YOU ABSOLUTE HOBAG
Posted: July 30th, 2025 | Tags: Uncategorized | No Comments »
in no particular order, the best of our California trip, July 2025, which was 100% perfect fantastic:
- the unknowable fathomless ocean
- fig leaf latte at quail and condor (and pictured croissant was a tomato chocolate croissant?! i wasn’t that into it but i’m all about the croissant exploration)
- gray skies
- remembering to use “best bakery in ______” to guide exploration
- chez panisse dinner extra awesome and charming, tomatoes and champagne and peaches, plus associated memories of past meals in other lives
- beautiful peaches
- beautiful strawberries
- beautiful tomatoes
- emily, a magical person giving magic to so so many
- best friends
- eating pancakes with best friends
- finally dancing to “levitating”
- manicure!!!!
- charming Berkeley
- sea ranch lodge — sitting in the window seat and watching the water — so beautiful
- the tile and low light in the sea ranch lodge bathroom
- skipping rocks at the Gualala River
- seeing alex and hazel after so so many years
- mary sue and bob’s sweet lil three-legged dog, pancho
- ross saying he had “the best avocado toast ever” at farley’s in the oakland airport — could it possibly be true?
- detouring to valley, emma’s restaurant in Sonoma, just on a wild proud-person whim, ross getting a bagel plate, me getting flowers and a pastry, and emma’s hilarious response to us coming to valley but not letting her know (“YOU ABSOLUTE HOBAG”) — perfection
- not throwing up on the plane!!!!
