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hipple complete.

cos, do you know where your staying for the baseball thingy?  and i'm still a solid 15/85 committed to coshole II, whenever it is..
Somewhere on the tracks or near Petco Thur - Sat. 

Probably LA rest of the trip.

Pretty sure we'll take Sunday off from baseball and go to Santa Anita.

Cosholedoo will be Mardi Gras in Galveston

 
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the rover said:
I agree.   Once you've had brunch at the Hotel Del and gone to the beach, you're done.   Catalina is fun for a weekend, but there isn't all that much to do for the effort/cost it takes to get there.
My mom grew up in Coronado and we used to go there when I was a kid. I like it better than that, but it is certainly sleepier than some other places in the San Diego.

 
The Carmel/Monterey area is often overlooked and underrated...especially if it is just you and the wife.
One of my good buddies got married at the Carmel Mission and had his reception at Spanish Bay. The scenery is gorgeous, but dang was it chilly. 

That last sentence applies to every place and every season of the year on the Central Coast, I think.

 
I just bought three different red blends at Costco for under $15 a bottle for Christmas Eve and Christmas Dinner. They were all good, ranging from really good to fantastic.

But of course I can't remember what they were at the moment. And Costco.com doesn't list the wines they have available, I don't think.

I hope you find this post super helpful.

 
Traffic awful near RayJay starting at noon today.  Stupid game messing with my commute.  Keep dropping those tourista dollars and then go home.

 
Reg Lllama of Brixton said:
I'd skip Catalina.  It is basically an island that looks like a lot of other places On the California coast.  I mean it's a decent place for a weekend getaway but I wouldn't recommend it to an out-of-stater.

Santa Barbara >>>>> Catalina
Well sure, if you just go to Avalon.  But if you fly into the Airport in the Sky for the quinquennial Bison culling good times can be had. Only airport I've ever seen with a Santa Maria grill on their patio waiting area.  Came in handy that trip.

 
My mom grew up in Coronado and we used to go there when I was a kid. I like it better than that, but it is certainly sleepier than some other places in the San Diego.
It's great if you surf and there's a south swell.   there are a couple of good bars, but it's kind of a local scene and you have to make sure you're not accidentally someplace you're not supposed to be.  the SEALS lay claim to a couple bars there and tend to be #######s when they're drunk.  I was banned for life from some mexican bar there, but I'm pretty sure they've forgotten all about that piano by now.

 
It's great if you surf and there's a south swell.   there are a couple of good bars, but it's kind of a local scene and you have to make sure you're not accidentally someplace you're not supposed to be.  the SEALS lay claim to a couple bars there and tend to be #######s when they're drunk.  I was banned for life from some mexican bar there, but I'm pretty sure they've forgotten all about that piano by now.
Was it the Mexican Village? 

That was the Navy bar when I was a kid. Also where my mom used to bat her eyelashes at Naval aviators in the late-1940s.

 
RedmondLonghorn said:
Last week a kid committed suicide at the high school that my son and step-son go to. He hung himself on school grounds (I think it was near the football field) during school hours. The kid was described only as "a former student".

Later in the week I found out the deceased was a kid who was in my step-son's Boy Scout Troop. He had gotten his Eagle a year ago right now. He had a troubled family life and he wasn't a great student, but he was a very personable kid and he was dedicated and organized enough to become an Eagle scout. Our family knew him very well. 

My wife and I are still so shaken up by this. It is truly heart-breaking that he felt so hopeless and unhappy that taking his life somehow made sense to him. He wasn't even 19 yet.

:(  
ugh- that's just terrible, red.

were your kids friends/friendly with him? how are they taking it?

 
ugh- that's just terrible, red.

were your kids friends/friendly with him? how are they taking it?
My older step-son was. But he seems to be taking it better than the wife and I are. She and I both really liked him. She does a lot of volunteering with the scout troop and knew the kid better than her son or I did.

 
Was it the Mexican Village? 

That was the Navy bar when I was a kid. Also where my mom used to bat her eyelashes at Naval aviators in the late-1940s.
Yes.  That was it.  I broke their piano (well, the top part that you're not supposed to dance on, anyway).   I'm also banned from the other historic hotel on the island because during the campaign kick-off party when my buddy was running for Mayor, we crammed half a dozen drunk girls into their antique elevator and broke it.

 
Yes.  That was it.  I broke their piano (well, the top part that you're not supposed to dance on, anyway).  
Figured that was it.

BTW, my brother and his wife just moved to Gig Harbor, or actually to the immediate vicinity of GH, so Wife 2.0 and I will be looking you up at some point in the not too distant future.

Actually, it wouldn't be shocking if you have come across my brother in your legal dealings, as he is fairly senior on the claims side at the Marsh office in Seattle.

 
Thanks for the input folks.

