: It is a law of nature that it NEVER RAINS in Central California in July. N E V E R ! But then, Central California is on a different world then where everybody else lives. (Which explains Bakersfield)

Nothing explains Bakersfield.. Or Fresno for that matter...

What do you mean you will not be home when my awesome Spear-Sister comes to your hold? She's going to be right in your backyard!! I also used you as an excuse to not go to the Bay Area because it's your territory and now you're not even going to be there!!

Yes! Listen to everyone who says go to Santa Cruz!! Like I was telling our Empress , SF is all you guys, don't like going to that city, I have plenty of homeless crackheads in my own city, don't need to drive 2 hours to deal with another cities. I will suggest Japan Town for you but back to my agreement with the Empress. I will do Santa Cruz any day!! The downtown is gorgeous with shops are adorable and I always love going Hidden Peak Teahouse. You could do the Boardwalk and have a Lost Boys experience. The Empress and I also agreed no Mystery Spot, only because once was good enough for me and she didn't want to do it by herself...

I have no idea, honestly. The leadership seems to have changed up a bit and I have no idea what's going on. I meant to just mute the pings but wound up leaving the groups instead but I didn't even notice until I couldn't access my past posts lol

The multiple auction pings were annoying me, and the few times I did check in they (auctions) were a mess of people yelling at each other and bickering over the rules; that which seemed to be made up as they went along. Kind of a headache I'd rather not be a part of anyway.

I'm making a list of all of the suggestions and the list of places we have already is only temporary, I'm sure some will be changed after we get there. That's what happened when we did our Southwest Roadtrip and we were in Frieda's backyard at the time :)

CHECK YOUR PINGS WS is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and it involves BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is so going to mUrder this ws!

Sister, Santa Cruz is a must go to. LOL If you don't total strangers will come up to you and call poor Emma mean names because you didn't go to Santa Cruz when you had the opportunity, besides its only an hour from the City (only 3 hours from me). Don't do it for me...or even our , do it for Emma! Like most metropolises San Francisco has an amazing public transportation system, but the best way to familiarize yourself with it is to walk

Of course I forgive you, Cousin Freddie! What kind of cat would I be if I held a grudge (well, a normal cat does just as a matter of course). I mean its not like you called me President Trump (Holy Cheeseburgers, Batman, talk about an oxymoron!) or anything unspeakable like that. I love that show! I still want to try that deli in LA they featured, the one that does the braised lamb French dip. Might be less expensive to make it at home though

You goof! LOL I'm on the Central Coast, so you're probably closer to the Bay Area than I am! I'll take The City though and Santa Cruz and being the generous creature that I am, you can have Gilroy but as your overlord, there may be a garlic tax and incidentally, I'm going to import every crazy or crackhead from here to Santa Barbara to you...you'll cover the Uber bill, right?

Oh my goodness, yes! The 22 auction pings were driving me nuts so were the group pings because someone stubbed their ickle toe. Dude...really? You had to ping both groups twice because your cat meowed?

no rain here.

The only thing I can think you cant get to is the private boards. Just like if someone isnt part of the LRVT ping group they can't get to our private area...which I must say we never use for much of anything. I was going to set up a game or something there once but I dont think there is enough to participate. AND it would mean me doing work and stuffs.

: Thank you for clarifying the ASPchatter issue. The only reason it came up was because I have received several pings to the private forum several times. I will not worry about it anymore in the future.

: Fresno certainly has it's issues, but it has a lot going for it too. It is the Gateway To Yosemite after all.

: after all this talk of food and restaurants and places to visit, I'm ready to go back to Monterey or Carmel or Sebastopol.

Eewwww!! I don't want Gilroy! Give it to . She'll like it, it's filled with Port-drinking, dirty Portuguese!! And crazy crackheads aren't going to leave your coastal cities, they have too nice of weather. (My mom drives Uber...)

!!! You're going to be here in the summer!!! Must find a Festa!!!! Gorge yourself on sopas!!!!!!!

I love the Underground Garden in Fresno! ...but talk about hot in the summer!

: The Underground Gardens was built just for the hot summer days! And its about 3.5 blocks from my Author's house. (Yet, he's only been there once though....LOL) Its been over 100 the last 4 days at least. Weldon and I are staying in Fresno so that we can swim in his cement pond and spear fish to stay cool. ( our creek dried up )

Festa? Haven't heard of it before lol.

Are you kidding? would never let me near Emma let alone hold her baby if I gave her Gilroy. TBH, I've only driven through it on the way to The City, but I do like Port. Oh good, maybe your Maman will give you a discountsnickers

I'd have loved to take Emma with us on this trip, but we're flying out there and then renting a car. I don't want to Emma to fly unless she can sit with us.

I love me some good Port too, but have to wait until next year to indulge cries

Yeah, I really can't afford it anymore at all, so I need to just stop. It'll be better for me to not bid on stuff haha.

I know, I'd be really reluctant to fly a four-legged family member anywhere, alone in a travel crate in the belly of the beast surrounded by luggage and fear...nope, can't do it! Maybe you can get her a social security card so she can be topside with you and Eric

I went to them about 2 years ago. I have a friend who has family in Fresno, so we made a day out of it cause he'd never been and he used to live in Fresno with his family. I'd go again but I'm not I don't go south very often.

You've been to fiestas. If you've had sopas at a Portuguese hall, that was at the Holy Ghost festa. (Festa just means party). Which I'm already looking up what the schedule is for this summer.

I've only driven through Gilroy on road trip adventures. My dad goes there for the festas but I've never gone with him. And you can have all of the Port, I'll take the Anise. And don't need a discount from my mum, she likes driving around drunk weirdos, probably wouldn't bother her to drive crazy crackheads...

Port? OMG I love port! Poppy Wheezle makes a wonderful port with wild grapes he finds nearby.

my eyes my eyes your appearing in the Nude.... whats wrong with you??

If only it was that easy! Emma would be my very furry kid haha :P

I haven't had sopas before, I've been to mexican fiestas since we lived in San Antonio and there is a festival called Fiesta that last for 2 weeks, but it's mainly people drinking and being drunk, a parade, and oyster bake (music acts perform there)

I need to not spend any money I dont need to. I want to buy a house. I have to go check my prequalification on a loan first. So need to do that within the week. The results of that will tell me if I can buy a house or if I am a renter for life.