This year Kay only was able to ride the first day as she has a herniated disc.  Never the less, she was able to ride a total of 97 miles for the first day.  No pain, just a numb leg and a lack of strength in her left leg.

I have attached some photos, first of Kay and myself, the Smarter Travel Media Team, and our friends, Steve and Lisa.

Kay and Nick along the way

Jay, Sonja, Nick, Matt, and Massimo

Steve and Lisa

Below you will find a quick two laps of the track I was driving at.  Great fun.

I have been hunting for a track purpose car for a while now.  My street car was fun, but a) too expensive to run and maintain, and b) too expensive if something were to go wrong.  I found a gentleman who built a wonderful track car, great for beginners, and well sorted.  The PPI went smoothly with only one issue – the rear main seal required replacing.  It has been replaced and all is looking good.

The car should be shipping out next week and in the meantime I need to figure out how I am going to trailer the vehicle.

Here is a video of the “orange beast”.

Therefore, the will instead bucket those most likely to be from an illegal country by looking at their skin color.   This blatant  stereotyping is just plain wrong.  No amount of justification can be made to support this position.  The Nazis did this under Hitler and look what happened.  Is this the individual he people of Arizona what to identify with?  The new Nazis of the south?

I, as a US citizen, will never travel to Arizona as long as this particular law is in place.  I have friends in Arizona, and I hope they are ashamed.  I through we as a people were moving beyond this, but we tend to find those who will stoop to a new low to gain political power.  Frankly, how can people be so ignorant?

Does anyone from Arizona care to comment?

But please, don’t tell me they are taking your jobs.  These are jobs people just don’t want, and frankly, there is a long history of this as our country grew.  Irish? Greek? They all came in both illegal and legal and took the jobs no one wanted.

Also please don’t use the argument about draining our social resources such as health care and schools.  How many people live below the poverty line and a) don’t pay taxes, b) utilize medicare, and utilize the schools.  By the definition above, those individuals are also receiving a free ride.   How many individuals live well above the poverty line and cheat on their taxes?  How many corporations shift their money offshore to skirt paying taxes?  Unfortunately, these individuals have money and power, while the immigrants have little of either.  We like to pick on the weak.

Shame on Arizona, and shame on this country for letting this to happen.  BTW: Don’t look to Europe. They are just as bad, if not worse, than Arizona.  We still have the best system, but it requires mending.

Well, that has changed with this new release.   Going to a web site and selecting “Add Page to Evernote” now correctly captures the web page AND formatting.  It also displays the information correctly on my iPad. Well almost. There are some instances when lines appear to overlap one another.  I am sure they will release a newer version for the iPhone/iPad and correct this issue.

Looking forward to more days of outdoor riding.

I have downloaded a bunch of new apps including iBook. I have a kindle and I like iBook better. Faster, cleaner fonts, nicer user experience. On the negative side, the kindle is lighter. Holding the iPad is going to strain my hands after a while.

I have not tried any games but I did end up streaming a movie from netflix using my son’s account. Very nice with no jitter.

More later.