Anti-Black Friday & Small Business Saturday 2018

It was a beautiful morning in Golden Hill...

on the shopping day known as "Black Friday"...

Return to Golden Hill Cafe + Dark Horse Coffee & Por Vida

Trying to catch up on previous unposted posts folks.

I'm finally getting around to posting these pix from last year...

Paradise Hills Night Market 2017 recap

Talk about procrastination...

(not us, but some other folks we were following as we headed to Penn Athletic Field)
This is a post for last year's Paradise Hills Night Market...

which debuted last year and will be returning....

Anny's Fine Burgers, Kearny Mesa

It was Veteran's weekend and we were out and about.

We had just gone to a local comic book shop and thought we'd stop at this burger place for lunch...

Dinner & drinks @ Caffe Calabria

It was another Friday night...

TC was out with the boyfriend and Bert had a craving for pizza...

"Those We Keep" mural, Imperial Beach

Bert and I were out and about last weekend.

Before shopping for groceries, we made a stop here...

Bolsa revisit

A few weeks ago, I had a craving for banh hoi

This was one of the places recommended by Kirk (the other one was now defunct) and since we hadn't been here in awhile...

TORC's Birthday Crawl: Stops 5 & 6 - Pop Pie (revisit) + Stella Jean's Ice Cream

Our last two stops for TORC's bday crawl was here...

over in University Heights...

Mutual Friend Ice Cream

Earlier last month we visited a new ice cream place,

which is located right next to Dark Horse Coffee in Golden Hill...

Food crawl - Marleez Koffee, Nhu Y, Mi Quang Mien Trung

Last weekend was spent with Bert and some friends for a food crawl...

My friend had specifically requested one since it had been about three years since we last went out...

Glow mural in Manzanita Canyon & the Ocean Discovery Institute

We reparked the car so we could be closer to the pathway...

From up on the hill at the Manzanita Gathering Place, there was a steep walkway down...

Glow & Alex Banach art installation at Manzanita Gathering Place

After our visit to the new City Heights Coffee House...

I asked Bert if we could find a mural in a canyon...

City Heights Coffee House revisits

This past fall, Bert and I made a quick stop here...

but sadly, the shop was not yet open...

Fall/Specialty Drinks at Cafe Virtuoso, Moniker, Holsem & Black Stag

Fall is almost over with winter on the way,

with the new season are new drinks at some of the coffee joints that I frequent...

TORC's Birthday Crawl: Stop 3 - Return to Jaunt Coffee Roasters

I liked this place so much last time...

I came back but this time with the gal pals...

Return to Sarap Filipino Kitchen: Stop 2 of TORC's Birthday Crawl

Our second stop that morning was here...

at the new'ish Sarap over by the Pyramid on Miramar Road...

TORC's Birthday Crawl - Stop 1: Copa Vida, Sorrento Valley

A few weeks ago the Educator GF's and I were out on a belated birthday crawl,

this time to celebrate TORC...

Elijah's revisit + Scrimshaw

Bert and I had a free morning...

and I had a coupon in my wallet for this place...