Our Travel Adventures

Homestead/Miami Speedway Chump Car Race New Years Eve 2014-15 Proud Dad with Derek Thompson Video Overview: MIAMI – Homestead-Miami Speedway is ringing in the New Year the only way it knows how – by racing cars on track for a 24-hour race. The ChumpCar World Series was held at Homestead-Miami Speedway December 31, 2014, through January 1, 2015. ChumpCar is North America’s home for real, affordable and competitive road racing. ChumpCar was developed for gear-heads; for people who love driving and driving fast. The cars will run in an endurance race lasting 24 hours.  The competition gets underway at 12:01 am on December 31 and concludes at 12:01 am on January 1.  Registration is at 11:00 am – 3:00 pm on Tuesday, December 30. Similar to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, ChumpCar places emphasis on racing. Based on the official rules, participants can only enter a car with a point calculation of 500. If the point calculation of the vehicle is less than 500, ...

12/5/2014 Spent the night at Everglades National Park on our return trip from Key West Florida. We are on our way to Biscayne National Park. We drove by Homestead Miami Speedway to see where Derek, my Son, is going to race December 31st this year in a 24 hour Chump Car Race with Crank Yankers Racing Team. Biscayne National Park History and Culture: Tequesta Indian man free-dives for conch from a dugout canoe. A Bahamian woman watches the sunset across a tidal creek after a hard day's work. A ship grinds against a knife-edged reef while a violent wind howls. Wealthy industrialists gather under a shady palm to toss horseshoes. The parade of human history in Biscayne National Park spans 10,000 years. Although Biscayne National Park was established for its natural history, signs of people and the many ways they have used these lands and waters is everywhere. Nearly every island in the park has evidence of use by native peoples. Underwater, shipwrecks rest as silent ...