So about a month ago when I posted my frustrations with L.A. traffic, I had gone down to see my friend Alex.
On my way down, I had stopped in a French Bakery in Prunedale for lunch. The place was called Provence Bakery and the food is good. By the look of everything else around it's probably the best food you can get for quite a few miles and it just broke my heart to see a whole crowd in Burger King across the parking lot, and only 3 people in the Provence Bakery and I probably would have had to spend more at Burger King for crappy food. If you end up needing some food in Prunedale, CA this is definitely the place to stop.
The original plan was to hit Palomar mountain then, but it ended up not happening. Meanwhile, while I was down there, I had my first In-N-Out burger.
Proof!
Luckily, In-N-Out does not describe the burger's relationship with the person eating it. In the words of the immortal Walter Sobchak: "Those are good burgers, dude."
Here, by the way, is what Highway 1 looks like on a clear day.
I've been rolling around, biding my time...here are some other disorganized shots of my meanderings around California:
A friend of mine and I rode our bikes out to Alice's Restaurant. Now, it's not THE Alice's Restaurant, (that's in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and is now called "The Main Street Cafe") but it is certainly the place to go if you ask any biker around here.
The food was quite good, and they have a root beer from Devils' Canyon (a local brewery) that is just perfect.
We happened to be there when there were almost no other bikers out. I've since been back twice and each time there's at least 20 bikes in that lot.
All their specialty burgers are motorcycle themed (take a look at what goes on a Harley Burger):
I went for a ride with the "Four Corners Motorcycle Club" around some beautiful roads:
And I went out on a ride with SMR motorcycle club. Where we covered more of the great California scenery and stopped for lunch at the Whale City Bakery in Davenport. If you find yourself in the area, it is definitely a good spot for a meal, and they can bake the perfect chocolate chip cookie.
Tomorrow I head out for San Francisco to spend the weekend there for "Bay to Breakers". Supposedly it's a 12k run, but all the runners show up early and run it, while the rest of city shows up a little later and it becomes a massive crawling party across town. It's about as crazy as it gets and it's pretty much the reason I've stayed in California this long.
