Out in south El Monte is a wonderful exhibition of tanks and old military equipment. it’s basically a big pile of rust and machinery, which is my favorite thing to draw. I went with some of my friends out there to do some practice sketching.

They got hundreds of vehicles and weapons on display.

I was pretty excited to see the infamous LAPD battering ram. I had to draw one of those for Rick and Morty once.

It was a lot to look at, far too much to see in one visit. I’d love to go back sometime.

I didn’t get to spend a ton of time there, but here were my two drawings.

Here is the Drawing Crew by the way, Kevin, Gina, myself, Krstin, and Jyn.

Here you can see us chilling in the junk. The orange missile is actually a target drone that acts like an ICBM for training purposes.

Here are Gina’s drawings which are really cool!

I took Mary and my Mom to the air show out in Camarillo this year. Wings over Camarillo is a really fun smaller air show of in the summer. They have a lot of older planes and smaller displays. But these are some of my favorites.

Its super bright out there, and the shadows are pretty harsh, but here is the B-25 in all its glory.

We got some big yellow beers and enjoyed the planes zoomin past.

Here is Mary standing in from the SNJ Texan.

I found a really cool Boieng Steerman as well.

They have a car show as well at Camarillo. I really like the Cobra.

And they one of my favorite planes, a little Ercoupe on display, it’s so tiny!

Mary and I went to the roller coaster capital of California last weekend, and I brought my film camera!

The park is all decked out for America 250.

Here is us in front of the fountain!

One of the first rides we went on was the Apocalypse! Man, it was bumpy, it reminded me a lot of the Rattler.

We spent some time in the DC Area and rode the Riddler and Wonder woman! I also went on probably my very last ride of the Ninja; it is scheduled to be taken apart this winter, I think.

There are fun new creepy sculptures up!

Her favorite ride was the goliath; we rode it twice! The drop is crazy! and it goes through a tunnel! I love the little statues in the queue line too.

The lighting on the way out was so nice! I loved the little main street USA area. Mary got one of me in front of the ice cream parlor!