Our Trip to California....

I am going to make this short and sweet as possible....I promise... ;)










Well we left for CA on Wednesday night...stay in St. George (parents 2nd house)...then drove to CA on Thursday. We got there checked into our dodgy hotel (we didn't get shot while we were so it wasn't as bad as we thought) then went to the race track. We got to the race track...met up with Charlie, Dave Wells, and Scott Jennings (Scott is a race track legend...look it up if you don't believe me)....then we found out Ant had an oil leak so they were going to tear into the engine...while they did that I went to look around....only to find out Miller Motorsports was there and I wanted to see why they were all the way in CA when they are based out of UT. Found out that they were having a Yamaha racer school there and they were in charge of it....since they were doing that...they had a pro AMA Superbike Racer there by the name of Josh Hayes....so I naturally, not shy went over to introduce myself to world famous Josh Hayes....4-5 hours later we were still talking (when he wasn't making a couple of laps)...he was a great, super nice guy....not to mention his wife is a racer too...and that is really cool too.

Friday...Ant spent the day at racer school....I just helped out the men wherever they needed help...mainly grabbed them lunch when they wanted it too....Did I mention we also shared a garage with the ONLY American to win in the Isle Of Mann? Well we did...his name is Dave Roper (look that one up to while you are at it)..... then at the end of the day...they had a race for first time racers.....so naturally Ant was in the race and took 2nd overall....so that was great..
Sat...Ant practiced....then it was race time (a couple of hours later) so Ant did he warm up lap...then got to the starting line (grid)...and oh noooo Ant wasn't moving...what was wrong???? Got down to the garage (I was on the hill ready to film) and come to find out he was out of gas...he forgot to fill up. Well after everyone's comments of "you won't be doing that again...you will check the tank 5 times every time you go out on the race track now" (if I had a dollar every time I heard that on Sat, ha ha) But mainly it was a LOT of support from everyone. So that cheered Ant right up.




Sunday.....Practice and after a couple of times of checking the gas tank...Ant got to race!!! Overall he took 2nd place in his race and he dropped 14 seconds off of his lap time since Friday...So he walked out of Willow Springs a happy man.






Monday...we went to 6 Flags...and there was NO ONE there... I think the longest we waited in line was 10 mins tops...but most of the rides we just walked right on...it was fun. Then that night we drove down to Long Beach and stay with Charlie.














Tuesday...we had a great breakfast at Charlie's place...Thank you Annette it was great...and then we got a personal invitation to see this guys motorcycle collection...it was amazing!!! He maybe had I am guessing about 5 million dollars worth of motorcycles...and the worse part about it is...there wasn't that many bikes....maybe 20-30 bikes....that just shows you how valuable this bikes were. It was great...then after that we drove back to St. George.....Then on Wednesday we just woke up and went home..



There you go...the short story of our trip....I promise a lot more happened that I could write about but I don't want to put you to sleep more than I have. :)