9/9/07 – 0938
Green Bay, WI
Doc’s Lot – looking northeast

I wanted to post this earlier, but got kinda busy this week. Anyways, even though I have been, am and always will be a Chicago Bears fan, I will say that Lambeau Field (Home of the Green Bay Packers) is almost always a good time (not being a Packers fan can create issues). The location is wonderful. You’re driving through a medium size suburban town residential zone and there sits the stadium. So yes, lots of “lawn parking” is used to accomodate the ticket holders and generate some good cash for Lambeau’s neighbors. Thankfully, this does not create a damper on the tailgating. Mmmmmmmm, brats….. (in the voice of Homer Simpson) The bar scene is better than it used to be since they built up the Stadium View area a few years back. The younger crowd tends to drift that way as there’s way more bar space over there. Kroll’s is the classic venue, but always packed (no pun intended) to the brim. The Kroll’s lot always has a decent live band as well. So if I’m not tailgaiting, I tend to wander that way.

It’s about 3:15h in the car one way for me to get up there. So the Bears game was waiting for me when I got home. Anyways, I have access to a few tickets every year and went to this went to see the home opener against the Eagles. And since I am not a fan of either green-clad team, I may very sure to not wear anything that would indicate I may be cheering for either team. We can’t have that. Though, I was leaning towards the Eagles as I picked them over GB on Yahoo’s Pickem game. Way to muff your kick returns Philly… My Bears make the trip up here in October. More to come on that later…

9/8/07 – Dublin, CA

Yes folks, cars are FUN. Getting work done to your car when it is not absolutely done for upgrade reasons is not fun. Day two, night time already? Yeah. A weekend of no car and the emptying of your pockets only to watch for half a day while your car spits out green coolant from a system that will just not burp and let the air out of it’s lines is not my idea of fun. Test driving your car you owe too much money on still and having it instantly shoot to the red zone of death temperature-wise is even worse. Finally, when your mechanic realizes that the exact high pressure cap that is specificed with the all aluminum performance radiator you bought has been the cause of all the headaches during the final stages of a complete timing belt replacement and custom radiator conversion with separated tranny fluid cooling system….. you want to kill someone. The pictures you took of your car bellowing out steam and green goo make for a good laugh when you finally get around to that full throttle thrill ride to beat the hell out of your newly refreshed toy just to see if you can break what has just been done and it purrs like a tiger (or possibly a small snoring gnome that makes snoring sounds like a kitten). It’s good to have my wrx back. Time to get back out and get some pictures of this silly little place we call the San Francisco Bay Area. Vroom…motherfucking vroom.