We are new members of the NCT Camping Club.  It is a Masonic group.  They meet one week-end a month at various campgrounds around our area.

This meeting in Concord was the State Rally.  The temperatures for this rally varied a great deal - 90 on Thursday, 75 on Friday, and 53 & raining on Saturday.  The Fleetwood RV Resort is a large campground connected to  Tom Johnson RV Sales   and also the Lowe's Motor Speedway at Charlotte.  Interstate 85, exit 49 near Charlotte, Concord area. This was our first time there.  They have full hookups.    On Thursday we had a pot luck dinner with everybody bringing a covered dish.  On Friday we had a hotdog dinner.  On Saturday we had a catered breakfast and a catered dinner.  Fellowship was great.  Lots of people enjoyed playing card games. The campground has a huge shelter with picnic tables. 

It is also about a mile from one of the largest malls in the area. Concord Mills is the name of the mall.  There must be 300 stores there. We did not see even half of them. 

 We did take a tour of the Lowe's Speedway. We had never done this either.  Going around the race track at 90 mph on a damp track, in a 12 passenger van, with a lady driver was not exactly what I planned.  It has a 26 degree bank angle and you  sit  way leaned over at the top next to the wall.  It was an experience.  Lowe's paid $35 million dollars for a 10 year contract for their name to be used. It was formerly Charlotte Motor Speedway.  There are 10 families living in condos there.  Just think, they can watch all the races from the comfort of their own couch. When the condos were built they sold for $90,000. Today one is for sale at $525,000.  They have I think 1500 square feet.

Richard Petty has a company there that you can drive a race car around the track and/ or be driven by one of his drivers.
 

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