Santa Ysabel, CA
Lake Havasu, AZ
A middle of the winter trip to pick up our new boat. Of course we had to make a pit stop and take it for a test drive in Parker.
Albuqureque, NM
Eastern Sierras, CA
Clovis and Yosemite, CA
In true Lorenz fashion, we set off on our vacation – spontaneously, unexpectedly and without any true destination. Amen, for the iPhone and google maps. We headed north toward Fresno.
We headed toward the Sierras and decided that since we were “so close” it would be fun to visit Yosemite in the winter time.
An interesting idea…
We did what any tourist would do and stopped at the local hardware store once we encountered the sign that said, CHAINS REQUIRED, in blinking yellow letters on the side of the highway. With our newly purchased chains, we got in the truck
and continued on our way.
We answered all questions correctly when stopped by the official with the bright lights (see exhibit “f” above with the red and blue lights)
and continued on our way.
We tested out the skid-i-ness of our truck on varying patches of snow
and continued on our way.
My heart fluttered as we reached Fish Camp (what we thought was the highest point of our trip) and the local told us the road gets worse up ahead. And higher. And messier. But,
we continued on our way.
Until
We got to the entrance of Yosemite and when the road into the park looked remarkably worse than the one we just came from, we did what any intelligent tourist would do
and continued on our way…
by making a gigantic U-turn and heading back down the road we just came from.
All part of the adventure, friends.
Ramona, CA
Lake Elsinore, CA
1.5 laps and I lost a rear tire to end my race. I ran 85-90% for the first lap, Motor bogged off the line and was 4th for 3 minutes. Chris@Benchmarkperformance.us has the carb issue handled before the next race. It’s nice having the motor builder call you after a race to follow up on his handy work. We had 2nd place back under our belt before the water crossing 1/4 of a lap into it. That 840 motor was the fastest motor out there today by a long shot. I was pulling everybody in the straights.
For the first 9 minutes of the race I was sucking dust and couldn’t see, couldn’t really pick my lines trying to stay with the leader. By lap 1.5 I took a small swap off of some whoops on a tight part of the trail, and stuffed the drivers side rear wheel sidways into 3 foot wall. It wasn’t that big of a hit and was suprized I lost the tire?…
I parked it and hear a kid running up to me, “You’re tire hit my house and my dad is bringing it back up here.”
“Thanks little guy, how’s the house.”
“It’s OK.”
What a good time. $150 to run down a city street at 60+MPH wide open, passing a 25mph speed limit sign in a residential area was well worth the entry fee. My anti-social lawless side was grinning ear to ear.
I had 2 practice sessions in the car before the start of the race today. The first one was when I pulled it into the trailer last night, and the second practice session was pulling it out of the trailer to the starting line today. Todd had the Flying Banana dialed in from the CORR Races in ’08, and had it back together for me by today. Chris built a ridiculous motor this week, and I got to break it in… Thanks for getting the Banana done for the Lake Elsinore GP guys, I had a blast.
I’m sorry to report she will have a different paint scheme before next race, but she will still bleed Banana Yellow.
Glamis, CA
Mt. Whitney, CA
Ramona, CA
Sean got off work “early” yesterday and proudly proclaimed, “Get the 700s ready. We’re goin’ on a photoshoot to Ocotillo.” Sounded like a great plan until we realized that by the time he got home, we had approximately 7 minutes left until sunset. We’d have to settle for a large open field on the way into town. The sunset did not disappoint, however, I’m afraid Deefor came home disappointed. I would not let her out of the truck to track down the nest of squirrels hidden on the hill.
I know just over that hills the cows lurketh.