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July 23rd, 2019 by netsplash

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses over the San Francisco Bay, going from San Francisco to Marin County, in the U.S. state of California. It was opened for use in 1937. When the bridge was finished, its length of 9,266 ft (2824 m) made it the longest bridge in the world. Now there are several bridges that are longer, but for many people, it is still one of the most beautiful bridges in the world

The fog just rolled in like dry ice!

Godzilla VS The Golden Gate Bridge
Alcatraz Island Prison in the background – No Parole from Rock and Roll!

Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, Mine, ..San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf gets its name and neighborhood characteristics from the city’s early days of the mid to later 1800s when Italian immigrant fishermen came to the city by the bay to take advantage of the influx of population due to the gold rush.
I just saw guys escaping from Alcatraz Island.

You can’t see the top of the bridge because of the clouds. I heard that was normal

Between 1937 and 2012, an estimated 1,600 bodies were recovered of people who had jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge, located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.[1]The four-second fall from the Golden Gate Bridge sends a person plunging 245 feet (75 m) at 75 miles per hour (121 km/h) to hit the waters of the San Francisco Bay “with the force of a speeding truck meeting a concrete building.” Jumping off the bridge holds at least a 98 percent fatality rate
Alcatraz State Prison is famous the world overAmerica’s most ruthless, such as Al Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud (the “Birdman of Alcatraz”), George “Machine Gun” Kelly,Bumpy Johnson, Rafael Cancel Miranda,[3] Mickey Cohen, Arthur R. “Doc” Barker, Whitey Bulger, and Alvin “Creepy” Karpis (who served more time at Alcatraz than any other inmate.


  • San FranciscoSince 1979 located in San Francisco Greens Restaurant opened in 1979 as part of San Francisco Zen Center, which includes Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. Located at historic Fort Mason Center in a former machine shop,

    San Quentin State Prison is a corrections and rehabilitation state prison located in California. In 1969, Johnny Cash played the famous “At San Quentin” concert at the prison. He performed his anti-prison song “San Quentin” twice during the set as it was met with huge cheers and applause.Who is the most famous inmate at San Quentin State Prison? Manson family leader Charles Manson.

NAPA VALLEY
The combination of Mediterranean climategeography and geology of the region are conducive to growing quality wine grapes. John Patchett established the Napa Valley’s first commercial vineyard in 1858.[6] In 1861 Charles Krugestablished another of Napa Valley’s first commercial wineries

Embassy Suites – Nava Valley California

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May 7th, 2019 by netsplash

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March 20th, 2019 by netsplash

My New travel guitar as a carry on

Great crowd on Saturday

Gator Nationals Logo…………..

Last dinner Saturday night at the hotel… NHRA/FOX people kept rolling in…. lasted til midnight

Garrett likes his rental car.

Enjoying my own private lunch at the end of the track.

Setting up an internet antennae for the county sheriffs department.

When Garrett was up there the camera started swirling.. and they actually said “We saw a black man on our bus and freaked out”… Crazy………………………………………..

Tear Down on Sunday Night. That’s not me thank god…

Don Garlits and Don Prudomme signed hats.

Missed Lee Greenwood by 30 Seconds.

She was really fun to hang out with….

Wow this was good… Mushroom Ravioli! 5 stars.

Going out Saturday night

I love they way the JIB looks on Camera… don’t want to do it though

Members Super Fan Area……I served Popcorn and Mello Yello… to make’ em happy….

Not my job… but they were getting covered up…………lol ….

Watching a car wreck from the T.V. mounted on the side of the semi .

Going above and beyond… hanging emergency internet from a forklift at 6:30 am

Going above and beyond… hanging emergency internet from a forklift at 6:30 am

Loved meeting Don Garlits.. My dad talked about him a lot when I was a child.

Church for race drivers… Missed it this weekend.

The Fox Sports TV set up .

My Box on the bottom is getting buried by Fox Sports.

