Hey everyone, yea I know I've been lax on updating our blog, but I've been doing a lot of traveling lately and just haven't had the time to type at you, but here I am on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Charlotte, listening to the Houston Audiocast with the windows open and thinking of you.

Where to start...

As you probably know, if you're a regular here or you read Matt Hagan's blog, after the Schumacher teams tested at Palm Beach Int'l Raceway before Gainesville they had a day off, and our former crew chief Tommy Delago put together a fishing trip with my good friend and our team cook, "Captain Edzo" Ed Preston.

So bright and early that Tuesday morning Matt Hagan, Tommy, Ed McCulloch, Ron Capps, Glenn Husar and Ronnie Thompson met up with Ed at the Sailfish Marina, hopped on a 51-foot Buddy Davis set up for deep sea fishing named the Barrister, and went out into the south Atlantic in search of big game fish.

How'd that work out? Not too good. Ed described it as a "half day boat ride." He continued: "We ran the snot out of the boat, out the Palm Beach Inlet, up to Jupiter then doubled back to Boynton without a nibble. We had live bait, dead bait, all sorts of stuff hanging out the back but nothing. All we did is have a good time, burn some diesel and drag bait around the ocean."

Now even though they were out on the ocean having a good time, "Ace" kept up with the racing world and burned down the battery on his cell phone, not a bad place to conduct business, huh?

Ed also wanted to mention that "Ace" also picked up the lunch tab, which was rumored to be in the hundreds of dollars.

Now let's talk about Gilby. He's been keeping busy at not only TEMCO but also traveling to Wilkes Barre, Pa., and Cincinnati on consecutive weekends with the Trick Tank Arenacross team, and let me tell you this, they came, they saw, and they conquered.

Jake swept both the 85cc and Super Mini classes at both races that earned him unprecedented double championships in both the Midwest and Eastern regions and invites to the prestigious U.S. Open in Las Vegas in October. The other members of the team — Justin Hopson, Tate Barr and Jim Chester — also qualified for Vegas, so now all four of our team riders will race at the "big show."

Me, I've been on the road a lot lately. A few trips to Florida, a lap to Philly (boy I hate that airport), and a visit to the nostalgia Funny Car Mecca of the East Coast, Bob Rosetty's "Funny Farm," which I'll tell you about in an up-coming blog, have kept me WFO.