able to meet up with our good buddy Ann Forkey (above left), who is both a P&G and UCLA alum. She’s a huge sports fan and follows the Bruins at home games as well as on the road. Carol and I also go to quite a few UCLA basketball and football road contests. When all of the eating and drinking had been done we ventured over to our seats. Mind you today a big and famous sports school like UCLA was playing the Oklahoma Sooners who are fifth-ranked in the country in football. Oklahoma has been a major power and national champion in football since the 1950s. We had seats on the 43-yard line and just 13 rows from the field. For us, it was almost like going to a high school game and yet we were amongst fans in a stadium that could house 92,000. So, how did UCLA do against the vaunted Oklahoma Sooners? By the way we went down to Norman, Oklahoma for last year’s UCLA-Oklahoma football game. I think at this stage my report is getting a little bit longer than I expected so I’ll just suggest that you Google the results. With the game well in hand Carol and I left the Rose Bowl at the end of the third quarter. We were motivated by the fact that I had a 10:15 p.m. airplane ride from Los Angeles to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I really didn’t want to miss that plane. I didn’t. After Carol dropped me off she headed back to our modest seaside cottage. In only about 36 hours I would be returning to LAX, hopefully, one more track added to my lifetime list. THE RACING Mosquito Speedway – Nolalu, Ontario, Canada Sunday, September 14, 2019 The flight from Los Angeles to Toronto was a quick four hours. Whenever you fly from the west to east you are likely to have tailwinds. I landed in Toronto at about 5 a.m. Clearing border control was fast and easy. I had just enough time to stop in the Plaza Premium lounge, another of my Priority Pass sponsorship affiliates. There I dined on an egg quiche, sausage patties and O.J. It was a nice place to spend some time out of the normal hustle and bustle of a big airport like Toronto. However, even though I had flown all night there wasn’t gonna be much time for rest quite yet. At 8 a.m. I had a flight from Toronto to Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. I think I’ve been in just about every commercial airport in the United States. I’ve been to quite a few in Canada as well but I don’t think I’ve ever flown into Thunder Bay. From Toronto, this was a two-hour flight. Thunder Bay is in a somewhat remote location relative to major commercial airports. Thunder Bay is a six-hour drive from Minneapolis and a fifteen-hour drive from Toronto. It’s an eight-hour drive from Winnipeg. Nope. There aren’t any major commercial airports anywhere near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Nevertheless, Thunder Bay itself has a very nice and modern airport. It’s not that large but then it doesn’t need to be. I had reserved a car in advance with Enterprise Rent-A-Car. I hardly ever rent from Enterprise. For this rental, I used Costco Travel. Enterprise was willing to rent me a car with unlimited kilometers for just $18 for the day. Did I get a rundown junker on its last legs? No, I did not. I was given a Cadillac SUV for the princely sum of $18 for my 24-hour rental. Remember, I don’t wanna buy cheap things cheap I wanna buy good things cheap. I had reserved a hotel in advance using Booking.com. Actually I used Kayak.com, which surveys all kinds of travel companies including Booking.com and then recommends that one company with the best price. I would be staying at the Night’s Inn Motor Hotel. I chose this motel based upon two things. First, it was ultra-cheap. My stay would only cost $38 U.S. plus tax. I couldn’t recall when I had stayed in a hotel for $38 a night in the past several years. However, I would never have stayed in a $38 motel if it didn’t come with a very high customer rating. The Night’s Inn Motor Hotel had a good rating. That was its saving grace. The motel was priced $20-$30 cheaper than its nearest competition and folks like the place. You’ve heard me say that I don’t want to buy cheap things cheap I want to buy good things cheap. The Night’s Inn Motor Hotel was an example of buying something that was sort of cheap yet still a decent product. I can do that once in a while but I prefer to buy good things cheap. Today’s racing at the Mosquito Speedway was scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. I figured I could get over to the Nights Inn Motor Hotel by 11 a.m. That way I could get a quick 90-minute nap in. Booking.com told me the hotel allowed people to check-in at 11 a.m. That seemed both unusual and a little bit odd. Hotels just don’t have policies like that. Nevertheless, it was good news for me. When I walked into the hotel office there was a gentleman seated at the desk. He looked to be just a little bit country. The man looked up at me. When I look at him he reminded me a lot of my grandfather. In point of fact, he was probably younger than I was. Nevertheless, he looked like my grandfather in the latter years of his life. I mentioned that I wanted to check into my room early if that was possible. He