Saturday, November 27, 2010
DAY TRIP
Well, overnight.
I am off around noon today to go to Long Beach to visit our friend Randy and to put my foot on a beach.
It just has to be done every once in awhile. There is no beach here. Not even close.
We do have the Salton Sea but that is such a mess it doesn't count.
The other thing I will do there is to have dinner at the Café Piccolo which features great Italian food with the best spumoni ice cream I have ever found in any place.
It is not that stuff that comes in a box with wax paper on presliced triangles or blocks. It is a full scoop from a swirled big can of real ice cream.
Then, tomorrow, I will come home as early as I can.
The postcard shows a place on the beach called The Pike. It is not like that now. No rollercoaster. None of that.
They have revived some aspects of it but, mostly, the beach part of Long Beach is a long low flat expanse with a nice wide concrete walk and bike path that runs its length down the middle. There are no waves. The water is way far away from the beach part. They should call it "wide beach". Of course, that might not last too long as the waters rise.
The Queen Mary is there and they have a great aquarium. I have done all that.
This time it is just the water, some sand and the spumoni ice cream to say nothing of a longish visit.
