cali

oh boy, southern california. half way through a work trip and having a pretty good time. spent a couple days in reno, which isn't as bad as I thought it might be. the company was having bike to work week, and the rental car I ended up with was a black V8 dodge charger. pretty funny rolling up in that when everyone is out front chilling on their lunch break and tuning bikes. aside from meeting 20 or 30 new faces and getting 100 different questions answered, the reno highlights were a Trader Joes trip and heading out to Truckee to hang out with Hoyer and his wife. Truckee's a pretty rad place, Hoyer's house is up on a hill with these amazing, huge pine trees in his yard and throughout the neighborhood.

flew to lax yesterday, and spent two hours in awesome traffic driving to Ventura. avoided the in n out gut bomb on the way and had a decent sandwich for lunch in some upscale town where everyone's trying to look like movie stars while walking their little yapper dogs. Ventura's not as small or chill of a town as I thought it'd be, but the hotel's right on the beach, and good surf is right there. paddled out for a couple hours last night, and a couple more this morning. brought back awesome Australia memories, and was SO much fun. definitely one of the only real drawbacks of living in salt lake is no surf. The skiing and biking does a pretty damn good job of making up for it though.

alright, nap time, and then time for a tour around town on the cruiser bike and an afternoon surf. AND trying to get the brain ready for learning overload for the next 4 days.
/ty