October 11

So today is my 2nd day here in vitalmx land, so far it seems pretty cool, when guyb gets the little bugs worked out i think this place could rule the web in popularity...WTG guys, job well done so far. I love waking up in a house here in Las Vegas...for the last year my family and i have done nothing but live in hotels and at the track while shooting, we log around 80,000 miles a year and 50+ races. We are pretty much over the actual traveling, but at the same time we love to move around.  its gonna be hard to leave las vegas right now because this time of the year the weather is so perfect, oh well at least we wont see ohio and snow flying again until just before christmas and then it wont be so bad because we get to go back home to see family we havent seen in 3 months.

 I have been going out nightly on the strip to shoot stock images around that area, it always amazes me that even on a day to day basis the downtown strip seems to change, construction here is perpetual and offers me the greatest variety of juxtaposing angles of any city i have been to. I could shoot here for years and never get bored, but then i still feel that way about shooting motocross, new challenges always arise and its a thrill to overcome them and make the image!

 Danya got a part time job up here as a restaurant manager assistant/waitress and she really likes it, she gets time away to herself and its a change of pace from the grind of seeing nothing but dirt, its upscale so she gets to dress nicely and feel human again, im happy for her.

Kids homeschooling has been fun, Dava was having trouble getting place values and Danya and i were so frustrated with not being able to find a way to teach her, so i tried a visualization technique...i told her to remember every little bit of detail she could remember from her old porch back home in ohio, she told me about the boards that had paint peeling off and how many windows there were, it was very cute watching her squint her eyes to remember...i asked her questions to help her "see" the porch in her mind, then after she gave all the detail she could muster we talked about how could she have possibly remembered all that detail? i told her that her brain was like a big filing cabinet and that even though she didnt realize it, she remembers things that happen to her every day, math is no different, i told her to visualize the place values in her mind and remember the order they came in...in about an hour she finally grasped the concept and still has it a few weeks later.

 See ya in the next blog