grumbled about Booking.com always promising guests that they could check-in at 11 a.m. when that actually was the CHECK-OUT time for the previous night’s guest. He told me that normal check-in time was 3 p.m. I sympathized with his plight with Booking.com. It’s always good to sympathize with other’s complaints when they hold your future in their hands. Then I mentioned that I had flown all night and was really looking to getting in a quick little nap before going over to the racetrack. Somewhat surprisingly to me, his rough exterior turned mellow at the mention of my going to the Mosquito Speedway. He told me that he could give me a room right away! That was great news. He gave me the key to room 236. I pulled out my credit card to pay for my room. The clerk told me that wasn’t needed. We would settle up later. Without any identification or physical means of payment, I had now secured my key to the room and could take my nap. If this is the way the hotel manager treated everyone else I could see how they got such a high rating from their past guests. After walking 7 miles before I ever left LAX yesterday morning and then being out in 100° heat at the Rose Bowl and then flying for six hours overnight on two different airplanes a nap was pretty much a requirement. I probably should have showered as well but I didn’t have the energy. Today the temperature was going to max out in the low 60s in Nolalu, Ontario, home to the Mosquito Speedway. For some reason, I thought I needed to wear blue jeans in weather like that. Wrong! I would have been much more comfortable wearing shorts, which is why I wear shorts more than 99.92% of the year. The Mosquito Speedway has a very unique name. Carol often says, “mosquitoes love you”. That is true. She says that and they do. I’ll be getting bit by mosquitoes much sooner than anybody else. Luckily, there were no mosquitoes today at Mosquito Speedway. They only race one weekend a year at this track. That schedule and it’s remote location makes it just a little bit difficult for a trackchaser to get there especially one who lives in Southern California. As far as I know, I am the only trackchaser to ever visit the Mosquito Speedway. That is the case with lots of tracks. I was originally going to go to a race up in the state of Washington today. However, their weather forecast was dismal. The Mosquito Speedway was my back up plan. I had already decided that Washington was out and Mosquito was in. That’s when I got an email message from a fellow by the name of Mark Stewart (above). Mark is an ice racer. He races at Thunder Bay during the winter. Mark knew that I had visited the Thunder Bay ice races back in 2014 with my good buddy Ed Esser. Although we didn’t meet at that time Mark had messaged me a couple of times over the years about the opportunities at the Mosquito Speedway. This was the first year that I could take him up on his offer. Mark and I messaged another few times before we actually get a chance to meet at the track today. He told me he would talk to the promoters and see if he could get the fees for a pit pass waived. He did just that saving me $30 Canadian. His generosity gave me the opportunity to get a close-up and personal view of all of the racing competitors today. The Mosquito Speedway is out in the boonies. I could see where the track gets its name! The last couple of miles were on wet dirt roads. They had gotten a lot of rain last night and over the past day or two. The Mosquito Speedway wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. What was I expecting. I didn’t think this event would be a big deal. I wasn’t expecting a big crowd. The place was absolutely jampacked! Cars were parked along the sides of the entry road and all over the grounds of the track itself. I immediately headed to the pit area. There I met a couple of ladies named Christina and Terry. I hope I’ve gotten those names correct and spelled them properly. If not, please accept my apologies. They had already, “gotten the word” from Mark Stewart. They were happy to give me a pit pass. These gals were very friendly representatives of the Mosquito Speedway. I signed a release and then drove into the ultra-crowded and soggy almost muddy pit area. There was a guy parking cars for the track in the pit area. I know you’ve seen parking attendants on the spectator side of a track’s parking lot but have you really ever seen that in the pit area? He backed me into a space where if I needed to I could get out easily. On the other hand, dozens maybe hundreds of cars were tandem parked meaning that if they needed to leave the track they would be blocked him from all sides. I didn’t want to have to deal with that. Mark told me that he was driving a red car #17 ice racer/hornet in today’s races. Mark was easy to find and easy to talk to. We sent spent several minutes chatting. He told me that he loves getting my Trackchasers Reports. However, he doesn’t always time to read them. Mark said he has established a special, “folder” so that someday in the future when he has some downtime, he can go through and read everything that I’ve written over the years. I think Carol operates on pretty