Well I’m back to my normal schedule that I maintain when the racing season begins. Which means I am writing my blogs in airports, on planes, and as we are driving down the road to get to the next event.
Right now I am on a plane heading back to Florida. I left the West Coast about 10 days ago heading for GEICO in Virginia Beach. This was the annual celebration. It was different than normal this year because of the visit from Warren Buffet. You see GEICO was one of the first businesses that Warren acquired. Apparently, he made a promise that if the GEICO Powersports division, which my motorcycle is a part of, reached a certain milestone, he would come to the office and serve Dairy Queen ice cream and sing a song to the employees. Why Diary Queen? Well, that is another holding of Berkshire Hathaway.
Meeting the goal, Mr. Buffet held true to his word and showed up with freezers full of Dilly Bars for everyone, and yes he sang a song while playing the ukulele. With the entire Powersports Virginia Beach GEICO family singing along with Mr. Buffet, we rocked the house.
He spent the day conversing with everyone and taking pictures, before his team boarded a jet and headed back to Washington D.C. We capped off the day by going out to dinner with all the GEICO Powersports motorsports "gang."
After the event Gary boarded a plane to head back to Indy, and I rode in the motorhome back to Florida with Doug and Debbie. We had to hurry back because I had a plane to catch in Florida heading to Ohio for the week. It was beautiful and 80 degrees when I left Florida and arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, around midnight to a “not very welcoming” 2 degrees. Arriving in the winter storm in the middle of the night also provided for an interesting drive back to the hotel as I witnessed quite a few cars sliding into the walls spinning and slipping across the lanes. No, I was not one of them, I was just a spectator.
My work in Ohio went well and I got quite a bit done before heading back to Florida on Friday. We had an appearance and autograph signing at Fort Myers (Fla.) Harley Davidson and another event on Saturday at Immokalee Regional Raceway! It was a motorcycle ride, combined with a burnout contest, Live band and in the evening, when it was cooler, a drag race. We had the GEICO gecko set up and handed out all the free “goodies” that we normally pass out when we test.
The plan is to stay here and start testing as we gear up to Gainesville for the Gators. I think I like that plan better than heading back to the cold of Ohio.
Well that’s all for now.