Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers

Sometime back in May, I was in the area...

remembering Mary's post about this place (linked at the end), I knew I wanted to stop by Freddy's...

San Pedro Road Trip - Breakfast @ Carl's + Bad Coffee, Costa Mesa

It's time to catch up on posts.  I'm juggling the Spring Break road trip, Carpinteria (I have yet to start it), our visit to the Broad, and now our mini trip to San Pedro to see a specific art exhibit.

Of course, our M.O. is the meandering route, with lots of stops in between...

Starting off the morning with some iPod roulette...

 and bypassing all of the shitty traffic on the 405 by taking the 73 toll road...

Spring Break Road Trip 2017 - Day 1: Tustin to Lost Hills + TC takes over

We left at the ungodly hour of 3:00 am, give or take a few minutes...

Our Spring Break Road trip was on!

The mod McD's in Greenfield

Every time we drive by this town, I snap a photo of the tower...

and then I send it to La Ley who gets a kick out of it...

Norm's Hamburger No. 3

In our past visits to Burbanks, we'd always pass this place...

and say, "Norm" (like in "Cheers").  Today was the day we would finally give it a try. It looks like it's been here forever (and I'm sure it has) and we were craving burgers after all that driving...

Fried pies from McD's

Earlier this morning we had some time to kill before mass while TC did her volunteer service. I had a craving for a hash brown but when I saw this sign (see below)...

we just had to...

Taco Bell, La Bodega and the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club

All right...

I did a drive thru (hangs head in shame)...

Fosters Freeze, Salinas

Breakfast from Java Beach was several hours old and it was time for a quick snack on our long drive down...

We passed by Salinas High School on their Main Street. I read later that the school was founded in 1882 but has been in its present location since 1920 (and rebuilt since then as well).

The look of this "traditional" high school is so different from the ones we have down south...

Coupon Hits & 1 Fail...

I had to buy TC some makeup for dance so it was off to Macy's Mac counter.  While there, we used one of the newer coupons in the Entertainment Value book...

If you buy this, you also get extra online coupons by using their app, which is pretty cool. It's like doubling your investment...

More pitstops - Gorman & Kettleman City

While driving through the LA where we were met with craptastic traffic, I found amusement with this truck...

Heh heh, he said "nuts"....

We had quite a ways to go and unlike TC who was asleep for the majority of the drive, Bert and I took turns driving...

and listening to our various cd's and tinkering with the radio stations as we headed up our great Golden State...

SF Roadtrip Day 4 Highlights

It was a super long drive back...but first, before we left, we had breakfast by this iconic "head"...

located on Sloat Blvd, right across from the Zoo...

Bert would get the first "shift" for our epic drive back on Labor Day Monday...

Seafood Friday - Week 3

It's a Friday once again...and that means seafood...

But first...

Hodor!!!  Just a couple of the buttons I got from Whimsic Alley, coupled with the recent buzz that Kristian Nairn, the actor who plays Hodor is gay (yay! he has a following among bears) which was a nice surprise.

I didn't cook today and this was our first fast food fish item in a long long time...

Fred's

[Update - Closed as of Summer 2015]

On the northeast corner of Palomar and Third is this old fashioned looking burger joint...

We see it all the time whenever we're at Gunco Ramen across the street and have always wondered about it...

Food gifts

A few days ago when I met up with Cathy of mmm-yoso, we exchanged a few food gifts...

Wrapped in the wax paper was a baked delicacy I'd never had before...

Stray lunches, random pix and more

It's another one of those "random" pix posts...

This is the view of the 805 from the H Street Bridge. The freeway median is being converted to HOV lanes...

and will supposedly be finished by 2014. Hmmm, we'll see about that. I really hate how the lanes are super narrow now because of this.

It's been a super hot and humid week too....

Tokyo Grill & In 'n Out Burger

The other night we hosted TC's very first sleepover and SURVIVED. Six teen/tween girls.

The girls were out before noon. Later that evening, we took TC and two other friends (one classmate and KDD) to see this manufactured boyband propaganda movie directed by, of all people, Morgan "Supersize Me" Spurlock:

Well, I just bought the tickets but we did not watch it ourselves...

I still cringe from having to watch that Justin Bieber flick a few years ago...

To kill time Bert and I resorted to window shopping, browsing, and enjoyed a snack before taking the girls to a late dinner after the movie...

Surf 'n Turf from Panda Express

Sometime last week, the coworkers and I went to the local Panda Express...

Mr. TJ was happy that they started offering brown rice...

We thought that our wait in line (we were number 3) would be short. How very fkg wrong we were...

KFC & a mish mash of other things

A few weeks ago, I did what I hardly do...

which is, I went to a drive through....

TC had a dress rehearsal for a recital and I went to the nearby joint to get her a little something for dinner...

Eastwind Drive-In

Now from what I've read, any visitor to the Cascade Locks area HAS to visit this place, which you can see by the big ice cream cone sign...

Who cares if it was raining? We wanted burgers AND ice cream and nothing was going to change our minds about it...

Sweet Potato Fries @ Carl's Jr.

A few weeks ago, we stopped by Carl Karcher Enterprises, aka Carl's Jr. (near Zion Hospital) to grab a quick bite for TC.

This was the same Carl's that Bert was eating lunch at when I went into labor nearly twelve years ago. I remember begging the nurse to page him (ha ha, "page", remember this was 2000)! He was only gone for 30 minutes but it felt like a lifetime! So anyhow, this is THE same one that we fondly remember as his lunch break visit before TC was born...

But what did we get here? Hmmmm...