A Mid-Summer in July

Pruneridge Golf Club
400 N Saratoga Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95050





Yard House
300 Santana Row #101, San Jose, CA 95128


Happy hour with a mini creme brulee. Vanilla bean custard and chocolate topped with caramelized bananas.

Yam & Reyes Residency, CA


Hello Charlie.

Renegade Craft Fair
Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA



Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory
56 Ross Alley, San Francisco, CA 94108

The aroma of freshly made fortune cookies drew me in to this intimate factory. This factory has been supplying fortune cookies to Chinatown and around the world since 1962.




Bhudsabourg Residency, CA


Time to retire the Smirnoff Ice.

Blackbird Bar
2124 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114



Dave & Buster's Restaurant, Bar and Arcade for Family Fun
940 Great Mall Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035



Costco
San Jose, CA


Approved for the Dolphin Experience.


A desk for ants.

Montalvo Arts Center
Park & hiking trails, Saratoga, CA 95071






Cin-Cin Wine Bar, Lounge & Kitchen
368 Village Lane, Los Gatos, CA

From the menu to our table. Wild mushroom empanadas with manchego cheese and truffle oil. Albonidgas with garlic-cumin lamb and pork meatballs, chickpeas, rapini, yogurt, harissa and mint puree. Cin-Cin deluxe diner sliders with premium natural, grass-fed beef on silver dollar rolls, grilled onions, chow-chow, aged cheddar fondue and chipotle aioli. Truffled french fries with grana padano.

From the bar. Two passionfruit caipirinha. Leblon Cachaca, fresh muddled limes, passion fruit puree and organic sugar syrup.


A photo of the birthday girl taking photos.

Morro Strand State Beach Pt 3

Day three. Breakdown campsite.

It was a long night. All this talk about squirrels breaking and entering tents settled into my subconscious. I woke up in the middle of the night sensing something, perhaps a furry critter, was scurrying towards my face. Needless to say, I buried myself in my sleeping bag. But not before I created a fortress of duffel bags, jackets and beach blankets around me.


I see you, ground squirrel. You stole my paper towel.


Breakfast and beer.


Banana hammock © 2011.

California Mid-State Fair, Paso Robles. Mountains of Fun! http://www.midstatefair.com/

Lathered in sunscreen and ready to eat all things fried.


Unknowingly, the most racially awkward place on earth.


From Abercrombie t-shirts to state fairs, our ancestry does
not derive from a long line of laundromats.


Ruthie went corporate.


Nothing short of amazement stems from this vendor.


Dedicated to Lucas and Stacy.


This would induce seizures.


Veggie chips in its raw, dehydrated form.


Possibly the greatest invention in the whole barn.


Nonsensical caging.


Yes I can in 2012.


The Darnest Thing spokesperson in person.


Vince Offer couldn't be here today to dazzle us with the Sham Wow.


Wolf pack attire. Available in alpha male.


One move short from unlimited bread and salad at Sizzler's.


It's physically impossible. All for a rubber bracelet.


Matching Paso Robles tattoos slash re-entry stamps.

Morro Strand State Beach Pt 2

Day two. All-terrain vehicles.


Good morning, Morro Strand State Beach.


"Alan!"


This is how we rough it. Chargers and four bar signals.

B.J.'s ATV Rentals. 197 W Grand Ave, Grover Beach, CA.

Beach cruise.


Putting the ATV in gangster.


Honda 250EX.


Yamaha Grizzly 125.




















Ride or die in Grover Beach.

Splash Cafe. 197 Pomeroy Ave, Pismo Beach, CA.

Serving size: two.


Parrot + pun. This has Ari written all over it.


Pretty quiet on the drive back.


Sunset behind our campsite.


Original Banana Boat © 2007.


Happy beach campers.


Bacon wrapped asparagus.


Bella mushrooms.


Grill master.


Power hour.