Biking II

The next day we headed to Topanga State Park for some more riding.  It looks like we did about 2.5 miles there - when picking a place for your first mountain bike ride in a while, choose somewhere that is not all uphill (really steep uphill).  Also make sure the bike can shift into all its gears, I couldn't shift into one of my front rings so I was down by 9 gears.  We rode back to the truck and did a little hiking on one of the trails.  We left there looking for a little food along the ocean but didn't have any luck, so we headed back to Ridgecrest for a bonfire.

Ouch

Biking I

In an attempt to do something healthy Angela and I headed to LA for the weekend with the bikes in the back of the truck.  We got there mid day on Friday and went for a ride along the beach from Santa Monica to Venice Beach.  I didn't think we had ridden very far, but looking at Google Maps it looks like it was 9-10 miles in total.

As you can see...

I made a couple of attempts to post from the Ipod touch I got for Christmas.  You can't do anything but the title straight from Safari on the touch because it doesn't recognize the text entry area ???  I later searched the internets and found that you can e-mail to your blog.  The only negative there is that I still cannot get pictures, so unfortunately I don't think the touch will add to any on the go posts :( 

Or maybe you can.

Here is my attempt at sending a post to my blog through email.

Sent from my iPod

You can't blog from an iPod / iPhone ...

Happy New Year to all.

Festival of Speed, Sept 25-26

There is nothing better then watching a large group of muscle cars race around an airfield on an island. Us and two of our friends made yet another trek down to the San Diego area for the Coronado Speed Festival during Fleet Week.

For $15 we were able to watch 2 days of vintage car racing, see a huge car show, and drive several different cars. I drove 3, the least valuable of which was a 2011 Corvette Grand Sport ~$55,000, the next would be a 2011 E63 AMG ~$88,000, and last was a SL63 AMG at a cool $140,000.

The Corvettes were in an open area, thus you had to have a GM employee passenger to keep tabs on you :(

The Mercedes people had basically an auto-cross course set up. They put you in the car and told you the objective was to keep the cars moving...YEAH!!! Here are MORE PICTURES.