{"id":25591,"date":"2023-02-24T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=25591"},"modified":"2023-02-27T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:47:13","slug":"life-island-times-detour-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-detour-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Detour, Day 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/012423-LIT1-e1674587513747.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"59\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May 2001<br \/>\nDetour Version 1.0<\/p>\n<p>Day 15<\/p>\n<p>To each, his own.<\/p>\n<p>Steve wanted another southern slice of the PCH, while I wanted to revisit some old haunts on the peninsula and the new to me Monterey Aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>The aquarium\u2019s 35 foot tall, swaying kelp beds were entrancing. The geriatric otters (&gt;14 years old) in residence were still hilariously entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>We took runny cheese, a French baguette, champagne, and red wine to a a not-so-sunny sunset for a darkening feasting as the fast-moving overcast was thick and quieting. Very peaceful. We tried to find a dry rock path to a large offshore rock outcropping to spy on the otters, but incoming tides thwarted us.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was at an old local\u2019s favorite Italian place in Pacific Grove. In addition to the super food was the special, funky verbal garnish thrown our way by our 70s Big Sur area born\/raised male waiter and the restaurant\u2019s transvestite owner upon their spying my Chippendale-looking motorcycling partner Steve and their learning that I was headed back to live in Key West once again. What a blast from the past, present and future.<\/p>\n<p>Day 15 miscellany and counts:<\/p>\n<p>Daily Windshield Bug Smash Bingo Game winners: none<\/p>\n<p>Query count as of the end of Day 15:<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019re you going? \u2013 16<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s that: (Steve\u2019s Valkyrie) \u2013 7<br \/>\nDamsels in distress? \u2013 7<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/022423-LIT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/022423-LIT1.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/022423-LIT1-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/022423-LIT1-290x281.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Observation #10 &amp; #11: all the cars on the peninsula were foreign and very clean. They all seemed to have been detailed recently. Dinner side salads on the peninsula started at ~$9. The salad industry appears to be doing quite well with the term \u201csalad days\u2019\u201d meaning in full morph mode.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2001 and 2023 From My Aisle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsoctra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 15 To each, his own. Steve wanted another southern slice of the PCH, while I wanted to revisit some old haunts on the peninsula and the new to me Monterey Aquarium. The aquarium\u2019s 35 foot tall, swaying kelp beds were entrancing. The geriatric otters (&gt;14 years old) in residence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25594,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions\/25594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}