Traveling the World, Eating the Food, and Recreating It At Home
The time has come to figure out how to fit three months of sprawl into the back of Sassy the Disco and drive home to the East Coast.
So, let’s talk about packing cubes…These are hands down the best way to organize for a long trip, seconded only by compression bags. You can sort clothing by type, by day, by person (if you’re packing for more than one). I typically pack by type, let me show you what I mean.
I’ve been here in San Diego for three months and I feel like I’ve Happy Hour’ed my way through town. On my last weekend, I decided to eat a real meal. I chose Donovan’s Steak and Chophouse in La Jolla. Donovan’s is one of those dimly lit, fine dining establishments with a lot of staff and prices that clearly reflect all those people milling around (as well as the quality of the food). Join me for dinner!
It’s Friday, I’m still living in a hotel, and a herd of toddler aged elephants has apparently moved into the room above me. I could have poured myself a simple glass of wine, but I decided to go the “I don’t have to get up early and go to work tomorrow” route and shake myself up a martini.
It’s no surprise that I love to travel, at some points in my life spending up to 10 months a year on the road between work and personal travel. After awhile, you develop a packing routine, an airport routine, a hotel routine, and all of these are aided with the help of a couple things that you always have on you. Here are mine-
The area’s best dim sum restaurant isn’t in Chinatown, it isn’t a gigantic palace near Eden Center, it’s actually tucked away on a side street in Annandale. A&J Restaurant is a small, cash only (yes, seriously, bring cash!) Taiwanese-style restaurant.