For the most part, the media workers within NASCAR get to travel to the track every weekend. They get to take in the sights, take in the views, and have the track feeling week after week. I have always wanted to travel the NASCAR circuit and something struck me after New Hampshire. I found myself disappointed that I wasn’t traveling to the next race when the weekend came around, and that proved to myself that traveling the circus show called NASCAR is something I could do.
After sitting home and reflecting on my weekend at New Hampshire, I thought about how everyone I met there would be going to the next track soon and that sadly, I would not be part of the entourage. I know that I could be doing that one day, but all I wanted at that moment was to do it now. Getting the chance to visit cities across the country every weekend seems like an awesome thing to do and it’s something I hope to do someday.
By traveling with the sport, I would be able to smell the rubber, fuel, and so much more, every week. Those aren’t just the smells of NASCAR; they’re the smells that inspire me to keep chasing my dream so I can come home to those smells at the race track every weekend.
What I really proved to myself after New Hampshire was that traveling the schedule is something I would want as part of my life. Since I desperately missed it after doing it once, I knew at that point, that doing it for about 36 weeks can be done and comfortable for me. That eagerness of being at the track will return in three short weeks when I go to Watkins Glen, but between now and then, all I want to do is be at my home away from home, the race track.
