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Tour De Fat came to Balboa Park Saturday. Windy conditions kept me out of the water so I
traveled southward and parked in the Golden Hill area.
I had never been through Golden Hill. It reminded me of James Street in Syracuse,
with dated old mansions, multi-unit nice buildings, with run-down older homes. I walked by the Turf Supper Club – funny, this place
was a discussion item Friday night with the counseling group.
Tour De Fat certainly took on a festive, carnival atmosphere.
A bike parade occurred earlier in the day,
with spectators becoming participants. Crazy
Costumes were everywhere.
There was the obligatory beer garden area being that the
event is sponsored by New Belgium Beer. But
outside the beer garden was a bike rodeo area.
This fenced-in area had crazy and outlandish bikes for anyone with a
helmet to try.
See the rest of the pics here. Crashes abound.
Back in the beer garden, I tried the IPA until I dropped
it. Hate when that happens. Now all they had was their Amber Red. This one I intentionally dropped (really I poured
it out).
One of the entertaining games as a life-size Jenga
game. Everyone heard it when it crashed.
Well, it didn’t start well. Quarterly downtime (work stuff) should have completed by 6am but went until 10am. Once completed, I packed Carbon (black Element, get it?) and traveled north. After a good hour+ surfing in San Onofre, I phoned Morrie and said I was dropping by. I caught up with Morrie and Cathy, dropped off a repaired surfboard for Corrie, and was on my way north.
I had a ticket for Largo’s Watkins Family Hour, and tentative plans to visit Jasmine.
After parking, jumping in line for the Largo seating (they do it right!) behind an actor that smelled w-a-y t-o-o bad I got my seat assignment. Time to kill, so I had dinner at the sushi bar across the street. The Little Room opened (Largo’s bar) so I had a Guinness draft and talked with Avery, who was at the same Watkins Family Hour in December 2011. Great talking to you, Avery.
My seat was D16 – Perfect. There really isn’t a bad seat in the venue (again, they do it right). Great show. Guests were Dan Wilson (SemiSonic) and Nikka Costa. I was hoping for Fiona Apple but no.
I checked messages after the concert and found 4 mgs from Jasmine. She left the earlier party near Largo and traveled home. I met her there and crashed for the night.
The next morning, we had breakfast at Joe’s in Venice. Damn good coffee (and biscuits!). Then we found 1-hour parking in Venice and checked the surf. After my whining, we jumped in the water. Great surf day except that I cut off someone (did not see him!). He was really cool about it. Thanks, Jasmine for listening to me whine before deciding to surf.
We followed up with some noshing before I traveled south. The conversation was great (what am I doing??? Who I doing it with???). I can always count on Jasmine for meaningful conversation.
Oh man, I have to have one of those biscuits now!
