The Holy Grail of the hamburger. The sacred home of the double double, animal style and spread. A family-owned burger joint founded in the Golden State which stayed true to its roots. No nationwide expansion or mass saturation of the market, a fast-food place with a reputation for quality and simplicity which refused to compromiseContinue reading “Crisscrossing California: In-N-Out”
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Crisscrossing California: Legoland California
Bits and pieces. Odds and ends. All different shapes and sizes. A scattered mish-mash of parts that couldn’t possibly fit together. Finding ways to click things into place, learning after every failed attempt and starting again. The joy of Lego was in the creativity. Fashioning a spaceship from the squares and oblongs or placing aContinue reading “Crisscrossing California: Legoland California”
Crisscrossing California: Straight Outta Compton DMV
It began as a short journey to make a routine driver’s license renewal and ended in a drive up. A naive Scotsman caught in the wrong place at the most inopportune time. The unwitting outsider lucky to emerge unhurt after straying haphazardly into the territory of unforgiving rival gangs. Caught in the crossfire of theContinue reading “Crisscrossing California: Straight Outta Compton DMV”
Crisscrossing California: Among the Ocean dwellers
A frenzied squadron of pelicans swooped down and danced across the surface of the water on their tiptoes. They congregated in a massed huddle, squabbling amongst each other for a prized piece of scran. From the captain’s tone of voice, it was easy to conclude that this was not an everyday sight. He said itContinue reading “Crisscrossing California: Among the Ocean dwellers”
Crisscrossing California: Halloween
For the more cynically inclined it’s hard to view Halloween outside the prism of commercialization. Costumes, candy, decorations, movies and music. Promotions and advertisements pushed off the scale until October 31. Trick or treating and pumpkin carving. A means of extracting cash from parents as kids seek a ready made costume before filling up onContinue reading “Crisscrossing California: Halloween”
Stephen Kasiewicz 