Foodcrawl with Cathy - Stops 5, 6, 7 & 8 - Star Dust Donuts, DK-Che, Gloria's Bakery & Gonzalez Panaderia

Continuing the food crawl with Cathy...

we hit the jackpot when we saw Star Dust open!

"Those We Keep" mural, Imperial Beach

Bert and I were out and about last weekend.

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

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...

Mural for SAY (Social Advocates for Youth), City Heights

During Fall Break we noticed something ne

This mural is located in an alley...

Brings Me Peace mural, City Heights

I was out and about one weekend and saw the multicolored hand...

I ended up making a U-turn somewhere....

Revamped murals in Glow's Art Alley

Sometime over the Fall Break, I did a revisit to an art alley...

which was in Azalea Park in City Heights...

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...

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)...

Lemon Grove Breezeway Mural project

While driving out of the back alley after having seen the new murals.

I spied this bright and sunny mural...

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...

Portland Day 3 - Otto's Sausage Kitchen & Meat Market

Still in the SE quadrant of Portland...

we headed to the Woodstock neighborhood for some exploration...

Carpinteria Day 2 - The Franklin Trail

We were up pretty damn early...

to make our way to a formerly defunct trail that had recently reopened after four decades...

Portland Day 2 - Return to Movie Madness (formerly known as Mike's Movie Madness)

The morning's events were quite exciting...

and we would later end up watching news coverage later that evening...

Portand Day 2 - "March for Our Lives" Portland

The streets in downtown were marked with red circles and X's...

("Unity" mural by Kristen T. Ramirez on SW Morrison St.)

Certain streets downtown were closed because of the event happening this particular day...

Portland Day 1 - Prince Mural + Motivasi Coffee

Two years ago after Prince died,

I kept seeing many artistic tributes pop up in various cities...

"No Apartheid - Wall of Justice Revival" mural by Mario Torero on Imperial Ave

While on the way to our second coffee stop, Imperial Grounds...

we spotted this mural from afar...

Prince! On the walls of Sandra Dee's BBQ

The sun was still up...

and we were trying to beat the clock...

The Grounds Bean Bar

During the winter break,  I made plans to visit a newish coffee  bar in PB...

Accompanying me this particular morning was a former co-worker and friend...

Salt & Straw + more street art in Little Italy

It was time to head back to India Street...

I didn't want to wait in a long line...