Stimulating that Economy

San Francisco to Monterey-
After a great night’s sleep in a bed for the first time in almost a week, we ventured out in the town in search of a good breakfast spot. We consulted Yelp for a good breakfast spot, and Brenda’s French Soul Food was hands down had the best reviews, and we headed down their to judge for ourselves. If you are ever craving any southern cooking in San Francisco…go there. The food was delicious, and just what we needed to start our morning off. After checking out of the hotel, we headed to the mecca of hippies, Haight Asbury to wander around some more shops and galleries. Nikki ended up finding some cool vintage bathing suits at La Rosa, and Mike and I ended up getting some original artwork by Jay Howell at the RVCA space. I am trying to start a mini art gallery in our place and will hopefully transfer it into my dental office in the distant future. We ended up heading over to golden gate park to meet up with one of my roommates from college Adam Carlson who is doing his residency at UCSF, and we all chatted over some crepes before he had to get back to work. It was good seeing him; I haven’t seen him in almost 4 years even though he was only in Charlottesville at UVA while I was in Richmond. We headed out of the city, all making promises to come back, since the 24 hours there wasn’t enough to even cover a fraction of all the city had to offer. The views driving down the coast to Monterey were again beautiful with the sun peeking out through the fog every once in a while. We stopped by Half moon bay and Mavericks imagining what the waves must be like here in the winter towering 40-60 feet high. We passed Santa Cruz, Seaside, and finally ended up in Monterey. Monterey has the same feel as Santa Barbara with a long stretch of shops and eateries like State Street. We didn’t have enough time to go to the aquarium, but we’ll have to do that on another visit. We settled into the hotel, and ordered some Chinese food, and called it a day after Nikki and Brionna had a very competitive pillow/jousting fight. I think Brionna put up a good fight, but she was no match for the MMA trainee…I’m glad those classes are going to some use.


Day 8 stats
121 miles driven
24 head shops
5 photos taken because of
2 sleepy girls