much the same system. Given the fact that Mark was racing today and looked to be his only crewmember, it was nice that he had some time to spend talking with me. When we wrapped up our conversation I took a tour of the pit area. The ground was unbelievably soggy, almost like walking on your bedroom mattress. Of course, you would never walk on your bedroom mattress right? The main attraction today was a class called the “B” modifieds. There were about 40 of them. They also had a good looking street stock class and the ice racing/hornet class. I loved seeing a ‘57 Chevy (above) racing with the street stocks. I watched several heat races from the pit area. They did have a small grandstand in the pits but it was so crowded it was standing room only. I figured for the feature races I would go over to the spectator side and watch from there. The pits were packed with people and racecars. At intermission I did exactly that. It was good to get my car out of the pit area and over into a strategic spot on the spectator side. From there when the final checkered flag flew on the “B” modified main event I could be one of the first people out of the speedway. I did exactly that. The moving the car part of the plan worked out really well. However, the spectator grandstands were completely full. Lots of people were either watching the race standing at the fence or seated in their lawn chairs near the fence. I would have to stand. I never did sit down for a single second to see any of the racing today. I’m not exactly sure how long the Mosquito Speedway has been in their existing location. I think the track announcer might have said its predecessor, the Riverview Speedway, was in another location from where the Mosquito Speedway is located today. I was told that they have been running this once a year special for about the past six years. According to the book, the History of America’s Speedways – Past and Present written by Allan Brown, Mosquito Speedway first began operation in 1994. The track began in a farmer’s field. There is also a listing for a Riverview Speedway located in Thunder Bay that ran from 1967 until 1995. I guess that is the history of Mosquito Speedway! I thought they did a good job with the racing today. Overall there were very few yellow flags. They did have a couple of red flags for drivers who flipped during the races. One of the ice racing/hornets flipped all by himself in the middle of turns three and four. Another modified driver slid off turn three and went over the bank. I could see him flipping into the woods! I thought Mark Stewart (above – red hornet) did an excellent job in his feature race. His car looked really quick. Mark passed the driver who beat him in his heat race. Then another driver who had crashed in his heat and repaired his car came motoring on past Mark to win the main. It looked like the driver had the far superior car. The 23-car “B” modified feature was the last event of the day. This was Sunday afternoon racing. For some reason, I have always really enjoyed stock car racing on a Sunday afternoon. Nowadays I don’t get a chance to see many of those but today I did. I was able to see an excellent race. Often times a 23-car stock car race will have a ton of yellow flag delays. Today they only had two or three stoppages over the race distance of fifty laps. There were lots of long periods of racing with the leaders encountering lapped cars quite a bit. It was a really good race. I strongly recommend you take a look at my video to see what today’s racing looked like. AFTER THE RACES As planned when the final checkered flag flew on the last race of the day I was one of the first people out of the speedway. I hopped in the Enterprise Car Rental Racing Cadillac SUV and hightailed it back to Thunder Bay. I was probably out of the track by about 6 p.m. It was still daylight. I checked on Thunder Bay tourist attractions. According to TripAdvisor the number one attraction in all of Thunder Bay was the Terry Fox Memorial. I had seen a similar memorial in Newfoundland and Labrador. Terry Fox was a young man who contracted cancer. He lost his leg due to the disease. At that point he decided that he would try to run across to Canada to bring attention to cancer and it’s eradication. Unfortunately, Terry didn’t make it all the way across the country before he passed away. However, he was a champion to the folks of Canada and others around the world. Then on the way back to my hotel I noticed that I only walked about 2 1/2 miles for the day. There was about a half-hour of light left. I stopped at a nearby park, Centennial Park. This park had all kinds of trails going through the woods. It also included a very picturesque damn at the Current River. I took the opportunity there to finish off my 4 miles of power walking for the day. Folks, I am an opportunist! On the way back to the motel I stopped at a local KFC restaurant. This wouldn’t normally be worthy of note but the older gray-haired lady and her sidekick who was cooking up the chicken were their own comedy team. They entertained me while I downed my chicken strips with mashed potatoes and gravy. It was now dark and