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Just got back from an overnight trip to Tucson, Arizona for the 6th Annual Death Race motorized bicycle race with Nash Moto. I was only a spectator. I did not race. But I did take some photos. Follow the jump for all the images.

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The Governor’s Mansion that Ronald Regan and his wife Nancy had built in 1974 was never lived in by a governor. Now, the Carmichael ranch house immortalized by writer Joan Didion in her book The White Album has become a gated community for four new tract homes on a golf course. One of them is [...]

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I spent the entire summer I turned 17 working on an archaeological dig in Israel. It was for college credit and it was the “Holy Land.” Every morning we’d get up around 3 AM and dig away at Tel Dor until noon when it became too hot to do much of anything but float in [...]

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I grew up in these woods and yet, this is the first time I’ve ever been to Burney Falls. Crazy how amazingly beautiful and incongruous these falls are. The high desert scrub surrounding this lush Eden would never suggest there was something like right off the side of the road. Even stranger: a half mile [...]

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The Walker Sculpture Garden: summer.

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I checked this out with my dad last time we were in NorCal. We got lost and ended driving halfway to Stockton. By the time we got phone navigational support we only had about five minutes to check it out before jamming to the airport and flying out.It is probably the best free skatepark I’ve [...]

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Designer Aaron Draplin lives for the road and it’s documentation. He is currently on day 44 of what he is calling the 2007 DDC Spring Tour. In an email he sent this morning Aaron signed off with the words “getting lucky in Kentucky.” I immediately thought of bourbon. Which is odd, because I don’t drink [...]

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The highlight of this day in my life. News from Southwest Airlines (via email to both of us) that starting this month they will begin direct flights from San Diego to Reno. Ninety-two minutes to heaven. Direct. Looks like some flight attendants are going to get real tired of seeing us board those flights. And, [...]

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A little reminder to those who have forgotten: Disneyland is still the happiest place on earth, and the Peter Pan’s Flight in Fantasyland is (regardless of the technological advances shown on Indiana Jones) still the finest ride ever created at any amusement park in the world. While the psycho/sexual ramifications of an adult male admitting [...]

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