Nascar WOOO WOOOO! WT

Love it!
Went to Nascar with some friends. On Thursday we gave away almost $500k that we have spent the year raising to different organizations that help children in Arizona! SO, we decided to take some of our own hard earned money to celebrate. We got 2 RV spots and an RV for the weekend at NASCAR. Most of us aren't fans of NASCAR, but more fans of partying.
I love all kinds of racing, NASCAR would be on the bottom of my totem pole for how much I like it, but in person its not bad.
Enjoy the pics!
Thats me on the left, Baron in the middle and our crazy neighbor from bakersfield on the right!! We met some great people that I can assure you thought we were much more weird than themselves!

Okay, WHO invited the village people. I hate that daryl guy..

AHHHH. a beautiful morning!!

Our spot was highly coveted and close to the track! Thanks F1 Race factory!


Drink drink drink:

Talking about life and other important things I'm sure:



We corrupted the neighbor kids and turned them into stylish people. Whether its our charity group of Nascar weekend. We help the kids!

I'm proud to have such great friends:


This enterprising girl realized that she could get 40 guys to fill out her survey that she doing for her class at ASU if she did a keg stand. Thats what I call dedicated:



Guys talking about who is tuff always leads to some form of competition:

I could have beaten them easily. I just DIDN'T feel like it!!!






I was VERY into the race!



Bobby looked like a sort of classy redneck. The $600 snake skin boot didn't hurt... (long story on how those came about....)


Lots of backfires! I had a feeling that the increased # of backfires had something to do with the fans enjoyment at seeing them more than a neccessity of the cars.... Hmmmmm. Nascar wouldn't do that, would they!

That guy passed that guy and I hate that guy....

The special people!

Getting tricky!













Headin home. Trucker Baron and navigator Gina, with a hard i...

Oh yeah. on the way home:

Gotta get me one of these!

Part II, Sedona trip 4-14 and 4-15 2007

So there I was playing a game of how little can I scrape the tow hitch. It actually barely touched. I was amazed to see how much scraping the people in the "rental" jeeps were doing although it may have been their first time offroading...
I even had a Pinky jeeper tell me I couldn't make it. HAHAHA! I showed him and his cowboy boots, scarf, ten gallon hat, and fake revolver whos boss.






Stay tuned for a video of me doing this little hill.


Broken Arrow was a blast. I have video of a couple portions of the trail. The stairs were more slippery than I had expected, but not nearly as bad. I see all of the pics of people spotting etc. I dont get it. My 4runner is so low it rides on the bump stops and nothing scraped or scratched...
I guess people must put their tires in the grooves so there a lots of things to hit the undercarriage! YIKES!
It is really hard to find somewhere to camp in Sedona. After trying several differnt roads and only finding no camping signs or dead ends we finally found an area that camp fires were legal in and had NO ONE around.
I love this pic. The sky is sooo blue. Thats me walking back after realizing we found another dead end while looking for a camp site.


So what do we wake up to.... A quad adventure with a bunch of Asian tourists about 10 fee from my car. (thanks to that guide for showing some respect for sleeping campers...??)
We had a good laugh and at least they couldn't see in with the new limo tinted windows. I thought that was it until:

YOGA TODAY, a television show started to pull in with trucks, crew, actors and a nice little stage. This was about 15 feet from where I lay! The camera guys were really cool and just doing their job. They were from Jacksonhole Wyoming and they had a very cool "sportsmobile." This is a company that takes normal vans from ford, dodge, chevy etc and out fits them. 4x4 etc. They are the favorite for professional surfers to use in Baja.
That was just too funny to wake up to, so off we were to some idian ruins.

This is cool. Basically a symbol above each home to let you know who lived there.

Then we did a little offroading down a trail at the back of the parking lot. It was numbered etc, but I couldn't find it on my map.


anyone know what this is??
Looked like a well cap or a marker?


Then we headed to a secret spot to do some hiking. A buddy of mine showed me this in college. You have to hike up through the wilderness where there is no trail. Scale a couple of walls where I found two water bottles from people who realized they needed both hands about half way up (yes I packed them out. One was a Sierra club bottle. I should send it to them with a note...)and got to this view.

You can see my 4runner down there if you look hard.
Watch where you put your hand while climbing!


Turn around you idiot!

Thats not a belly its a 9mm handgun buldge damnit! : )


Loved this tree


Yah I agree, I look winded and yet well armed.

Eventually you get to the ruins under a cliff. These are so hard to make it to that I'm sure very few make the trip. No vandalism no other modern human markings and one of the best view to be had.



Home sweet home




I could hang out here for a while!

Other ruins that are still "secret" but more visited because no climbing up the cliff is needed.

This has to be a great waterfall to see when its running

Watch your step!

Antique trash is somehow better than modern trash...

This was a shell oil container.
These are just random cans below.

A very cool little round cactus

Off to run soldiers pass in the 4runner

The sink hole.

The seven sacred and very dirty pools.


Another marker

This is the most godie house in all of sedona and its about 50 yards from the most beautiful church.






And then we headed home. The third part will just be videos that I took offroading and driving around!
Hope you enjoyed. I know I did!!!!