55 Thai Kitchen, SDSU location

Yesterday was TC's orientation...

at good ole SDSU...

Rainbow latte version 2 from S3 Coffee Bar + lunch at Purple Mint

New cute wall for all of those millenials taking selfies, ha...

Trendy with the cactus and the pop of pink with the old school rotary phone...

Drinks round up...

Recent drinks enjoyed...

from various coffee shops around San Diego...

Dinner at Siam Imperial + Oasis (again)

The new school year started...

and I was glad that the first week was finished, hence, a Friday night out for us two...

Lemon Grove Breezeway Mural project

While driving out of the back alley after having seen the new murals.

I spied this bright and sunny mural...

Lemon Grove murals in alley

In downtown Lemon Grove, new artwork has gone up.

...in the form of murals that are hidden behind the buildings...

Portland Day 4: Return to Collage + murals in Alberta Arts District

TC was excited to go this craft shop again...

I remember we had fun shopping for tiny jewelry findings back in 2012...

Portland Day 4: Coava Coffee, SE Portland

Coava is a roaster local to Portland...

This was one of their newer locations...

Himalayan House, Chula Vista

On the southeast corner of Broadway and E is a new restaurant,

which is next to a check cashing/notary establishment. I was excited that South San Diego  now has an Indian/Himalayan/Nepalese eatery.

Portland Day 4: Excalibur Comics + Vintage Pink

After our fun stop at TOV Coffee House...

we made our de rigeur stop at a local comic shop...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 3 - Anthony Bourdain mural at the Gramercy, Santa Monica

As we all know earlier on June 8th...

the world lost a culinary icon and travel documentarian, Anthony Bourdain...

Summer Road Trip 2013 Day 3 - DK's Donuts, Santa Monica

Heard about this place and was curious.

Although we already had doughnuts earlier at Sidecar...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 3 - Father's Day Lunch @ Santa Monica Seafood

We were actually here earlier, waiting for the place to open at 9 am...

Unbeknownst to me, the market was only open and the restaurant would not be serving food until 11 am...

Summer Road Trip Day 3 - Good People Coffee Co., Sawtelle

We headed east on Santa Monica Blvd. for our fix...

to four month old coffee shop, Good People Coffee Co.

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 3 - Sidecar Doughnuts & Coffee, Santa Monica

Bright and early...

Graced with the ginormous, "Beach Day" mural by bumblebeelovesyou, this building housed our first stop of the morning...

Summer Road Trip 2018 - Day 2: Visits to Giant Robot, Giant Robot 2 + Coffee Tomo

It was cool to see the Giant Robot store still around...

For those that don't know, Giant Robot was a bi-monthly Asian American pop culture magazine that ran from 1994 up to 2011....

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Dinner Part 2: Sushi Stop

The ramen place on the corner, Tsujita had a long ass line out the door...

Sushi stop a few doors down, no line...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Dinner part 1: Big Boi Filipino Comfort Food, Sawtelle

Fast forward to a few hours later...we hadn't been on this street since TC was a toddler and Giant Robot had the now defunct hipster-before-hipster-was-a-thing at GR Eats back in 2003...

We parked at an overpriced lot with a mafia looking dude collecting money...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams, Venice

The words "ice cream" were calling our names.

It was RIGHT THERE across the street...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Flake, Venice

TC chose a restaurant that was off Abbot Kinney Blvd...

She read that it was a locals spot...

Portland Day 4 - ToV Coffee House

I didn't have coffee earlier that morning when we did the aerial tram. Hospital coffee isn't my thing, ha ha.

I wanted us to try this place I read about prior to our trip...

Curry 'n Kabab

Vacation is almost over for me.  Tomorrow I return to work, ugh...

but I at least had a few good lunches spent with friends...

Mexipino Craft

Yesterday I was out with two of the Educator GF's...

TORC was MIA but will hopefully join D, KD and I in our future excursion...

West Pac Noodle Bar

This post was originally written to go out in late January of this year, however, I decided to wait it out because I wasn't sure if we would revisit...turns out we didn't, for reasons which will be discussed later in this post...

But hey, enjoy this awesome view of the San Diego skyline while crossing the Coronado Bridge...

Bert and I were off to visit my mom...

Avian Sandwich

Am trying to clean up old posts before they go by the wayside...

This particular day, I was out and about, I thought I would try the sandwich shop next to Thuan Phat...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Coffee & pastries from Intelligentsia, Venice + random street art

It was a short walk from the canals to Intelligentsia...

One thing about going early is that it's more peaceful out and there are no crowd...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Venice Canals + Boardwalk + street art

Our original plan was to go to the beach in Santa Monica...

but it was the low 60's and overcast, so Plan B it was...

An's Dry Cleaning Gelato

Our pre-anniversary dessert would be at this establishment on Adams Ave....

located in between  Hawthorn Coffee and Tajima Ramen...

23rd Anniversary Dinner @ Tribute Pizza

We really like this place and were finally able to bring TC with us

for our anniversary dinner...

23rd Anniversary - Breakfast at Little Lion Cafe + OB

Another year just flew by...

in which Bert and I celebrated twenty three years of marriage...