Highlights from my motoGP weekend !!!
10 hour scenic drive from L.A. to Monterey with a stop at Santa Barbara.
walkie talkies are a must on road trips, but you must first brush up on your “Top Gun” lingo.
One bag of Reese’s Pieces will not last a whole 10 hour drive, between four people.
Sometimes the beach is really really cold, while everywhere else is sweltering hot.
Discovering air horns have a variety of purposes-- like, scaring a herd of cows on an open field, while you drive by. No hotel reservations means paying $121 for a room with one bed and NO air conditioning. As well as, using dirty ruff towels, washing your hair with generic mint soap and burning your back every time the room next to you flushes the toilet.
Deciding to walk, in the cold, in the dead of night, in the middle of Salinas, for the sake of keeping our “quality” parking spaces.
Walking six blocks one direction only to turn back and walk six blocks the opposite direction. Then, finding out that you need a car to order food at the drive thru because nothing else is open. Therefore, you have no choice but to walk back six blocks and pick up your car, which is what you should have done in the first place.
Going to sleep at 2 in the morning, only to wake up four hours later, just so we could get in line for a parking space in the dirt field they called a “parking lot”.
Walking across a hill, then down a hill, then down another hill, and then across a bridge or two or three, then up a few more mountainous hills for a better view of the track. Only to go back down, across a few more bridges and then finally deciding to go back up again.
Getting really bad sun burn because even SPF 1000 could not block your skin from the sun.
Realizing that you need more then one battery for your camcorder right before the race begins.
Understanding Italians have a whole lot of pride and will run on the track with a gigantic Italian flag even before the race is over, and even though Rossi didn’t win.
Finding out that there is no way out of the “parking lot” unless you go off-roading.
Screaming your ass off as you go off-roading in a Mitsubishi Lancer OZ rally edition, so you can take the short cut home, which still takes 45 minutes. [side note: I got in a shit load of trouble for this-- so, unless you know what your doing or your nuts like me. DON’T DO IT!]
Having people cheer for you because they can’t believe the Lancer made it all the way across.
Taking the direct route home which takes only about 5 hours.
Realizing that Santa Barbara has NO gas stations that are open 24 hours, unless you drive about two miles away from the freeway.
The Top 3 Things I Learned During My Weekend: 1. Warm ROCKSTARS are nasty. 2. Hanging out with seven guys is way cooler then hanging with bunch of bitchy girls any day. 3. MotoGP is a million times better then NASCAR, no matter what anyone says.
It was a swell weekend, wish you could of been there! But, as a consolation here are some visuals for all of you who missed it.
<3 Len |