National Coffee Day - Stops 1, 2 & 3: Public Square Coffee House, Dark Horse La Mesa & Altered Ego Cafe + Lunch @ Pho Duyen Mai

Yesterday's post should have been today,

but I'm too lazy to make this chronological...

Altered Ego Cafe and Hideout @ Southern California Comics + last stop of our Coffee Crawl on National Coffee Day

Still in vacation mode...

I was happy that Bert and I were able to spend this morning exploring not only coffee shops...

Dinner at Farmer's Bottega

Fall break has been nice...

spending time with friends...

Sarap Filipino Kitchen

After my twocup caffeine fix at Jaunt,

it was just a short drive to a new Filipino restaurant on Miramar Road...

Jaunt Coffee Roasters

Before meeting up with Kirk at a new restaurant in Mira Mesa,

I headed over to a new coffee place in an industrial park...

SDRW Lunch @ Great Maple + new fall drinks from Cafe Virtuoso

Yesterday I had the pleasure of having an early lunch,

with a friend and former co-worker...

Return to Nhu Y

Not even a few weeks later...

we were back, this time with TC...

Mi Quang Mien Trung (formerly Da Nang)

TC was out with friends this evening.

It's been bittersweet for her since many are moving out of San Diego to attend their respective universities...

Birthday breakfast with MFH @ Little Lion Cafe

Although MFH's birthday was early September...

we were able to mutually meet up this weekend...

Star Wars stencil art, Sicilian Thing Pizza + drinks at Caffe Calabria

On a recent Friday night out...

we saw these cool stencils on a lone utility box...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl: Stop #7 - Pamela's Kitchen Table

Our last stop would be lunch. Us gals gotta eat, right?

We were actually going to leave Little Italy and play it by ear for lunch...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl: Stops 4, 5 & 6 - Little Italy Farmer's Market, the new Little Italy Food Hall & Blick

It was nice walking around earlier before the crowds...

as we made our way back to the main drag...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl Stop 3: Portal Coffee

I saw online that a new coffee shop had opened...

on the outskirts of Little Italy...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl Stop 2: Devil's Dozen Donut Shop

Devil's Dozen has been open since 2015...

and to be honest, I haven't wanted to go because of their limited flavor selection...

D's Belated Birthday Crawl Stop 1: Return to Herb & Eatery

Although D's birthday was in early August...

we were only recently able to do her birthday crawl earlier today...

Bert's Birthday Dinner @ Tribute

Instead of seafood, which Bert usually wants on a special occasion,

he wanted Pizza...

Coffee Stops for Bert's Birthday Crawl - HOB Coffee + Mostra!

Since we were up in this area...

we took the scenic neighborhood route from The French Oven...

Bert's Birthday Crawl - The French Oven, Scripps Ranch

Today is Bert's birthday (we are 148 days apart; I've always taken his word for that too, ha ha),

and as has been our custom over the past few years...what better way to start a birthday weekend than to head out early for a crawl...

The Top Gun House in Oceanside + the Oceanside Pier

From Panels we walked a few blocks south...

to check out a house that was featured in "Top Gun"...

Return to Petite Madeline and Panels Comic Book Coffee Bar

It was really nice driving along the coast. No traffic!

And no crowds (yet)...and easy to find parking on the streets...

Return to Tip Top Meats

It was Labor Day weekend.

and time for a revisit to Tip Top with Bert...

Ryan Brothers Coffee, Lemon Grove + the Giant Lemon and the Lips rock

I didn't realize that Ryan Bros Coffee had set up shop here in this historic Streamline Moderne corner shop in downtown Lemon Grove...

Thankfully replacing Charbucks (which moved down the street as a drive-thru)...

El Clasico Diner, Lemon Grove

Weekends for me are about exploring places...

with Bert and TC. This morning, however, it was just Bert....