Supercross 2010

2010 was the year of domination by Ryan Dungey, we started our season off at the San Francisco supercross.  

Here is a picture of my brother with Ryan, on his way to becoming the 2010 SX champ!

Our next trip was to Vegas for the Supercross finals. This would be one of the trips of misfortunes I mentioned in my first post.  Las Vegas is about a 14 hour drive from where we live, so we decided to make the 4 hour drive to San Francisco then fly. Our 4 hour drive turned into a very interesting trip. About half way to SF, we got a flat tire. Lucky for us we stopped to check it out across the street from a tire shop and it was Friday, it was a good thing we left early. Back on the road and within a few miles of the airport the alternator belt shredded to pieces. With no power steering we managed to get parked in the parking garage, decided we would deal with the car when we got back. As we were gathering our luggage and ready to go get the shuttle we got another flat tire. This time on my brother’s wheelchair, luckily there was a spare in the car so it got changed in the parking lot and off we went. We managed to make our flight and get to Vegas, it was almost a miracle.

Windham’s signature move in the opening ceremonies

We even made it to see Blue Man group!



Josh Hill riding to the gate for practice

On our return our flight got delayed. We had to stay a night in a hotel to wait for a parts store to be open to get the belt for the car, and then we managed to find a shop that would let us borrow tools to fix it our self. Then we snapped the bolt, it was still just long enough to thread. So we left it at that and hoped the car would make it back. I did have finals I needed to get back too. That’s right this whole ordeal was the weekend before finals at Humboldt State University. Maybe a bad plan, but was well worth it.

2009: A little moto and a little Disney

Off to San Francisco

Stewart on the big screen wearing a wig

San Francisco supercross at AT&T park.

Seatttle Supercross for my birthday weekend, that’s one way to spend your 21^st!

Windham during opening ceremonies, this will be the first of many pictures of this.

On the way back I barely got the picture of this. The 45 parallel, half way between the North Pole and the Equator.

The start of the 2009 outdoors. Hangtown is a must attend event, the closest round to us about 5 hours drive...

Chad Reed on Suzuki

Thanks to the local radio station, I got 2 tickets to Disneyland. Spent 2 days roaming around the parks, then later in the trip got talked into going skydiving.

Me with Tink

Thumbs up! It was well worth it, even if I thought I never would do it.

Start from the beginning

     The title for my blog has two meanings. Growing up in what most consider “the middle of nowhere” sometimes it takes a road trip to get out of here… The second meaning, well, sometimes out of nowhere and with next to no plans it will be time for a road trip.
     In the next several entries I will be listing trips from the past 4 years. Starting with the year 2008, it was just the beginning. There were 3 races that year. Glen Helen, Hangtown and Washougal. 

A cool sign at Glen Helen showing how far in what directions each of the other races. 2008



James Stewart at Hangtown. 2008

One of the 450 starts at Washougal. 2008

Better late than never

Each time I took off on a road trip in the last few years, I have thought about starting a blog to document adventures and misfortunes and whatever else I come across in my travels. Just under 6 weeks before the 2012 supercross season opener in Anaheim, CA, I have started this blog and will try to record all future travels. I also have the goal of finding photographs from each trip in the last 3 or so years to kick off my travel blog. If you are going to read this blog expect trip data and randomness as my brother and I hit the road. Welcome to my blog!