When I joined Superpedestrian my only non-negotiable  requirement was a 4 day work week, an attempt to retain a small measure of my early retirement freedom to travel. Given ideal weather today, I decided to use my day off for a road trip. The destination I selected was Kent Falls State Park in Connecticut, a three hour drive from Concord. There I was treated to the waterfall for which the park is named, a series of drops covering 250 feet in total and accessible by a short but steep trail.

Realizing I was only 15 miles away, I decided to also visit Lime Rock Park,  a natural-terrain motorsport road racing venue.  My timing could not have been more fortunate.  Tomorrow is eEuroFest, New England’s premier European auto event hosted by eEuroparts.com. Today was an exclusive preview event for VIPs.  I knew none of this when I pulled up to the gate where an older gentleman mumbled something, handed me a waiver form on a clip board for my signature, and then waved me in. I followed the car ahead of me into the infield area where I parked in a queue of cars about a dozen deep.  A few minutes later I realized I was in line to take hot laps on the autocross track, a notion I entertained for a few more glorious moments.  I had borrowed Jeanine’s BMW X1 SUV for the day and it has a very compelling sports mode and option to shift manually.  All the other cars in line, however,  were low slung. fast looking exotics and the idea of sliding through the corners with my camera gear flying all over the place while trying to avoid colliding with the other adrenaline pumped “enthusiast” drivers seemed unwise.  Instead I parked nearby and settled for the pleasure of photographing these cars in action.

I stopped several more times during the remainder of my 340 mile (7.5 hour drive time) road trip and returned with a nice collection of images.