David and Kathy Moore are like any proud homeowners, surveying their neighborhood and preparing for an evening meal with neighbors as the sun begins to slip behind the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Except this isn’t any neighborhood and their home isn’t an average brick and mortar residence.
The Moores, of Henderson, N.C., were among more than 150 campers who rolled into Martinsville Speedway’s campground when it opened Saturday morning. That figure more than doubled on Sunday and will grow all week leading up to Sunday’s SUBWAY 500 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup race.
The Moores are part of a smaller group that gathers together twice a year in the Speedway’s campground.
“By next Sunday there will be 21 people and seven campers (trailers) in this group,” said David Moore.
The group sets up on the hillside overlooking the backstretch, cobbling its campers together to form a close neighborhood, sort of like a modern-day circling of wagons.
On Saturday, the Moores were set up on the hillside, along with couples from Roanoke, Raleigh and Franklinton, N.C. They were expecting a couple from West Virginia early Sunday and another couple from Mississippi soon thereafter.
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