Welcome back, blog faithful! Or, maybe it’s more appropriate to say “welcome back” to myself, since I’m the one that was gone for two weeks. Either way, after a two-week hiatus, I’m back in the saddle and strapped to my laptop today, with plenty of fun ground to cover. I mean that in both the figurative and literal sense. A lot happened, and I truly covered a lot of ground, on airplanes, sidewalks, subways, and cars. Planes, trains, and automobiles, for sure.

I wrote about this topic earlier this week, briefly, in a Facebook post. It’s hard to do much more than write about something briefly on Facebook, but at least it’s a good venue and platform for showing photos. The topic was this: Over the decades, too many people to count have asked me, “What’s your favorite track on the NHRA tour?” To be diplomatic, I’d usually respond with something like, “Oh gosh, there’s so many I like it’s impossible to pick just one.”

Welcome to Thursday Blog Day, the November 9, 2017 edition. Tomorrow, I will board a big metal tube with wings and miraculously fly from Minneapolis to Los Angeles while enjoying WiFi and lunch in seat 2D. I will get my rental car out at the National lot about a mile from the LAX terminal, then will drive to Pomona using the following directions, written here in pure SoCal “freeway speak.” I’ll take Sepulveda Ave. to the 105. The 105 to the 605. The 605 to the 10. Then I’ll exit at Fairplex Dr. and head to the hotel. I land around 4:00, so depending on L.A. traffic I could arrive at the hotel by 5:30, or conceivably around 10:30. You never know.

Hello again, blog faithful. Welcome to yet another Thursday Blog Day as we near the two-year mark for this version of my blog, after 10+ years over at NHRA.com. One week ago I was getting ready to fly to Las Vegas, and about to dive into a new book, “Bull In The Ring” by fellow St. Louis U. High alum Joe Castellano. It’s been a remarkably interesting week.