Summertime, and the livin' is easy....
Saturday dawned hot...and continued with the hotness and the sweatiness all day! Though we live on the peninsula, we decided it would be a good idea to rack up Stella and Beretta and head to our old stomping grounds in Berkeley....
Madness can ensue when you spend six hours meandering the back streets and well known streets alike...the highlights, were as such...,
- an anitiwar protest happening on one street, and on the adjacent street, the Vietnam vets motorcycle club along with the Nomads and who knows who else, all hanging out by their motorcycles drinking coffee and chatting. Police were there en force
- We were the victims of a drive-by - three doods in a hoopty Cadillac drove by whilst we cruised down University...and the passenger leaned out and squirted us with a squirt gun...
- I lowballed a vendor guy for a Nishiki frame and he got all pissed, but in hindsight, it was a good thing I did because I didn't buy the frame and so don't have a crappy, rusty frame to have to build up...
- We got bitched at by some lady "SIDEWALK!!! side-WALK!! WALK!!!! NOT BIKE!!!"
- While waiting to cross the street, a random dood took our picture. And then tried to act nonchalant, like he hadn't.
We had some rad food at Naan 'N Curry, as per my usual, I had the Chicken Vindaloo. We hopped over to Raleigh's for some pints, where I noticed there were Gnomes watching us...an auspicious sign....
We headed over to FTW to speak to Jason right-quick, next Sunday is still go...sleevage madness will be had...meandering through the backwoods I saw this gem, which is like an awesome houseboat, but on land....
We headed back down and got some delicious frozen lemonade, a satisfying end to a lovely summer day....
