Category: Travel

Christina and I went to UmiGo Racing in Livermore tonight and had a blast. Their go karts get up to 45 MPH so even though it doesn’t look fast on the video, just trust me, it is really fast. I got a chance to do this in Scottsdale a while back, so when I heard they opened up an indoor track in the area, we had to give it a try. Christina is always beating me at racing at the putt-putt places and has the best time doing it, so I thought she would love kicking it up a notch or two. For the record, I did win this time, but I think she had the best time because she didn’t touch the brake and had to be rescued several times (my crazy woman). I also got black flagged because I kept the accelerator to the floor and would brake at the same time, which they didn’t like, otherwise I would have done even better. Thanks to Gary for telling me about it, if you are in town, you should definitely give it a try! I took some pictures with my cell phone camera, which aren’t the best, but I don’t think anyone looks that great wearing the helmets anyway. Oh, and yes my pants were dirty, I was planting some new plants this afternoon with Tyler and didn’t get a chance to change them before my date. 😉

On Saturday Christina and I took Tyler to the Oakland Zoo again.  As you can tell we had a lot of fun but especially Tyler!

Went to Rubicon Estate today which which was purchased in 1975 by Francis Ford Coppola and his wife Eleanor.  It was my second time visiting and it is one of my favorite wineries, mainly because they have a Tucker on the second story of the winery!

Went to Napa today with my parents and visited Castello di Amorosa which was probably my favorite winery I’ve been to so far (from a winery…not wine standpoint).  Got some great pictures and had an even better time.  After 6-7 samples at noon my pictures got more “creative”.

On vacation this week.  Made a “successful” trip to the DMV today.  I was #36 from the front door…

Some photos from Charlie Perkins (@CharliePerkins7) from the conference in Charlotte.  Some are of me moderating the technical talk and the others are of myself and Cali Lewis (@CaliLewis).

Here are some more pictures of the rafting trip from a few weeks ago.  After rafting we sat and watched people wipe out for a while and as you can see I was wiped out (exhausted).  I started lifting weights every morning for the past few weeks after going through that rafting trip.  I quickly realized how little I use my muscles when paddling down a set of rapids for an hour and a half. I also included a video someone gave me and I’m not in the raft but you can see how you get knocked around. I was expecting a nice leisurely trip down the river…oh no it was pretty intense.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures on our trip up to Portland to visit mom (and everyone in the family) for Mother’s Day.  I don’t get to see her much so I decided we’d “get crazy” and drive up to see her.  It was a long trip but glad we did it…

Drove up to Portland yesterday for a semi last minute surprise Mother’s Day visit.  The drive was long, really long and Jeremy got bored.