Henry's Notes

On Sunday, I went to the beach area of Long Beach to watch the last stage of the famous Tour of California. In case you don't know, the Tour of California is a professional road race, that spans over 7 stages starting from San Francisco down to Long Beach (Los Angeles area), much like the Tour de France. The last stage is a circuit race, which means that they go on a loop course multiple times, thereby making it "fan viewing friendly".

The day started out cold, but was sunny by the time I got down to the race area. Although I am not a race watching fan, it was fun to be out there seeing what it is all about and feeling the crowds. Of course, it was amazing to watch these guys go by at 30+ miles per hour.

I also got to meet up with Moe, from Mountain Bike Riders, who is testing the F-20R bike. The picture shows him with the bike and me with F-20T2 (unavailable in the US at the current time). You can read Moe's notes about his day here.
Photo courtesy of a passerby-er.

Last weekend, I went mountain biking at the Fullerton Loop with guys from Mountain Bike Riders (Moe and RL). Actually, it's probably been at least 4 years since I used by mountain bike. Also, the loop is very close to where I used to live in La Habra, so it was doubly sad that I didn't get to it till now.

Anyway, RL has a DIY helmet cam, which he used to film our ride. You can see me riding in the video at the bottom of their post. You can also see Moe's notes about the ride and some pictures at his blog.

Photo courtesy of Moe Ramirez.

Labels: mountain bike

Happy Chinese New Year (of the Pig - on Feb 18)!

Here is a short recap of what happened: 2006 was a busy year for me. I traveled a lot and moved back to the Los Angeles region (Orange county, CA to be exact) from Tucson in July. I am very grateful to my god-sister Anne and her husband Helman for letting me live in their guest room for the past 6 months. However, I moved out 2 weekends ago to a share a home in Long Beach, CA - about 2.5 miles from work. Since my significant other, Pei, is in Tucson working on her PhD at U of Arizona, I often fly to Tucson to visit her. When she visits me in LA, we traveled to San Diego and Santa Barbara to mix things up a bit, but you knew most of this already because you have been keeping up with my posts right?

What did I do for Chinese New Year? Nothing related to it, actually. I visited Pei in Tucson and we went camping Saturday night at the Peppersauce Campground about 40 miles north of Tucson. The camp ground is relatively clean, the camp host is super friendly (he gave us fire wood and matches when we didn't arrive with either), the camping areas are well shaded by TREES (!!), and you can be visited by friendly cows (too bad I didn't get any pictures of them). We had a good time just hanging out, cooked, ate, and watch the fire burn. The hiking around the area isn't so nice though... we hiked up a 4-wheelable road for about 45 minutes before turning back because I was exhausted from suffering from a minor cold.

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