Anza-Borrego Cruise

Saturday was the Cruise to the Anza-Borrego Desert Sate Park. We were supposed to have at least 10 cars and about 17 people, and I had convinced Angela to come since other wives and girlfriends would be there. Well we showed up at the Marie Calendars about 15 minutes late just to be the first car there; it had been overcast with a few sprinkles on the way down from Ridgecrest so I figured we might be down a few cars. About five minutes later two more cars, one of them the organizer, arrived. Apparently at the shop where the group from LA was meeting it was a downpour, "The weather in Orange looked like we were possibly about to experience a 100 year flood" was one of the comments on the forums. After we ordered breakfast a fourth car came and that ended up being the last peron to show up; however his car failed to start after a trip to Autozone for coolant (bad battery I think). So five of us (in three cars) went on the cruise. The weather was pretty nice the whole rest of the day, driving twisty backroads through a bunch of small towns. We ended in San Ysabel at the casino for the $5 prime rib and some gambling (we got a free $15 each on a card as a promotion and we ended up keeping $15 of that in the end, so no loss :) ). After that was over Angela and I headed to San Diego for the night since we were so close and stayed with her brother and drove home the next day. A good little cruise, about 600 mi round trip with the driving we did in San Diego.

In the New Year

We have been busy. We spent last weekend in San Diego, the weekend before that in LA doing some shopping and getting the car tuned. This weekend there will be a cruise starting in LA and going out to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, then who knows where. I think it will end somewhere near San Diego. Two weeks in February we will be in LA for a class that Angela is taking for work. The weekend between those is Valentines weekend so we might go somewhere for that. And for work I will be doing so much training next month that I will only be working on my project 7 days over the whole month.

Random pictures from last weekend:

Holidays

The holidays were wirlwind of travel for us. First it was off to Albuquerque to spend an evening (20th) with friends:Then, the next morning we headed up to Angela's parent's cabin:
It snowed a little while we were there.
That's the road coming out...the paved road. We had to drive to Santa Fe the day before to get the plow truck and we were pushing snow with the front bumper of the Trail Blazer down this road. We also did some tubing while we were there, everyone quit after I did a spectacular dismount...I don't know why. On the 24th we headed down to Silver for Christmas with my family. It snowed some there also, but it was a blowing snow that made the road really slick. We got a tow dolly while we were there to tow Angela's car back to California. We got back on the 28th at about midnight and I went to work the next day. It was a long but fun trip, around 2000 miles of highway.