Sunday 30th October – Luck and Good Times In The Rain

I was up at 6am, we had to leave by 6:30am to get to the Lake and set up the Kona stand. I met the boys in their hotel room and used their bathroom, then we went for breakfast. No questions were asked about me, I walked in like I owned the place and helped…

Saturday 29th October – Making It In Hollywood

It was pretty cold this morning, still shorts weather, but enough to make my fingers cold during morning duties. I decided not to have a shower and settled for washing my face, still figuring out the morning routine. Cereal for breakfast, I was out of camp by 8:30am. I continued driving south through farmland and…

Friday 28th October – The Art of Camping in the Rain

I’d left the side door window open for air and had minor water intrusion, but the roof rack straps had let water in during the night, creating four separate pools of water. Will have to fix that, but it wasn’t raining heavily enough to justify immediate action. I heated water for a shower and managed…

Austin – A Weekend of F1 in the “Weird” City

Thursday (Pre-F1 day) The flight to Texas from California started with the coast, quickly transitioned to mountains (some of them snow capped), then it was desert with inverse canyons. Just before landing, I saw farmland that initially was laid out in circular fields, then all squares. Maybe the two counties had a difference of opinion…

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (or HSB) is an annual festival held in Golden Gate Park, always on the first weekend in October and it is completely FREE. A guy named Warren Hellman started it all fifteen years ago just because he liked Bluegrass. He was a wealthy investor and used his wealth to bring the event…