{"id":12745,"date":"2015-05-25T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=12745"},"modified":"2015-05-31T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T03:03:53","slug":"nascar-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=12745","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

No trip to North Carolina is complete without checking out the NASCAR Hall of Fame. As luck would have it, the NASCAR<\/a> Hall of Fame<\/a> just happened to be right next to the my hotel and the convention center. It was super convenient. And, the conference organizers rented out the whole facility for the evening for our “special event” during CS Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The highlight of the event for me was definitely getting this photo with NASCAR<\/a> legend Junior Johnson<\/a>, who was there promoting Midnight Moon<\/a> and signing autographs. <\/p>\n

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They were doing free tastings of Midnight Moon, handmade moonshine based on Junior Johnson’s family recipe. Despite all of the delicious varieties, I skipped the moonshine tasting in favor of getting a picture with Junior. I’m sure it’s delicious but Brian told me that it’s really strong and warned me to stay the away from it.<\/p>\n

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Here are a few more pictures from the NASCAR Hall of Fame<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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I’m really glad I had the opportunity to attend this conference because I don’t know if I would have ever seen the NASCAR Hall of Fame otherwise (it wasn’t on the bucket list) and also it was a super duper fantastic conference. (I’m sure I’ve mentioned it several times already but one of my favorite TED<\/a> speakers, Shawn Achor<\/a>, was our keynote speaker on the second day.)<\/p>\n

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CS Week rented the whole facility for our “special event” so we were free to explore every inch of the museum. It was awesome! I think the look on my face in this photo pretty much sums it up.<\/p>\n

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This is a racing simulator like none other. You get into real cars and race other people. Alex and I didn’t want to stand in the long line so we skipped it. <\/p>\n

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I heard it was really fun, though.<\/p>\n

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There was also a pit crew simulation. They had two stations set up so that you could compete with another group to see who could do it faster.<\/p>\n

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Back on the main level, there was a bluegrass band.<\/p>\n

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There was also lots and lots of food. There were food stations and bars at every level of the museum so you didn’t have to hungry.<\/p>\n

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I was in sensory overload so I missed taking pictures of the rest of the food but I had to take a picture of this one. As if bread pudding weren’t decadent enough. They made theirs with Krispy Kreme donuts!<\/p>\n

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Alex and I got some souvenir photos.<\/p>\n

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I’m not a huge NASCAR<\/a> fan but the NASCAR Hall of Fame<\/a> is a really cool museum. There were so many interactive things on every level. I couldn’t take a picture of everything. <\/p>\n

Brian was jealous about this part of the trip. I think he would have really enjoyed the NASCAR Hall of Fame<\/a>. We may have to go back to he can experience it.<\/p>\n

See you again soon, Charlotte!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No trip to North Carolina is complete without checking out the NASCAR Hall of Fame. As luck would have it, the NASCAR Hall of Fame just happened to be right next to the my hotel and the convention center. It was super convenient. And, the conference organizers rented out the whole facility for the evening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[262,21],"tags":[2448,2450,2452,2449],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12745"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12766,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions\/12766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}