Baja 500

I got back Sunday from Baja. Went to spectate the race (Baja 500). It was a fun trip despite some problems with my truck. EARLY on Friday my friend Kent and I left his place and headed to San Diego to meet up with some friends, and drove down to Ensenada. We walked through contingency to check out some of the race cars in line for their technical inspection, that's always a good time. After eating some tacos and tortas at Mk Taco, we headed out for Mike's Sky Ranch (a famous hangout for baja racers/spectator up on a tough section of the race course at about 4,000 ft. elevation). On the way to Mike's we had a tire blow out, and put on the spare. In the next town (Valle De Trinidad) we picked up another "just in case" spare at the llanteria. Then we hit the dirt road to Mike's Sky Ranch, which is about 20 miles long. After about 15 miles the transmission started acting up...my truck just wasn't having a good day. I ended up losing second gear, and transmission is making unhealthy noises but it made it all the way home. Believe it or not, it was hot in the baja desert in June, but we stayed cool in the shade and camped next to the creek. The race course runs right through the area where we camped and crosses the creek. That made for some comfortable conditions to spectate...we just stuck our chairs right in the creek and got splashed by the race cars that didn't slow down through the water crossing. First motorcycles went by at 10am saturday, and last cars straggled through past midnight. We woke up Sunday for the long drive home, stopping in Ensenada for some Al Pastor tacos (marinated pork cut off of the rotisserie). Overall a great weekend. To see more of my pics you can click here to look at my PHOTO GALLERY .