approaching 9 p.m. I returned to the Night’s Inn Motel. The same gentleman who had checked me in at 11 a.m. this morning was still working the front desk. I can’t exactly recall but I still don’t think he ever looked at my ID or took my credit card. My payment had been made through Booking.com. We got to chatting just a little bit as I am wont to do. You probably could have knocked me over with a feather when this older gentleman, who looked like he might not have ever been outside of Thunder Bay, told me that he and some of his buddies went to Knoxville to see the sprint cars race some eight years ago. He was pretty impressed with the visit. Nice guy. I wished him well. I got to bed at about 9 p.m. I would have nearly six hours of overnight sleep in the motel. I had gotten 90 minutes of sleep in room 236 at 11 a.m. this morning so I almost got eight hours of sleep. Monday, September 15, 2019. I would begin my day in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. I would end my day at our modest seaside cottage in San Clemente, California. I boarded a flight leaving Thunder Bay this Sunday morning at 5 a.m. The airport was about 20 minutes from my motel. In order to make sure I had time to shower, get dressed and drive over there I set my wake-up call (iPhone generated) at 3 a.m. Eastern time. By the way, I was impressed with the airport in Thunder Bay. Folks, let’s think about this for just a moment. I know that some of you in your heart of hearts would really like to be a trackchaser. Maybe you could do it and maybe you couldn’t. My wake-up call came this morning at 3 a.m. That was midnight West Coast time. California is part of the West Coast and I am part of California. I was getting up at midnight West Coast time where I will be finishing my day. Now do you really want to become a trackchaser and do it the way I do it? My plane landed in Toronto at 6:50 a.m. I figured I would have just enough time to stop by at one of my airline club sponsors for a quick mini breakfast before my 8 a.m. standby flight from Toronto to Los Angeles. However, the walking distance inside the airport was long. During that walk I crossed the international border control checkpoint from Canada into the U.S. All of that took longer than expected. The flight I was trying to standby on in order to get to Los Angeles was overbooked with paying passengers by one. I was number six on the standby list. Nevertheless, I made it. I always count on people to miss their flights! Granted I did have a middle seat and never got up once during the entire nearly six-hour flight. I watched movies, napped and worked on my Trackchaser Report. Once I landed in Los Angeles I did exactly what Carol and I had done on Saturday morning. First I went to the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse airline lounge, then Rock and Brews followed by P.F. Chang’s (above). Then I stopped at the Korean Airlines lounge and finally over to the Point the Way Café. I’m trying to meet my goal of getting $10,000 or more in sponsorship rewards for the 12-month period that began when I got my Chase Sapphire Reserve card. I’m close but I’m not quite there yet. I don’t go on very many trackchasing adventures to see one track in North America. However, the Mosquito Speedway was special. They only run once a year. I didn’t want to give up the UCLA – Oklahoma football game for a visit to the Mosquito Speedway. I didn’t want to give up a visit to the Mosquito Speedway for a trip to the UCLA – Oklahoma football game. However, by, “pushing the schedule” I was able to do both. It’s amazing what can be done when one is motivated. Good afternoon from the Mosquito Speedway in Nolalu, Ontario, Canada Randy Lewis – 85 countries – 2,590 tracks. Ontario The Steeltown Province This afternoon I saw racing at my 70th lifetime track in the Steeltown province, yes, the Steeltown province. Thanks for reading about my trackchasing, Randy Lewis World’s #1 Trackchaser Peoria Old Timers Racing Club (P.O.R.C.) Hall of Fame Member Ontario sayings: “Good thing you deked around that mud puddle!” Derived from “decoy,” to deke is technically a hockey term meaning to move quickly around an opponent by changing direction or speed. JUST THE FACTS LIFETIME TRACKCHASER COMPARISONS The three most important trackchasing comparisons to me are: Total lifetime tracks seen Total “trackchasing countries” seen Lifetime National Geographic Diversity results Total Lifetime Tracks There are no trackchasers currently within 725 tracks of my lifetime total. Don’t blame me. Total Trackchasing Countries The nearest trackchasing competitor has seen racing in 30 fewer countries compared to my lifetime total. Current lifetime National Geographic Diversity results That’s all folks! Official end of the RLR – Randy Lewis Racing Trackchaser Report Click on the link below to see the video production from the racing action today. Click on the link below for a photo album from today’s trackchasing day. You can view the album slide by slide or click on the “slide show” icon for a self-guided tour of today’s trackchasing adventure. Mosquito Speedway…is that a “thing”….it was a very interesting trip! 
