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The organizers are also in the habbit of doing some drag races to compare cars, and it turns out that I won against a F458 Speciale, Aventador, and 650hp racecar :) (actually I lost to the aventador once when I started in the wrong gear, but won best 2 out of 3):

A few car pictures:

Before lunch time, we lined up for some drag racing (from a running start):

Before enjoying lunch:

In the afternoon, I tried to rest a bit to be more focussed, and as luck would have it, I again scored my best lap of the day on my last session, just before having to stop due to having melted my rear brake pads :)

Thanks much to the organizers and participants, it was great fun.

someone got to willows with a nicer ride than I did :)

On the way back, it got a bit more interesting. Forecast was for a 5000ft overcast in PAO, so my plan was to fly through oakland and stay under the cloud layer so as not to get trapped on top, but over Oakland, the clouds got as low as the hills I usually cross over, so I ended up flying over the water at 300ft for a while and the controller routed me towards SFO instead. I got an improvised bay tour out of it, and I ended up flying over the bay with San Francisco on my right. By the bay bridge, I figured I'd be better overflying between 2 spans of the bridge instead of the last span and the city since that would put me too close to densely populated area. Interestingly, I ended up having to climb back from 500ft to 3500ft (on top) after that due to headings from the controllers, and needing to stay clear of clouds (going under over san francisco and hills didn't look safe). Eventually I got a hole over Palo Alto and came back down that way. That made for some interesting pictures. I could of course have flown IFR, but the rental plane I had was a backup plane, it was old, and I preferred flying VFR with it than trusting a single VOR needle without any panel GPS in actual IMC if I could avoid it (I did have hand held GPS).

While the show was fantastic, crowd watching was also fun. The best part were the deluted christians who were there sunday at the entrance telling people to wear more clothes and that jesus would forgive them if they did. I'm glad they had nothing better to do that day, they provided entertainment while we were waiting in line.

very nice makeup

But what's up with all those people wearing those Batman Bane like face masks made out of beads. Is that really supposed to be cool? I'm really not seeing it, and I don't think it's just me :)

So, let's replay the events. Saturday, there was a good line by 15:30 already:

I barely got there in time for Oakey:

err, ok I guess :)

The catterpillar was very well animated:

Doh, shouldn't have done that :)

almost burning man-like from this distance

And the evening ended with Above and Beyond I had seen just weeks before at burning man, but sure didn't mind seeing again, great set again :)

Here are a few sets from that day:

Sunday, I showed up bright and early at 13:00 for Dyloot, he's a local who plays awesome melodic trance:

google glass, nice..

Next, came Orjan Nilsen. Awesome Trance set:

Then came Andrew Rayel:

Last, but not least, half of Aly and Fila: While for me, it wasn't as nice than Andrew or Orjan, Marlo, or Dyloot in my opinion, but it was still a good way to end the night :)

This was an awesome two days, I sure hope we get more of those in the coming years. Thanks Insomniac and Livenation.

visitor dogs are welcome :)

nice lunch spot

I still suck at the full track, but managed a 3.36. That will give me a benchmark to beat next time :)

I made a nice flight back with David and have pictures here

Besides the pictures below, you can also look at the album photo for this flight.

Maxwell VOR

Sears Point

Eh, that's the EVA plane I'll be taking in 10 days :)

The new SFO tower

Alessandro took beautiful pictures, here are a few: