Day 6
Friday, September 2nd


So this would be a pretty chill day for us. Woke up, Chuck made us breakfast, and then we sat and talked about what we wanted to do for the day / weekend. Chuck had a last minute invite to see some friends up near Mammoth Mountain, and he suggested we fly up there for a day or two before heading home. Then we discussed the epic-ness of the season finale race on Saturday, and I was still kinda on the fence. Chuck got me excited about the race and kinda pushed me back in that direction...

"You should go."

Then Chuck took us on a short tour of the LA area and we grabbed some lunch at one of his spots...


We spotted a banner-tower near the Santa Monica pier. Kinda cool...

Also, during lunch we basically decided to just rent a car and drive to and from the races on Saturday. Originally I wanted to fly into the French Valley airport (F70) near Murrieta and Temecula, California, get a rental car and hotel room, and depart the area in my plane on Sunday morning. However, that was going to be kinda a hasssle so we just rented a sweet BMW throuth Turo and had them drop it off at the Whiteman airport. That way we could stay at Chucks after the races (unfortunately it is about a 2 hour drive from the motocross track), get up on Sunday morning, and just drive back to the airport to drop off the car (about a 20 minute drive) before hopping in the plane to leave California.

Anyhow, all the rental car nonsense took way longer than expected, and we didn't get the car until late in the afternoon. By the time we got it Chuck had already left for his weekend trip to Mammoth Mountain with the fam. Fortunately he was okay with us returning to his house without him being there (he is such a sweet person and I can't ever compliment him enough), so we went back to Santa Clarita for Friday night.

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