Meeting New Friends

Yesterday I took a chance and rode to Mt View to meet a guy who is an internet friend. Gary is building a car to race in La Carrera Panamericana. Gary and Jon are going to be the driver and navigator and the car, named "Lucky" looks like this. And this was also parked in Gary's lot. I didn't ask the story behind this but these little Cobra's are my wish and dream car, super impractical but who cares. I had some spare time so I tooled around and found a house that is very similar to the one I lived in in Mt. View my junior year of high school, as a matter of fact it may be the exact same house, I'll have to check with Mom. Gary has a blog at http://lacarrera2007.blogspot.com/ go check it out. That's Gary on the left, Jon on the right, me in the middle, Lucky behind us. Man I wish I could go!!!

The Big Fresno Fair

Karan, Jennifer, Erica and I all went to Fresno's County Fair. We ate a bunch of fried food, walked around, checked out the animals, the gallery, and the mid-way. Jennifer walked up to the very first game, the basketball toss, and won a stuffed animal, fairly large one at that, way to go JJ!!! Bet those folks couldn't believe their eyes when an 8 month pregnant women whooped em at their goofy game.

A ride weekend

Last weekend I hooked up with Cuzn Frank, the Killer Tomato and Smokin go to visit too. On friday we rode with Kim and Jerry and Lee and Kathy and went to Street Vibrations in Reno. Took a photo break overlooking Lake Tahoe. On Sunday Cuzn Frank and I rode hiway 49 Had a good breakfast in Drytown and coffee in Angels Camp. I found this cave on Hiway 49 on the way home.

Hangin out

We're just hangin out and waiting. So in the meantime and so as not to get boored, You'll notice I had the seat redone.


And went to the races. They even had the queen and her court there.
And check it out, Cuzn Frank, showing he's still got it!!!

Time to update again, we have landed and are on the Left Coast, the great Austrian state of Kaleeeeeefornia, home of the Terminator. Watching and listening to the political wind is making me whackier than ever. Just think about it, now Oprah, a black female TV personality, that spends millions of your dollars (ok, they aren't your dollars now, but they were before you gave them to her through the TV networks) on Africans instead of Americans, has endorsed and his backing a black muslim for President of the United States. Guess he'll change it to the United Muslim States of America. You heard it here first!!!

California

Made it to California today, end of trip tomorrow. We've seen a lot of this the last two days, you gotta know there's NASCAR racing in California this coming weekend.
Check out this weird house has saucers around it too. Kinda looks like a big golf ball, doesn't it.

New Mexico

We are in New Mexico now, this was taken of the wide open spaces in Texas. Today we should reach Arizona. Weather has been great and I-40 has had a lot of work done on it and is much smoother than it used to be.

Halfway there

These are the states we passed through so far. We are now in Oklahoma, getting ready to leave tomorrow or the next day. It rained like crazy just before we arrived but since then it has been hot, hot, hot!!! More pics to come.

Headed west

While camped in New Jersey, we made trips into New York where we sampled Nathan's Famous HotDogs, overpriced and give ya gas.

We also stopped at White Manna, they were listed as #13 on the top 20 hamburgers in america. However did that survey needs to have their taste buds examined. It was cute, it was unique, it was small, but surely wasn't anywhere near a top twenty burger. Oh well, at least we didn't get sick.

We went to Rutt's Hut also, famous for rippers, that's a hotdog that they deep-fry until it rips open. They were great, we'd eat there again.

We have left that area now and are slowly headed west. In Hershey, PA for a bit, guess we'll go check out chocolate town and the Renaissance fair.

New York

Proof positive we went to New York. We ate at Lombardi's, the first pizza parlar to open in the US in 1905. Pizza was excellent, now we gotta go back to try a bagel and a Coney Island hot dog.

In Virginia

Here we are behind our friends Jim & Carol, leaving North Carolina heading for Virginia. They will split from us at Richmond and we will see them again when we move to New Jersey in a few weeks.

While in North Carolina, I took my motorcycle and rode the tail of the dragon, whew, what a ride.

In Virginia, I was out for a ride and spotted this parked on the side of the road, a Texas sized cooker. So I stopped and found the Something Different General Store, They roast their own coffee as well as peanuts and almonds, they also make some wonderful BBQ Dan, the owner tells us all about it. Coffee anyone?? Look closely, the cream is served in little milk jars. And don't forget, it is a general store in case you get the craving to shop. Dan told us it's not a restaurant, but they do have 5 stools at a bar where you can order food and eat. And it is excellent, just about the best BBQ we have ever had. If your ever in Pine Tree, Va stop in and enjoy.

North Carolina

Here's our campsite at Forest Lake Thousand Trails. We have a great view of the lake and a spot where satellite is in also. Rode the "Tail of the Dragon" while here and also went to Hiddenite and mined for emeralds, we got two small ones as well as quite a few other semi-precious stones. Spent a couple of days going to race shops and also RCR winery.

Update

Haven't been updating as I should, we stopped in Florida to watch the shuttle launch. It was fantastic. We are in Georgia now, will be heading to Charleston today, then on to Hiddenite, NC to look for emeralds.