Saturday morning, we rolled out from Flying J's in Ripon CA, heading west to the frist stop of the day 96 miles away, I alone knowing where and what we are going to see.

Our group, Myself and Heather, Jerry, Kyle and Brooke, Richard, and Jimmy with his daughter Brittany. Missing from the group is Kenny (bearkiller) I will post his story soon.

Our stop is The Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, one of the largest and most significant collections of historical military vehicles in the world. The goal is to acquire, restore, and interpret the historical significance of 20th and 21st century military vehicles. Domestic and foreign combat vehicles such as tanks, armored cars, self-propelled artillery, and other technically interesting mobile platforms are the focus of the collection. They also maintain an extensive technical library that describes many vehicles down to the part level. Aside from the vehicles, there are towed artillery, antitank, and antiaircraft guns. Military support equipment, inert ordnance, and accessories round out the collection.

There are over 200 vehicles in the Foundation's collection, many of them exceedingly rare. The Military Vehicle Technology Foundation is proud to have in its collection one of the rarest armored vehicles in the world, a fully restored Panther Ausf. A. Only 28 Panthers are known to have survived the war, in conditions ranging from wrecks to fully restored. The MVTF Panther will be one of the six Panthers in running condition.

The tours takes about 2-3 hours, covering 4 football size building, I took 260 photo, you can see them all at myspace page   View Simmbad's Album: "Military Vehicle Technology Foundation"

After our stop at the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation

We headed up Page Mill Rd to Skyline and Alices Restaurant

At Alices, some of the group had to head home, While the rest us traveled out to Hwy 1 and south to Santa Cruz CA