California

Oh, snap. Chron’s coverage here. I’m proud to be Californian.

With origins in Mexico, a dash of Americanizations and a kitchen on wheels, taco trucks are the perfect metaphor for California. They represent cheap and quality street food that has spread from Calexico to Yreka and beyond. Anyone who loves an honest horchata, a good burrito and solid torta knows where to find these roving brigades of deliciousness. California Taco Trucks was started as a way for five Californians to explore this intersection and confluence of geography, culture, photography and,…

Starving Student: The cultural significance of taco trucks: It is not a secret that the highest-income earners in Chico are white people. So let’s go ahead and stop trying to pretend I’m being racist. Everyone is racist. And every journalist is biased. If you do not agree with the previous two statements, you probably understand the world much differently than I do, and will find this column at least partially offensive. Therefore, people who stick their nose up at taco…

Taco trucks are once again under threat, this time in Tulare County. This smells of the saga down in Salinas. The Fresno Bee: By Erik Lacayo / The Fresno Bee 12/08/07 22:21:02 TIPTON — Taco trucks across Tulare County could be driven out of business, some vendors fear, because of a proposed ordinance that would regulate where they can sell food. The Tulare County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote Tuesday on the new rules for mobile food vendors…

So on Wednesday, when I drove from Oakland to Santa Monica — a drive that I’ve made since I was a kid easily over 100 times — I decided to spice things up a little bit. I-5, as most people know, is California’s most boring section of highway, and it serves exactly one purpose: getting people from the north to the south and vice versa as fast as possible. However, some research on Chowhound turned up the presence of a…

On his blog, Daniel Hernandez notes that there have been a couple really neat proposals for a proper subway system for LA. The first one, designed by Numan Parada, would put a subway stop at 26th and Wilshire, about 2 blocks from my parents’ house. It would take two transfers to get there from LAX, which would be freakin’ sweet. The second one would put a stop at 23rd and Santa Monica Blvd., about 6-7 blocks from my parents’ house,…

We’re spending our last night camping outside Eureka, CA. We just had dinner at Hurricane Kate’s and are enjoying Arts Alive!, their summer outdoor festival. We’ll be home by tomorrow afternoon.

I’m on a road trip from now until June 5, headed to : – Eugene, OR – Sasquatch 2006 (George, WA) – Seattle, WA – Vancouver, BC – Waldport, OR – Eureka, CA We stopped in Yreka, CA en route to Eugene today and discovered that the Yreka Bakery is sadly no longer. Also, Mt. Shasta is really sweet. Tomorrow: A quick trip to Portland en route to Sasquatch.

So despite the fact that I’m a stockholder, I’ve never actually flown JetBlue. My grandmother pointed out that they’re currently selling $39 one-ways from OAK to Long Beach, and I immediately grabbed it. (Although in my haste, I had to make a change from a Friday eve flight to an early Sat morning flight due to a thing at work that I forgot about.) I’m leaving my craigslist ad up for now on the off chance that someone replies so…

Is anyone else going to LA for MLK weekend? I could have bought a Southwest ticket last night for $120, but stupidly waited until this morning and now they cost almost $200. I’ve put up an ad on craigslist. My other options are to suck it up and get the $180 ticket on United or Southwest — or try to brave the California Chinatown Bus scene (San Leandro BART to Santa Monica!) for $90 roundtrip on CABus.