Guest guest Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 thought i'd bore ya'll with my travels over the weekend wait...don't leave yet! there's cookies afterwards... soooo we were gonna go down to LA for a show..but..the venue had too many issues, so we nixed that idea... so...we just sorta winged it we were suppose to leave thursday nite, but due to circumstances beyond my control, we were a tad late so...our lil trip started off in SF...beers at toronado, and food from love and haight....vegan *chicken* sandwich on sourdough...yum friday...we headed down the coast...it was raining, but not horribly.. hiked around the redwoods at big basin state park...very quiet...except fer the scolding of steller jay's...and we got followed by very fat squirrels....i knew i was nuts from there down t o boulder creek and the bouldercreek brewing company... the owner brian happily plied us with beer after beer after beer...their imperial stout was dang yummy... sun played hide and seek as we headed down to santa cruz.... lunch at the saturn cafe..... could have strangled an elephant with the amount of food they brought we had vegan nacho's(very tasty), rebecca had an onion burger, and i had the vegan rib sandwich thingee...both came with fries, (whoops, sorry, chips), and salad.... rebecca liked her vegan burger more then i liked my thing..which was a tad over done.. but..ah well and of course more beer (oatmeal stout for me, fat tire amber for her) then..in quick succession sea bright brewing...for a few more beers then coastline brewing...which..in all honesty...sucked food menu was over priced, and didn't see anything vegan, except for salads, oh boi...and the beer was boring... we tried to go to another bar (gee...do you see a trend?)..called the red room, but, it was closed..and after we heard sooo many good things about it....boohoo from santa cruz, we headed down the coast....watching the hillsides bloom...rain sputtered out and ended we hit marina outside of monterey..for..yet another brewpub... english ales brewing... sorta scary place... housed in the sorta building you'd find a strip mall auto -parts store or the like in these parts..it was a plastic faux version of an english pub...the tables and chiars were stuff you'd buy at wal-mart er home depot for your back deck...plastic formica counters, etc strange vibe rebecca said she kept waiting for the crazy person t o come running out of the back room with a knife screaming... beer was only ok no food finally..back down the coast.... hit san luis obispo after dark...medium college town... hadn't been to the brewery there (SLO brewing) in over 10 yrs, and they had changed owners/names...couldn't remember how to find the dang thing! so...the nite consisted of fruit we got at a local natural food store, and beer from boulder creek saturday...on the road before 8am back down the coast... down thru solvang(danish town) and thru the santa barbara mountains stopped in santa barbara..went thru their touristy downtown ...stopped at santa barbara brewing..ok beer...nut brown was palatable...nuthing food wise..only had one vegetarian thing on menu(garden burger) so..off further south.. stopped in the beach community of carpenteria....island brewing...nice views of the pacific..some surprisingly good diverse beers..only a tasting room...sooo..no food still and i'd misplaced my listing of santa barbara vegan places(found em 30 minutes after we left) we decided to pass up any more brewpubs on the journey south..and went straight to LA gawd i hate LA anyways since we hadn't eaten...went to California Vegan in hollywood(two locations in la, sunset in hollywood, and one in santa monica) very good food sorta a cheap small diner look but good food at a resonable price... thai emphasis we had tofu tod(they called it golden tofu), vegan fried shrimp(battered mock shrimp with vegetables), california chow mein(looked more like chow fun to me, but..wotever) and...crap..wot did i order? umm...oh..some red curry dish....good food.... then, off to the belgian beer fest at lucky baldwin's in pasadena the rest of the day was spent here..i won't bore you with details... that nite...went to paru's..indian food, back in hollywood good place...REALLY good food, very vegan friendly..heck, the waiter almost tried to crawl in my pants it seems but... never had to be buzzed into a restaurant before strange but...very good food...A+++ wanted to go to some shows er something...but..for a big city, it was lacking in a lot of stuff... the only show was the one we decided against....(for good reasons it turns out) sunday morn arrived....we wake up in studio city... on the local news, find out how the show had devolved into violence and riot...(nazi skins, punx, and cops...bad combination) headed off to santa monica....walked around..went on the pier...lalllala lunch at Real Food Daily..organic vegan...had some sorta rice rolls, rebecca had a vegan tofu wrap, i had veggie stir fry good food, tho service left a bit to be desired...slow and unresponsive... good food tho needed t o head back, so...back north stopped in Ventura...anacapa brewing....in their touristy beach downtown.... really nice/friendly waitstaff..gleefully pointed out wot could be made vegan on menu...good beer.... (we had bruschetta and salad)...