Mission Peak

Yesterday my friends and I went to hike Mission Peak in Fremont. Most of the group, including myself, were first timers! Mission peak is a local hiking trail that's famous in our area because of how difficult the trek is. The round trip is 6.25mi with an elevation change of 2100ft.

This was the view near the bottom, and our destination point was at the very top where those grey rocks are located.

We barely past the first marker point and most of us were already complaining LOL. The only one who wasn't complaining was my little boy, Bubble, who's a really active Jack Russel/Rat Terrier mix.

I think this was the view from the first marker o.o 

The higher we got, the more beautiful the scenery became. It's amazing looking at the view because the whole Bay Area was visible. 

We had a few run ins with some cattle, who didn't really care we were there. 

Bubble decided the cattle were too close to us and started growling and getting angry lol. Little guys an idiot xD

At one of the markers, I was reminded of the Korean Movie, "A Moment to Remember." The tree just gave me the same vibe I felt in the movie. Too bad the group I was with was just a bunch of my closest homeboys and one of their little sisters lol. FOREVER ALONE.

As we got higher, the slower everyone became. I decided to go at my own speed and started power walking up the rest of the way with Bubble. He was panting, but his tail was wagging crazily. I wasn't sure if he was exhausted, or just enjoying himself. Once we got to the rocky area, he was jumping from rock to rock, showing me what the Jack Russel part of his blood was bred for; working in the field. 

About 10 minutes later Bubble and I were the first in our group to make it to the top. Everyone else came in about 3 minutes later. At the top I was just looking at the people there, there was quite a few cute asian girls xD I let Bubble off his leash and let him roam around. As soon as everyone got back up, I finally realized that the view was spectacular! That difficult journey up made it twice as amazing. 

We reached the top around sunset, so the lighting made me feel all warm and gooey inside x.x

Then everyone started taking pictures, and I took my picture just being myself ;x

The sun started going down, so we decided to make our way back down. Not even 3/4 of the way down, we got stuck in darkness x.x

I was having a lot of difficulty seeing, as I didn't bring my glasses with me. I was only able to see about 10ft in front of me. I was mainly relying on Bubble to lead me LOL. 

The darkness was actually beneficial to us because we couldn't see where our destination was. It made it seem faster to get down the hill because all of us were just looking down, looking for the solid parts of the trail so we wouldn't slip, fall, and die lol. We didn't even realize that we were at the end until we saw the parking lot. 

This was actually a very good experience. It inspired me to work harder because the feeling of achievement felt some what unreal. I know we're not the fitness group out there, as our cardio isn't up to par, but we're making our way to a better lifestyle. 

Workout Achievement!

I was able to hit and rep 75lbs dumbbells today on the incline chest press. Now I have that crack line in my tits xD

A 240 Story

It was around late 2008/early 2009 when I got a deal from a guy for a 1990 240sx SE fastback with 123k miles. It was involved in a front end collision which involved someone running a red light and hitting the 240's front end, cause it to be a total loss. The owner bought the car back from the insurance and was looking to sell it for $1400. It was equiped with Stance GR+ coilovers, Tein inner and outter tie rods, front and rear strut bars, Z brakes in the front, and an Injen intake. I offered to do some work on his other car in trade for the 240. The next thing I know, I was the owner of an s13 fastback.  I received the car in this condition without the wheels.

I started working on it slowly, first by pulling the frame and cutting off the old and damaged radiator support

I was then lucky enough to acquire a free fastback shell which was sitting in front my friends house. I then towed it to my shop and began taking the front end off.

After the frame was straightened, I screwed on the radiator support on the car and welded it, threw on a Mishimoto radiator and began mocking up the panels

Time came around to paint it.

For some reason, the tow yard ended up breaking the windshield so I had to have that replaced.

After quite a few sets of tires, a few wall taps, and a good amount of seat time, I ended up getting impounded for street drifting lol. The cop only charged me with exhibition of speed with 2 years of driving probation.

I got it out and about a year later, I found another car that I wanted to trade. This is how she looked before I traded her

The new platform I traded for is actually a '95 S14 Base.

It was already equipped with an HID's and LED's, lightened flywheel, Injen intake, Custom exhaust, Q45 brakes with 5 lug conversion, Apex'i N1 EvX coilovers, Megan RLCA's, and Wicked Tuning RUCA's. <The problems the car came with were some electrical issues with the windows(wouldn't go up or down), missing heater hose, messed up aftermarket tension rods, a bad tranny mount bushing, which was supposedly "blown." I already bought a new slave for the "blown" tranny lol. </p><p>Kit and I started ripping apart the car and took the dash out within 30 minutes to see if the under dash harness was hacked. 

Upon ripping apart the rest of the car I found out that the previous owner was a big fan of the tumblr blog FuckYeahAznGirls, which is completely fine by me lol.

Here's a pic again with another s14 that I'm working on as a side job

I picked up some used Tein Inners and Outters for $100

Then I found a Kaaz 1.5 way for $400

Then I bartered some work for some Yamato Garage Tension Rods

My whole team, Late Night Mischief, registered for Fatlace/Word up on September 22, 2012.  There's going to be a lot of exposure on there so I need to step my game up and get this car going.