sybarites

• Number of Times That We Have Gotten Lost So Far: 3

• Number of People That We’ve Seen That Officially Qualify as Extraordinarily Weird: >10 (Most notably, the “Greatest Wino in The World” according to his sandwich board sign and the Muscle Beach dude, all greased up and wearing nothing beyond a stars n’ stripes Speedo^TM at 8.00pm when everyone else is wearing jackets)

• Number of Oceans Viewed Within One Week: 2 (Atlantic & Pacific)

• Number of Time Zones We’ve Crossed In The Last Three Days: 5

• Number of In-N-Out* Cheeseburgers Experienced: 2

* I’ve been wanting to try an In-N-Out burger since reading about them in a random food blog about a year ago. The guy went on and on about how scrumptious they were, how perfect and cheesy exemplary of all that makes a burger great. He wrote probably >500 words about these burgers, and the accompanying fries and shake, so I had to put them on The List. Of course, I forgot all about them when we were in San Francisco last year but was reminded of them by a recent article about this California food chain in Food & Wine magazine. This article described how Thomas Keller liked them and if he likes them, I have to try them. It turns out that they make a very decent burger: fresh ground beef, made while you wait, home-made buns and fries, hand-torn lettuce, etc. Nothing to write home about (no pun intended) but I’m sure I’ll have pleasant memories when we’re in the middle of China with nary a burger joint on the horizon.

• Number of Toothbrushes Lost So Far: 1