In those final days, our adventures kept us tethered close to Anaheim, cleaning our hotel rooms, gathering souvenirs, and worrying that the airport would not choose to jettison nearly a thousand dollars worth of wine (Mom’s frequent and incessant doubts, to be honest, worried me. I imagined ourselves forced to drink thirty-six impounded bottles in [...]
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West Coastin’: Last Call
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, tagged advice, Anaheim, cakes, California, chicken, deer, dessert, dining, Don't Stop Believing, food, humor, hunting, Journey, L.A., Los Angeles, restaurants, San Diego, slush, sushi, travel, wine on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
West Coastin’: Daring Disney
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, tagged Alice, awkward game, blogs, California, castle, Cheshire Cat, dares, Disney, Disneyland, Disneyworld, family, Florida, food, haunted mansion, humor, Indiana Jones, Julie and Julia, life, movies, rocks, theme parks, Tower of Terror, travel on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dasad, I discovered had never experienced the beautiful chaos that is the Disney theme parks. This realization shocked me a little, as Dad has our yearly exodus to Florida planned and booked at least a year in advance (Typically, the week after returning to Maryland, growls are heard, demanding our schedules for next summer). Visiting [...]
West Coastin’: Geek Out
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, anime, tagged anime, bubble tea, burgers, California, Chrysler Sebring, fast food, figures, food, humor, In and Out Burger, Japan, Japantown, life, luggage, manga, noodles, questions, ramen, San Francisco, soba, Teana-Lanster, travel, udon, wine on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The next morning after a breakfast of oatmeal and microwaved egg sandwiches, we emptied our rooms of bags and wine-stuffed boxes. Now I mentioned earlier that Dasad had rented a Chrysler Sebring for our travels, a nice unimposing number with four doors, three passengers, and no retractable hood. The little gray wisp of a car [...]
West Coastin’: I left my heart . . . where?
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, anime, tagged anime, bay, cities, cupcakes, food, hibachi, humor, J-pop sumit, Japan, Japantown, kawaii festival, manga, otaku, San Francisco, superlatives, travel on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After visiting Fisherman’s Wharf for some authentic Boudin sourdough, we made our way along the water to Gheribelli Square for a tour of their modest chocolate shop. Dasad poked his head into a gourmet cupcake place, buying three small cakes for about twelve bucks. Frankly I doubted the value of a four dollar dessert, which [...]
West Coastin’: Feeding the Animals
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, tagged animals, burritos, ComiCon, comics, dung beetles, elephants, enchiladas, food, giraffes, humor, mexican food, old west, rats, rhinos, San Diego, San Diego zoo, travel, zoo on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Our second port of call was San Diego. Having heard of its charm, beauty, and the annual comic convention – which we missed this year but desperately hope to attend next summer if I can beguile . . . er, convince Dasad – we decided to scout out the city. We stopped first at the [...]
West Coastin’: From L.A. with Love
Posted in Dasad Adventures, Wanderings, tagged Anaheim, California, Chinese Theater, Disney, Disneyland, food, fossils, Hollywood, humor, L.A., La Brea, La Brea Tar Pits, life, Los Angeles, road trip, shot glasses, sushi, tar, tar pits, travel, Walk of Fame, weather, west coast on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So having arrived in California, our first task was to get lost. For some reason the roads leading into Disney and thus the hotel had been blocked by the Anaheim police department. We circled the block several times, analyzing the various routes, double-checking our GPS, wondering if our room had somehow exploded and left us [...]
The Fool’s Guide to Wine-Tasting
Posted in Stumbling Sober, tagged appetizers, chocolate, chocolate fountains, drinking, drunks, family, food, fools, French, humor, language, life, oddity, parties, party, raffels, wine, wine tasting, writing on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The first skill of any successful wine connoisseur necessitates the ability to speak the lingo or at least French. I reason that people are more likely to tell you what you’re suppose to taste if can correctly pronounce the label. This in turn allows the fake connoisseur to easily impress his or [...]
Good Service Nowadays
Posted in Wanderings, Whiskey Tales, tagged comics, depression, dispair, fast food, food, golf, insanity, jobs, life, movies, Panera, Wendys, working on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Panera Bread near the boys’ school is located in an old outlet center under construction. Golden bulldozers and backhoes decorate the parking lot, former Laundromats and Dollar Stores collapse into dust while steel skeletons of new stores emerge from their ashes, and hardhatted construction workers cut thick patchwork pieces from the asphalt like [...]
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