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so, we’ve been home a couple of weeks now, and i feel like i’ve finally recovered from our trip. you know how some vacations, you need another vacation when your get home. i think the heat was what whipped us out the most. it’s good to be home, and no matter how nice a bed the hotel has, there’s nothing like sleeping in your own.

we’re finally getting our patio poured this week. we tore down the deck about four years ago with the intention of pouring a patio the same year. but then we saw the price of concrete work, and decided to wait awhile. this guy was recommended by some friends, and he does really nice work. here’s what it’s looking like so far….

there’s a lot of dirt there, some of it’s for leveling off the grade when he’s done. i’ll post as things progress.

so we decided to. Leave early, we’ve had enough of the salt. we’ve got our souvenir t-shirts and we had a great time. don’t know when we’ll do it again, of if we would. i’d like to thank John Romero from White Goose Bar racing for all the hospitality he’s shown us, answering our questions and putting up with us hanging out under his tent and taking up space. we got to help out the last day, so we weren’t totally useless.

we’ll have a couple of relaxing day in vegas, doing the tourist thing, then back home.

here’s a couple more shots from the track.

and it’s kicking our butts, which is why i didn’t post yesterday. we got home yesterday afternoon about 4:30 and we were just wiped out. we grabbed a quick dinner and then crashed. slept in till about 7:30, filled up the cooler with ice and water, and headed on out to the track.

this is one of the timing shacks on the track.

our contact, John Romero from White Goose Bar racing, got us a ride with the safety crew for about an hour. we got to go out on the tracks when anything happened, and with four tracks, there was a lot happening.

most of the time we just kinda hung out under the tents trying to stay cool. we helped out a bit when we could. we helped out at the starting line for one run, Cameron was the official umbrella holder ; ), keeping the driver cool while he was waiting his turn to make a run.
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here the car is still on the trailer, waiting it’s turn.

this has been a hectic three days on the salt flats, and we’re pretty whipped. we’re talking about leaving tomorrow, a day early. we’ll see how we feel in the morning.

first day on the flats, pretty amazing, and a zillion people. i’ve got some really nice images, but i didn’t bring any computer software to do any kind of editing. all of the images i’ve posted so far have been phone images.

there are four tracks on the flats, two for the faster cars and the other two for some of the slower cars and the motorcycles. the longest track is eight miles long. spectators and racers line the tracks on the one side.

we met up with some of our contacts, saw some neat cars, but only lasted in the heat, about 110 today, until about 2:30, so we went back to the hotel to cool off and jump in the pool. We’ll go eat some dinner and then have to go do some laundry.

tomorrow morning if we can show up at 6:00am, we might be able to get on the car chase crews and help bring the cars back after the run. I just have together the three lazy kids up early enough.

we pulled into wendover about 6:00 this evening. hot rods everywhere.

it looks like it rained on the flats today, all the cars were covered in a salt crust.

I’ve got a couple of contacts to get ahold of tomorrow, they’re going to show us around get us into the “secret” places. gotta a find a donut shop for breakfast first.

still hot, we’ve been just staying inside, trying to stay cool. we wondered around last night for a couple of hours and saw the lights.

today, we slept in late, it was up to 90 degs by 10:00 this morning. then we had to go to in n out for lunch, then afterwards we went go karting to an indoor track.

we leave for wendover in the morning about 10:00, should be about a six hour drive.

flight from michigan was smooth, and uneventful, just the way I like ‘em. we’re staying at my brother in laws for a couple of days,

and then on to wendover and our hotel. my sister is also coming up from calif. to stay until we go up to the salt flats.

it’s 108 here in vegas, but its supposed to cool down a bit next week, and be a little cooler in wendover. we’re going to wait till it cools down this evening and drive over to the strip and see the lights.

we’re leaving for bonneville salt flats thursday for speed week, to watch the land speed record attempts.

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we’re going to fly  into las vegas and stay at my brother-in-laws for a couple of days, then drive over to wendover and our hotel.  we’ll spend five days on the flats and then back to vegas for another couple of days.

my goal is to update this site nightly with a few pictures from the flats.  i found a ipad app that will let me post directly to the site, so I can take some images with the ipad and post later in the evening back at the hotel. check back nightly, starting the 9th,  for new posts.

i’ve started playing around with video for about the last 18 months,  learned a lot, but still have a lot to learn. here’s a short one i did a while ago.  this is a time lapse that was shot with a canon 30d, taking 1 shot every three seconds.  i then used sony vegas pro to put all the images together and make this short clip.  mowing the yard real time is about an hour and 15.