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nice, I hadn't seen this GT before

We then drove to the Cars and Coffee location, we had a nice lineup:

lots of cars

of course, other car groups too:

a Senna, nice!

bad ass looking

so tiny, don't roll it

nice

winner of the widest tires

We then went for a short and slow-ish drive to Joseph Frant Ranch County Park, where we got more pictures:

From there, we drove back down to Grandview Restaurant for a nice buffet lunch:

From there, people left but there is no way Cynthia and I could just leave while Mt Hamilton peak was 35mn away up the road according to google maps. The road was totally empty, we made up in 22mn, it was glorious :) (google says 14 miles, so that's 38mph average, just under the 40mph speed limit, so it's all good, right? :) ).

The way down, we were just as lucky, we made it all the way down in 26mn flat and only had to pass a single car. Woot! (google says 18.8 miles, so that's 43mph average)

Another night to test/debug my next version prototype LED outfit

Hi Niko :)

Fadi took over and did a nice 3H set

Dave Neven closed the night after Fadi

Thanks to all, it was a great evening, and it was lovely to see public works

Video summary:

This was my very first fully indoors, no indoor dining event since covid, you know just a regular club that you go and dance in. That was awesome!

First time using my new outfit for a real event. Still work in progress with a few bugs, but it's getting there. It's great when I happen to have the right shirt for the occasion, haha :)

I wasn't the only one who used the opportunity to dress up :)

Seventh Sign started the evening with a nice psy set, and handed off to Khromata after that, who played my favorite set from her so far, really good psy:

It was then time for Dimibo to take over and finish the night:

Except for the club shutting them down 10mn early in the middle of a great finishing track (WTF was that?), it was a great night. Glad to be back. Thanks Connor!

Short video summary:

I got the tires changed, and after that everything was fine, although I wasn't really in the zone and probably a bit scared by losing the car 3 times in the morning, and not knowing how much I could push it anymore, so I only got down to a 1:36 when the car is apparently good for around 1:28 or so.
Here's my best 1:36.08 lap:

Another day at Laguna, lots of nice cars:

those 2 cars were really fast (down to 1:28)

Kevin's car

First time I see MSO on a track and a bunch of fast Mclarens (also down to 1:28):

driver's meeting

Chris nicely gave me some video coaching

This is the 488C I'm now renting from Fast Toys to replace my 458C GT3:

getting some fresh tires

Thanks to Track Toys for the event and the car.

So, I thought it'd make things easier by offering a bike ride up montebello across to black mountain to pagemill. Afterall I had gotten up in less than 1h30 last time (starting from home)....

Oh boy, there was the small detail that I hadn't biked in over 6 months, and that sure showed. My legs were definitely not strong and it took me an embarassing 1h55 to get to the top of montebello

21mn just to get to the bottom of montebello was already not a good sign

See ya, me, my carbon bike, and sleek shirt will see you later, haha

I was so out of shape that I took 3 short breaks

after a while...

finally got to the top

1h57, ooops!

Then we got to pagemill for the ride down, before losing sunlight

2h45 before going down, I was late

look what I found close to sunset, a bobcat!

beautiful

It took me forever to get home (3h45 in all), but got home at 21:00 in the dark :)

Thanks a lot Johannes for joining me and being patient.

Cynthia came back from that direction eventually :)

nice and early, we had the place to ourselves

we got out pick of parking spots :)

We then went for our 13-14 mile Peter Creek Loop. It was rated for 6.5h, but it was closer to 4.5h without stops for us (the were other loops, but they were closed to the recent fires):

some trees were hollow due to past fires

Cynthia found multiple banana slugs

We found a nice classic car that had clearly been there for a while:

ok, maybe it needs a slight tuneup

On the way back down, we met most of the people who had just arrived for the 3 day weekend. We went to check out the visitor center that had now opened:

Thanks to Cynthia for joining me on the nice hike.

gotta love the airvents to keep the luggage cool :)

I had my slow car parked next to him :)

Justice was sedate enough on the drive, despite his faster car

We did arrive at the beach 22mn before everyone else :)

hello :)

Mia, our new recruit

thanks Justice for the picture

We then had a stop at Pescadero for coffee:

And a fun drive back up pescadero/84 with few cars. My car was a bit thirsty at the top:

ridiculous line to go eat at Alice's

Drive back down had an interesting (but slow) 570S with a giant ass aftermarket wing, that didn't make the driver faster :)

Fun drive and beautiful day out, thanks to all.

getting ready :)

nice (but still cold) day

Natalie came to join us, yeah!

Thanks Cosmic Gate for the great show!