4/2/07 - Lunch

Picked up Patty in Ojai and we surfed a double-over-ankle C Street. Then we went on a tour of downtown Ventura eateries for lunch and found a hole in the wall Taqueria Vallarta (unrelated to the Santa Cruz venues) on the main drag. Perfect.

The lovely Patty Williams, waiting for her tacos, knocking back a Modelo.

I dug into some nachos: chips, sour cream, cheese, beans, chicken, salsa and guacamole. After a beer, this dish said 'nap time.' Back at the Williams residence we dozed on the deck, drank tea and ate cookies.

With the light waning, we rode bikes through town and ate dinner at a roadhouse on the outskirts of Ojai. We both ordered buffalo burgers with fries. No photographic evidence exists of this conquest but I confess that the burgers were dynamite. How does one follow a day of this sort?

3/15/07 - Dinner

Ordered this work of art at Los Piños on my dinner break.

Despite knowing how messy your plate (and your face) gets, despite the soggy tortillas and the mush of sour cream and guacamole and salsa that's inevitably left over, you're still grinning like a drunk caballero when you dig into a heaping, swampy plate of nachos.


Pictured: tortilla chips, chicken, cheddar cheese, sour cream, jalapeños, refried beans and a mountain range of guacamole.