So, Brian and I left the house on 10/24/2014 at 5:45 in the morning. I had pretty much packed the truck up the night before except for our bags and the food. As I have done for many of the road trips, I packed a cooler full of food so that our stops are fuel and potty breaks only. I had an assortment of good prerace food and some good stuff for Brian too. Our trip out was pretty uneventful and we got the conference center in Florence, Alabama and I collected my race packe