Lazy River MX, Dalton Georgia

Sorry for the delay updating but we just travelled back from Georgia to the Hempens in Iowa.
Lazy River MX (Dalton, Georgia) was great. Josiah loved the track and called it his favourite to date.
We arrived at Lazy River MX on Thursday about 3pm. Not many people were around until Saturday. They must have heard it was going to rain all night Thursday and be a mud bath for Friday's practice. It wasn't too bad though once the first round of practice was done.
On Saturday Josiah raced his 85cc stock class and a non-qualifier unlimited 85 class for extra track time. Each class has 2 motos. He got 4 holeshots and 4 wins. Then on the Sunday he rode his modified class and again got 2 holeshots and 2 wins. So really you can't ask for more than that.
The highlight was racing a split start in Adam Cianciarulo's supermini class and not getting lapped! Adam was racing Zac Bell and what a treat to watch - that kid can ride.
Josiah made some friends. Matthew and his dad Pat who let us use their water blaster and Mitchell and Trevor (these 2 weren't riding as Mitchell had concussion a week or so back and Trevor may have broken his wrist on the first day).
On the Saturday a van pulled up right where we were pitted. The guy that got out was wearing a Dirt Bike Mike T-shirt like the one we have. Sure enough it was Max with his wife Pam and son Carson. We met them at a mx camp 2 years ago. I went to say hi and Max turned around and said "Natzkes!" So it was great to catch up with them. We may hook up again for the Georgia regional.

Then we packed up and headed south to Albany, Georgia. We stayed at Nico Izzi's track as Chris had arranged some training with Ronnie Tichenor. The other riders were Tristan and Cody Charbaneau (Josiah raced Tristan in 2008) and Cole Varty. It was a great time and Josiah got lots out of it. Mario and Betsy Izzi were very hospitable and they have a great place where they have riders there for one week to a year! Everyone comes in their RVs and hook up.

Yesterday after training we hit the road for the long trip back to Iowa. We left at 4pm and I stopped at midnight on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee. The traffic was stop start through Atlanta at 7pm! Then I started driving at 6am and got to the Hempens in Iowa at 2.30pm. We are glad to be back and thank the Lord for answered prayer as we had offers of help everywhere on our round trip of 3,017 miles (5.000 kms). The next few days is getting ready before we head up to the first regional qualifier at the Spring Creek pro track, Millville Minnesota (http://www.springcreekmx.com/).

Will update soon
Janine