(salad was all organic as well) then...back up the 101 freeway to the tiny town of Nipomo, and the santa maria brewing tiny lil brewery off a frontage road another strange locale....small crowd inside the lil place..maybe dozen ppl a blue grass band was playing... place was decorated in eclectic military/*outdoorsman*(read hunter/fisher) bar style.... everyone looked at us when we walked in... owner was nice tho...talked beer with him fer awhile...beers there were organic, how he brewed, etc.. weird place tho... then we took some back roads, nearly got ourselves killed, and scurried over to the boring I-5 and hurried north. as soon as we crossed the hills into livermore, it started to pour(it had been sunny in la)...got home after 9pm..and had a late dinner of tofu burgers, grilled veggies, and some beer we brought back from our trip... and that was about it cheers fraggle " NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. 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Guest guest Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Wow, fraggle may be the new poster for MADD. serene (for those who don't know, MADD is " Mothers Against Drunk Driving " ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 well...no 1. takes more then a couple beers per venue to get us drunk 2. i didn't drive >serene <serene >Mar 7, 2006 3:26 PM > >Re: my weekend...LA is poo > >Wow, fraggle may be the new poster for MADD. > >serene (for those who don't know, MADD is " Mothers Against Drunk Driving " ) > > >To send an email to - > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 On Tue, March 7, 2006 1:44 pm, fraggle said: > well...no Cool. Glad my concerns for your safety were unfounded. Sure sounded like " Drink; drive to a new place; drink some more; drive to a new place " from your description. > 1. takes more then a couple beers per venue to get us drunk Heh. Not too drunk to legally drive. > 2. i didn't drive Who did? I guess I assumed you guys were on motorcycles or something. serene -- The Reluctant Vegan: http://www.reluctantvegan.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Hi Fraggle All in all, rain and all, sounds like fun! Now where are the cookies?! Nikki , fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote: > > thought i'd bore ya'll with my travels over the weekend > wait...don't leave yet! there's cookies afterwards... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 i left em on the table...you didn't get one? vegan chocolate chip, with walnuts >earthstrm <earthstorm >Mar 8, 2006 7:56 AM > > Re: my weekend...LA is poo > >Hi Fraggle > >All in all, rain and all, sounds like fun! > >Now where are the cookies?! > >Nikki > > >--- " NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 Geez Fraggle, You did more in a weekend than I`ve done in the last year! and all the ales on the first day sounded yummy. Glad you didnt go to the show, you must have known what kind of following those bands have, mostly skinheads looking for trouble ( I know , I sound like a very old man!).Glad you had fun. Now its time to save up for the next one! Hey things are looking up, the wife just bought me 4 bottles of XXXB! The Valley Vegan.............fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote: thought i'd bore ya'll with my travels over the weekendwait...don't leave yet! there's cookies afterwards...soooowe were gonna go down to LA for a show..but..the venue had too many issues, so we nixed that idea...so...we just sorta winged itwe were suppose to leave thursday nite, but due to circumstances beyond my control, we were a tad lateso...our lil trip started off in SF...beers at toronado, and food from love and haight....vegan *chicken* sandwich on sourdough...yumfriday...we headed down the coast...it was raining, but not horribly..hiked around the redwoods at big basin state park...very quiet...except fer the scolding of steller jay's...and we got followed by very fat squirrels....i knew i was nutsfrom there down t o boulder creek and the bouldercreek brewing company...the owner brian happily plied us with beer after beer after beer...their imperial stout was dang yummy...sun played hide and seek as we headed down to santa cruz....lunch at the saturn cafe.....could have strangled an elephant with the amount of food they broughtwe had vegan nacho's(very tasty), rebecca had an onion burger, and i had the vegan rib sandwich thingee...both came with fries, (whoops, sorry, chips), and salad....rebecca liked her vegan burger more then i liked my thing..which was a tad over done..but..ah welland of course more beer(oatmeal stout for me, fat tire amber for her)then..in quick successionsea bright brewing...for a few more beersthen coastline brewing...which..in all honesty...suckedfood menu was over priced, and didn't see anything vegan, except for salads, oh boi...and the beer was boring...we tried to go to another bar (gee...do you see a trend?)