HS Reunion

For the maybe 2 who read this and didn't know I went home for a week and went to my 10 year HS reunion. It was actually just a coincidence that it was at the end of the week that I went to visit my family. And yes, it was a month and a half ago...oops. And here is the picture I took at the reunion:Yes, I did drive the Trans Am on a 1500 mile trip through the hottest part of the US in the middle of Summer.

Others were just Sunsets and Fireworks.

Big Trees

Since I never wrote about it last time we went I'll post some pictures of the Giant Sequoias from this last weekend. It was just us and some friends and their dog.

A few more pictures

And from Trip 1

The Beach

That is exactly where we went a few weekends ago.
And we bought a body board and had a great time with that too.
5 picture slideshow.

Oh yes

215 HP, 1000 lbs...that'll do.

Drag Racing in the USA

Well, more than that. It was the 3rd annual LA Invasion Cruise/Show/Drag Race. It was great 4 days of fun as usual, the car did great, we stayed at a nice hotel and had a lot of good food.
Slide show 1
Slide show 2
Some of my pics

White water and tunnels

Last Friday I went white water rafting with the work group. We did two runs on the Kern River classes I-III, I don't have pictures - the CD's they sold were $60, so we passed. It lasted half the day, we ate at the local brewery after and then headed back to Ridgecrest. On the way the group in my truck discussed and decided to go to the Burro Schmidt Tunnel. Its pretty much explained in the picture below.Its located a ways south of Ridgecrest 8-10 miles down a dirt road, this one was a little more high speed then the ones in Death Valley.The wildflowers were also out along the route to and from the tunnel.

Wheelin

During the weekend of the 1st we went off-roading in Death Valley. It started with a late night trip north through DV on Friday after the girls had a wire-wrapping party. It was us and another couple that went. We got to Beatty around 11 and went to bed.

The next morning we got breakfast at the hotel and then headed out to Titus Canyon. Its a 27 mile dirt road/trail that winds through a usually dry canyon between Beatty and Death Valley.
It starts as a long washboard run through the desert into some winding hills, and then drops into a wash that then slowly transitions into the canyon. For the most part the road isn't to bad and could be run in a car with high clearance.
We also drove to an area called Chloride Cliffs, it was another rough washboard road. While a little rougher and requiring a little more ground clearance, I still only used 4wd for the low range on long downhills.