I think Ducati Island passes need to be picked up on Friday morning for the weekend but my memory could be wrong. So that's one bonus to taking a few days off.
I remember the one year I went I rode up there at the crack of dawn to get my pass and then rode back to SLO to and was 20 minutes late for work.
![Tongue](http://ducatimonsterforum.org/Smileys/classic/tongue.gif)
Then I rode out just for race day.