Mission Hills Nursery

As we were driving on Fort Stockton while looking for the coffee place, we saw the Mission Hills nursery and made a mental note to visit before driving back home...

I hadn't been here in a long time, as in before TC was born...

Espresso Mio

After our excellent lunch at Supannee House of Thai, the sun actually came out of hiding...

we made our way out of cloudy Point Loma and headed to Mission Hills. There was a coffee place there I hadn't tried yet...

Win Fook

*This restaurant is now CLOSED

We had a great time exploring the tiled staircases of the Inner Sunset and now it was time to grab some lunch...Instead of going back on Noriega which was pretty busy, we headed down Judah and then cut across. So much better since there was hardly any traffic.

This was our original lunch destination, the literally named "Pizza Place on Noriega".

but alas, it was not to be...

Porky's, the restaurant not the nasty 80's flick

Last month Bert and I were doing errands in between several events. His mother's 80th birthday was coming up and we wanted to check out this place for their lechon...

I found the name amusing, Porky's. As in Pig. NOT As in gross horny 80's sexploitation flick:

Those of you over 40 should get this reference. The rest of you, the trailer is posted at the end...

So, Porky's is in the same shopping center as Seafood City (National City location)....

Supannee House of Thai with TC

Earlier today TC and I ventured out to Point Loma to try her parents' favorite Thai place (besides Sab e Lee)...

She was curious because she knew how much we liked it...

I was happy to find out that they opened at 11 am on weekdays...

Hidden Garden Steps

In retrospect we could have walked here from the Mosaic Steps on 16th Avenue...

but instead, we reparked and found out it was only a few streets away...

Grand View Park

Once we reached the top of the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, we hung a right where we saw yet another set of steps...

which weren't tiled but which is on an area known to locals as "Turtle Hill"...

The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps

The morning was still young so we ventured to the Inner Sunset neighborhood...

 to check out the 16th Avenue Tiled steps, also known as the Mosaic Steps (sometimes even called the Moraga Steps)...

Amarin Thai

Yesterday Mr. TJ and I took a few former students out to lunch...

Although hidden in the photo above, Amarin Thai is right next to the Alibi bar in Hillcrest, right on the corner of University and Richmond. It's also across from Filter Coffee House.

You can't miss this wall on the side of the Alibi...

This was the first time I'd ever seen it but TC has seen the wall on other peoples' Instagrams.  I didn't contribute to the wall but others did, some are hilarious (and even X-rated)...

Lion Coffee, Balboa

Handily, the same strip mall as Tropical Star was the Lion Coffee kiosk which opened late 2014.

I remember this being another coffee place in the past as well..

It's been awhile...return to Tropical Star

So far we've had San Diego's infamous (yet normal) June Gloom...

I was craving a fried pastelillo...TC was game for anything that afternoon.

I'd been wanting to come back here for so long so today was the day...