Some photos of my first NFL game thank you to Vinh and Clinton for taking me! 

Hello all Royal Origin readers! My name is James Baxter and I’m happy to be coming aboard as one of Royal Origin’s newest bloggers. I am based out of Southern California and like to shoot portraits, automotive, and cityscapes. While those may be my areas of focus I shoot anything that catches my eye really; never leave your camera behind! I have been shooting for a little over a year now and I love it more and more with each passing day. I can’t wait to bring everyone more content for you all to enjoy! In the mean time, I leave with you this, my first trip of the year, San Francisco!
I told myself at the beginning of the year that I was going to travel more in 2015 and I made sure my first spot was going to be in one of my favorite cities, San Francisco.
I did not get wet taking this photo somehow.
On the first day I got to San Francisco it was raining really hard, so at the first sign of day break I went out and started exploring.
After hanging around the Golden Gate Bridge for a while and the surrounding area I decided to cross the bridge to venture into the woods.
Muir Woods Nation Forest is awesome and I recommend it to anyone who’s going to be in San Francisco.
Its about a two hour long hike if you do the whole trial but its totally worth it.
Muir Woods is just such a pretty peaceful pace, definitely a nice escape from the rush of Los Angeles.
On the way back over the bridge I decided to take some more pictures and wait until sundown.
It was getting really foggy the later it got, and thats actually a Cruise Ship going under the bridge.
San Francisco is an awesome city, unfortunately I went right in the middle of a huge storm and didn’t get to walk around much. That being said I’ll definitely be visiting again very soon. But San Francisco is just one of the many stops I’ll be taking this year and I can’t wait to share it all with you and bring you all more photos.

Once again we will be making the 400 mile journey from Southern California to Northern California for the traditional Wekfest SF in San Jose, CA on Saturday, July 27th 2013. This year we are official vendors at the event and will be having even more cars on display. So, please come check out the Royal Origin area as well as our other friends at Wekfest SJ. We will be making it rain with goodies to all the attendees, so don’t miss out.
And for everyone not making the journey to Wekfest SJ, come check out Played Out by Rotiform and the Players from United Kingdom. This is the second annual Played Out in Sunset Beach, CA on Saturday, July 27th. We will also have a few cars there showing support.
So mark your calendars and make time for either event. You will not be disappointed.
See you guys at Wekfest SJ and Played Out.
-Shavi W.

Our Wekfest weekend began on Thursday night. The roadtrip wasn’t too bad, well for me and Minh it wasn’t. We were basically KTFO the whole time, while “Roadtrip Warrior” Shavi chauffeured us all the way there to NorCal. The following day I hit up Andy @Fatlace, and told us to slide thru the Fatlace Paddock and he gladly showed us around. We got to see all the cool stuff going around the shop/warehouse. We also got to meet a lot of the Fatlace Crew members who were very nice and welcoming. We kicked it there for awhile, took some pictures of the nice shop cars and they even fed us some awesome BBQ! Thanks to the Fatlace crew for the hospitality!
Here’s the “Road Trip Warrior” getting ready to bounce
At the Paddock in San Mateo
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The day before Wekfest, we decided to venture around San Francisco city. We journeyed into the city looking for some good food. We also decided to act like tourist and take pictures of everything. Our initial plan was to get some Sushirrito (a sushi burrito) , unfortunately they are closed on the weekends. We were “hella” bummed out.
We ended eating at a random Tri-tip joint, which was pretty good.

Royal Origin will be making a trip out to San Francisco for Wekfest this year. We aren’t exactly taking all our cars there, but just enjoying a little trip out of Southern California to visit our brothers and sister of the North, and those coming in from all over the world for this one.
These are some of the places that we will be visiting or at least plan on visiting as we approach our final destination are the following:
1. Fatlace Paddock – San Mateo, CA
2. RWB USA Headquarters – San Mateo, CA
3. Canibeat Pre-Wekfest Meet – Fremont, CA
4. TBA
If you meet any of us, be sure to say “hi”, and ask about our Royal Origin stickers we will be carrying with us, cause you could get some for free. We are pretty excited as for some of us going this will be our first time at the original San Francisco edition Wekfest (even though this is the alternate location now). So, we hope everyone else is as excited as we are.
-Shavi W