Oh yeah - there was this bike race thing going on too!

Okay, this was heavy duty. We had been marshalling this corner for about three hours by this point. The crowd was building up around the course, but we were out in the middle of nowhere on the circuit course around the city of Santa Rosa. We were waiting and waiting.

All of sudden, we hear this low-flying helicopter come into town around 2:10pm and we hear this HUGE roar coming from the crowd around the course - estimated at about 46,000. There were three helicopters, two airplanes and I would say probably 50 cops on motorcycles following and leading the peloton. Just too cool for words. And these guys were moving!