Napa + The Freemont Diner + Che & Frida & May Day

I took my friend Michael up to Napa to look for an apartment at this senior housing facility, and I don't think it's for him. It's scary what happens to us when we get old. It was a lovely outdated small studio apartment. I was clean and newly painted. You could get a small bed and a small desk in there, and that would have been about it. I just think he would be lonely there, and it's all white folks. No diversity in this place, just old and older.

We hightailed it out of there, and instead of taking highway 80 back across the Carquinez Bridge and Hwy. 580 back to Oaktown we decided to go Hwy. 12 to 116 to Petaluma, and we stopped at the Freemont diner in Sonoma.

Stopping here was the best decision we made all day. If you haven't been to this diner next time you're in a the area, and you need you're fill of comfort food, stop there. I got the muffaletta sandwich and fries. This is the second time I've had fries in 5 months, and it was worth the wait. Michael got the chicken BBQ sandwich, and he ate it all. He's a picky bastard if there ever was one. I saw the oyster po boy sandwich, and the fried chicken looked like it was out of this world.

You can sit outside under the tent with your dog, and the house chickens. I brought Frida with us today. The ambience alone is worth the trip, good beers, great old food signs, and the service was right on point. A wonderful place. Go....As you pull out of the diner back onto Hwy. 12 the house across the street has a big piece sign on it.

Today is May 1st, also known as May Day, the International Workers holiday that was started right here in the US of A, and it is also Frida and Che's birthday. May day was a big holiday when we grew up. You would dance around the May pole, the whole nine yards. There were picnics if it was on a weekend. No one cares about the "working class" anymore unless there's a protest somewhere. You won't see or hear anything on any mainstream media today about the struggle of the working class in America.

It was a day where a lot of crap went wrong, but it turned out to be all right in the end. I've got to bring my camera with me more often.

That's it.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War

 Frida, Me, Che in Bodega Bay 2012

What I ate today;

Breakfast; coffee 1 sugar, walnut, raspberry scone

Lunch; 1 Anchor Steam beer, muffaletta sandwich, French fries

Dinner; kale salad, 2 tamales

Exercise; 3 miles walking