Keeping track of the Track Video Feeds from our news Semi…………..

Crazy how many females… drive Dragsters…. no way hose’ for me………

Room service from Shulas…. Veg Options suck… not a surprise tho’

The IT Vehicle at the races for the year. I should probably walk more though…

New Truck new awning… new day…. …. excited……………

Fell off the back of our semi in first 5  minutes….. OMEN????

Fell off the back of our semi in first 5  minutes….. OMEN????

I love Spanish Moss…………………

86 degrees today only…today only… hangin’ around until day starts at 1:00 pm

 My New Travel Axe… its pretty cool…

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February 24th, 2019 by netsplash

These pics are backwards… In the Phoenix airport to come home.

Climbed the mountain this morning…. I can see it in  the background.

This is not a hike…. no trail…. mostly boulders.

But I finally made it….On top of Arizona.

Summit marker.

Outta breath but successful .

Party at the top

Do you see a trail?

Do you see a trail?…. me either….

Early morning…. 1/2 way….

Dangerous… YUP

Under one of the Fox Sports Semi’s

 

See the cherry picker… thats my WIFI for the NHRA

 

On the Midway…watching fans have fun…

 

 

In the Broadcast booth… the announcer is a character…….

Fox Sports…equipment Semi…. We filled this to the brim.

Cool Car.

Last day….. just at daybreak.

In the Fox Sport RV…. down time.

 

I have a few questions for you. ……………

 

Entrance to the Phoenix raceway.

Catered Lunch…

Brittany Force dragster.

 

Next in Line.

 

My Friend Shane…. monitoring Video Feeds.

Downtime in the Fox RV. … Fake Fireplace roaring…. 40 and raining….

So cool. I have never seen anything like this in real life.

 

Billboard for this weekend.

 

Orange Trees in yards all over the place… CRAZY..

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February 11th, 2019 by netsplash

 

Richard Nixon’s Oval in a re-creation of the Oval Office

 

Sitting at the Desk and chair Richard Nixon used in the White house

 

Ticket Girl In Pomona taking a lunch break out of the rain

 

End of another race day

 

Video Controller in the Fox Sports Broadcast trailer

 

MIdway view to the mountains

 

1,2,3 Blast off

 

Del Taco…. Had to try it.

 

My Friend Allie on the left interviewing the winner

 

View from the Media Booth

 

Another view from the media booth.

 

Cool Classics

 

Snowy mountains in the back ground.

 

Well deserved Lunch for Fox Camera men.

 

Live Timing Box…. part of my job.

 

Front Row View.

 

My co-workers.

 

I met Don Prudomme on an Elevator at the hotel… I didn’t know it was him.

 

Safety Safari…. Semi Suite.

 

Keeping Drivers safe…. Vehicles.

 

Clouds on the mountain behind the track.

 

Making CAT5 Cables to connect the track

 

Fox Production RV

 

Live timing Box. Keeps track of track moisture, temperature, Rubber and Timing Lights.

 

Lunch in a Cuban restaurant with my new California Co-workers.

 

Pomona Suites

 

Unpacking TICKET SCANNERS…. Another one of my jobs.

 

Ticket scanners ready to go.

 

National Hot Rod Museum Pomona California.

 

On the Top of the suites getting WiFi to work.

 

A mess I have to manage.

 

Wally Parks creator of the NHRA

 

Larger than life NHRA Trophy

 

I want to ride this.

Cool Roadster for Elvis in Drag Racing Infancy

 

Breakfast at the hotel .

 

The La Brea Tar pits

 

The La Brea Tar pits ….. bucket list item………….

View from my Room.

 

My Hotel  Diamond Bar California.

 

NHRA Main Headquarters Pomona California

 

3,2,1,  – GO ON YELLOW… Mello Yellow…. is our primary sponsor……….

 

Dragster In the lobby Pomona

 

My Hotel Entrance

 

California ass..

 

Cool… look.

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