..called the red room, but, it was closed..and after we heard sooo many good things about it....boohoofrom santa cruz, we headed down the coast....watching the hillsides bloom...rain sputtered out and endedwe hit marina outside of monterey..for..yet another brewpub...english ales brewing...sorta scary place...housed in the sorta building you'd find a strip mall auto -parts store or the like in these parts..it was a plastic faux version of an english pub...the tables and chiars were stuff you'd buy at wal-mart er home depot for your back deck...plastic formica counters, etcstrange viberebecca said she kept waiting for the crazy person t o come running out of the back room with a knife screaming...beer was only okno foodfinally..back down the coast....hit san luis obispo after dark...medium college town...hadn't been to the brewery there (SLO brewing) in over 10 yrs, and they had changed owners/names...couldn't remember how to find the dang thing! so...the nite consisted of fruit we got at a local natural food store, and beer from boulder creeksaturday...on the road before 8amback down the coast...down thru solvang(danish town) and thru the santa barbara mountainsstopped in santa barbara..went thru their touristy downtown ...stopped at santa barbara brewing..ok beer...nut brown was palatable...nuthing food wise..only had one vegetarian thing on menu(garden burger)so..off further south..stopped in the beach community of carpenteria....island brewing...nice views of the pacific..some surprisingly good diverse beers..only a tasting room...sooo..no food stilland i'd misplaced my listing of santa barbara vegan places(found em 30 minutes after we left)we decided to pass up any more brewpubs on the journey south..and went straight to LAgawd i hate LAanywayssince we hadn't eaten...went to California Vegan in hollywood(two locations in la, sunset in hollywood, and one in santa monica)very good foodsorta a cheap small diner lookbut good food at a resonable price...thai emphasiswe had tofu tod(they called it golden tofu), vegan fried shrimp(battered mock shrimp with vegetables), california chow mein(looked more like chow fun to me, but..wotever) and...crap..wot did i order? umm...oh..some red curry dish....good food....then, off to the belgian beer fest at lucky baldwin's in pasadenathe rest of the day was spent here..i won't bore you with details...that nite...went to paru's..indian food, back in hollywoodgood place...REALLY good food, very vegan friendly..heck, the waiter almost tried to crawl in my pants it seemsbut...never had to be buzzed into a restaurant beforestrangebut...very good food...A+++wanted to go to some shows er something...but..for a big city, it was lacking in a lot of stuff...the only show was the one we decided against....(for good reasons it turns out)sunday morn arrived....we wake up in studio city...on the local news, find out how the show had devolved into violence and riot...(nazi skins, punx, and cops...bad combination)headed off to santa monica....walked around..went on the pier...lalllalalunch at Real Food Daily..organic vegan...had some sorta rice rolls, rebecca had a vegan tofu wrap, i had veggie stir frygood food, tho service left a bit to be desired...slow and unresponsive...good food thoneeded t o head back, so...back northstopped in Ventura...anacapa brewing....in their touristy beach downtown....really nice/friendly waitstaff..gleefully pointed out wot could be made vegan on menu...good beer....(we had bruschetta and salad)...(salad was all organic as well)then...back up the 101 freewayto the tiny town of Nipomo, and the santa maria brewingtiny lil brewery off a frontage roadanother strange locale....small crowd inside the lil place..maybe dozen ppla blue grass band was playing...place was decorated in eclectic military/*outdoorsman*(read hunter/fisher) bar style....everyone looked at us when we walked in...owner was nice tho...talked beer with him fer awhile...beers there were organic, how he brewed, etc..weird place tho...then we took some back roads, nearly got ourselves killed, and scurried over to the boring I-5 and hurried north.as soon as we crossed the hills into livermore, it started to pour(it had been sunny in la)...got home after 9pm..and had a late dinner of tofu burgers, grilled veggies, and some beer we brought back from our trip...and that was about it:)cheersfraggle"NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. 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Guest guest Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 You are such a tease!!! Nikki *pouting* , fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote: > > i left em on the table...you didn't get one? > vegan chocolate chip, with walnuts > > > >earthstrm <earthstorm > >Mar 8, 2006 7:56 AM > > > > Re: my weekend...LA is poo > > > >Hi Fraggle > > > >All in all, rain and all, sounds like fun! > > > >Now where are the cookies?! > > > >Nikki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2006 Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 wait til the end of the month! heh as for the show..typical LA crap prolly wouldn't have been like that..maybe..up here *shrug* peter hurd Mar 8, 2006 2:06 PM Re: my weekend...LA is poo Geez Fraggle, You did more in a weekend than I`ve done in the last year! and all the ales on the first day sounded yummy. "NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of the current President." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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