This might be interesting to some of the people who read this
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/7_on_your_side&id=6715188
The shop they show is the actual machineshop that I work in.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Valentine'e Day weekend
Happy Valentines day to everyone ( a little late now). We didn't do too much this weekend, relaxed mostly. Well I did anyway. We did go over to Kernville for Whiskey Flats days (think "western fair"). It was alright and gave us something to do.
Sorry about the smile I have, I was still laughing about the picture I had taken right before this. We took some pictures of Lake Isabella on the way back.
Sorry about the smile I have, I was still laughing about the picture I had taken right before this. We took some pictures of Lake Isabella on the way back.
LA
Last weekend Angela had her class in LA and we will be headed back there again next weekend for her to finish the class. So I just messed around while she was in class. I went to a mall and market the first day, they were pretty boring. We went to dinner that night with the 3rd Gen group and I got an idea of where to go on Sunday. The Peterson Automotive Museum.
It was pretty cool. I'll have to go back again after they rotate the displays out. It sounds like they have enough cars to completely change the entire museum.
Ok, who wants to go 183 mph in a 1960 Plymouth?
It was pretty cool. I'll have to go back again after they rotate the displays out. It sounds like they have enough cars to completely change the entire museum.
Ok, who wants to go 183 mph in a 1960 Plymouth?
Monday, February 2, 2009
A shorter trip
This was the first weekend since at least Christmas, maybe Thanksgiving, that we did not plan a long overnight trip somewhere. It was really nice, we decided to have a picnic in the mountains on Saturday. We were headed for the Whitney Portals, but decided to go to Kennedy Meadows on the way (shorter trip). We first drove to Chimney Creek (I think) campgrounds and ate our lunch and found some pine cones
and then we drove on up to Kennedy Meadows where there was still some snow on the ground. We explored the area for a little while and left. If the road had not been closed we might have made a loop over to Kernville, but we will save that for another day.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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.
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.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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:
Random pictures from last weekend:
Friday, January 2, 2009
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.
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.
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