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 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 1 - Santa Monica Pier

We hadn't been to Santa Monica in a couple of years...

(view of the pier from afar, while on Ocean Ave)

TC was happy to see "action" because for our last visit, it was waaaay early in the morning, however...

Summer Road Trip 2016 - Tustin + Santa Monica

Finally,  back to the summer road trip posts...

when we left in the dead of the morning to beat the traffic and make it on time for THH's opening...

after our normal pee stop at the Starbucks off the Red Hill exit in Tustin...

We were not in a particular hurry...