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Laguna Seca MotoGP

Here's a few photos of my motorbike trip to Laguna Seca raceway in Monterey, California for the MotoGP United States Grand Prix. I drove out to LA, then rode up the coast to the track and camped on the infield of the track for the weekend.

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Ready for the Drive to LA

The Speed Triple had a Rocket III and Buell for company

Oops! The bag fell off while going down the road! Luckily, I didn't go down and the damage was minor.

On PCH - Pacific Coast Highway - half way between San Luis Obispo and Monterey, California

Camping on the infield of the track at Laguna Seca

Burritos+camping=perfect

The mornings were damp, foggy and 50°F

The sun prevailed after 11am or so every day.

Valentino Rossi

My perch for watching the races

Turn 6 just below the camping area.

Cannery Row, downtown Monterey.

The camping really filled up by Sunday

Dog Vacation

Dog vacation to San Diego for the July 4th weekend:

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Dog is my copilot.

At the dog park in San Diego's Balboa Park.

Chico's friend, Koa. 

Koa likes the shade... a lot.

Chico relaxing in the hotel room. This reminds me of photos of presidents in the oval office deep in thought. 

At the dog beach on Coronado Island. 

Lots of dogs at the dog beach. 

Lots of people and dogs at the dog beach by mid day. 

The boardwalk at Mission Beach. The area was packed with people but the beach wasn't too busy.

Capela de Ossos y A Igreja do Carmo

The Capela de Ossos (Chapel of Bones) is a small single room chapel in the rear of A Igreja do Carmo (The Church of Caramel or Church of Our Lady Mount Caramel) in Faro, Portugal. The story, as I understand it, is that the churchyard was the only open land available when the modern A Igreja do Carmo was built. The problem was that the land was also the grave sites to the monks who had served the adjacent monastery. The solution was the excavate the corpses and make a monument with the bones. 


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Outside the Igreja do Carmo

The interior, like all Spanish and Portuguese Catholic churches 
we visited, was heavily gilded and highly ornate. 

Look closely and you can see the recesses that once held the monks' skulls
 and bones which didn't survive 200 years of weather exposure.

Jessica standing in the entrance to the Capela de Ossos

Some of the grave sites that remained.