Mr. Longhorn sorry for what you're experiencing.  Sucks.
If you want to talk Washington, Vancouver, Victoria locales, let me know (I realize as an Oregonian you know the general stuff, but we could talk specifics).  We've really only commented on CA, I guess due to weather in the next few months.  I think there are some good options that have been posted, but I still think there are great options up this way.  I don't care about being in warm weather so much, though.

 
If you want to talk Washington, Vancouver, Victoria locales, let me know (I realize as an Oregonian you know the general stuff, but we could talk specifics).  We've really only commented on CA, I guess due to weather in the next few months.  I think there are some good options that have been posted, but I still think there are great options up this way.  I don't care about being in warm weather so much, though.
One of our favorite trips ever was taking the ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria.  Did tea at The Empress (actually tea at different place every day), Butchart Gardens, walked the marina, walked a couple of museums.  Great trip.  But as we've gotten older - and considering we've been below freezing and had feet of snow on the ground here for a few weeks - I think we both want some place warm. However, for a future warm weather Victoria return trip....watcha got? :)

 
It's likely; I drank a lot of Kim Crawford in the mid-aughts.
It was a little better then, but I still love the astringent grapefruit slap.

Have you had Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc?

California Sauv Blanc grapes with a tiny, tiny touch of oak. Pretty damn good quaffer under $10 now (used to be 15)

 
One of our favorite trips ever was taking the ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria.  Did tea at The Empress (actually tea at different place every day), Butchart Gardens, walked the marina, walked a couple of museums.  Great trip.  But as we've gotten older - and considering we've been below freezing and had feet of snow on the ground here for a few weeks - I think we both want some place warm. However, for a future warm weather Victoria return trip....watcha got? :)
loved my one and only trip to Victoria in September and will give you lots of recommendations when you're trip planning.  For now, I leave you with these two words as my must-see:  "ferry dance."  For some reason, it made me laugh so hard that I not only cried while watching it, but I cried from laughter any time someone mentioned it over the course of the next month (which my family were nice enough to do often just to see me lose my #### again every time).

 
One of our favorite trips ever was taking the ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria.  Did tea at The Empress (actually tea at different place every day), Butchart Gardens, walked the marina, walked a couple of museums.  Great trip.  But as we've gotten older - and considering we've been below freezing and had feet of snow on the ground here for a few weeks - I think we both want some place warm. However, for a future warm weather Victoria return trip....watcha got? :)
Victoria was one of our favorite long weekends ever. Gambling, Cuban cigars, bucolic all over the place.

It was also the most embarrassed my wife has ever been. You know how the rickshaw drivers swarm you when you offload the ferry? This cute little 95# girl pestered us into letting her take us to the hotel. Fifty feet later, we're trekking up the hill. She's strainning with ever muscle and fiber in her body. We're just barely moving, inching up the hill. All the other rickshaw drivers notice and start lining the curb, cheering her on. Soon the tourists join in and we're absolutely suffering from shame in the back as she makes the slowest trip ever up the hill. tl/dr don't take the rickshaw

 
It was a little better then, but I still love the astringent grapefruit slap.

Have you had Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc?

California Sauv Blanc grapes with a tiny, tiny touch of oak. Pretty damn good quaffer under $10 now (used to be 15)
I have had that and enjoy it.  It was one of the wines that seemed to be on every restaurant list in Memphis (along with the Caymus Conundrum).  Haven't had it for a while; good reminder to pick some of that up sometime.

By the way, I intended to send you a PM but since I'm typing at you here will just mention that I"m highly unlikely for any upcoming coshole.  Have some personal stuff going on.  You never know, though - might just show up without telling anyone again.

 
Victoria was one of our favorite long weekends ever. Gambling, Cuban cigars, bucolic all over the place.

It was also the most embarrassed my wife has ever been. You know how the rickshaw drivers swarm you when you offload the ferry? This cute little 95# girl pestered us into letting her take us to the hotel. Fifty feet later, we're trekking up the hill. She's strainning with ever muscle and fiber in her body. We're just barely moving, inching up the hill. All the other rickshaw drivers notice and start lining the curb, cheering her on. Soon the tourists join in and we're absolutely suffering from shame in the back as she makes the slowest trip ever up the hill. tl/dr don't take the rickshaw
:lmao: :lmao:

 
I have had that and enjoy it.  It was one of the wines that seemed to be on every restaurant list in Memphis (along with the Caymus Conundrum).  Haven't had it for a while; good reminder to pick some of that up sometime.

By the way, I intended to send you a PM but since I'm typing at you here will just mention that I"m highly unlikely for any upcoming coshole.  Have some personal stuff going on.  You never know, though - might just show up without telling anyone again.
its all good. 

 
K4>since you can afford a fancy $20 bottle, try the Vin du Lac Sauv Blanc.  In fact, go to Lake Chelan and go to their winery.   

 

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