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...

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...