We’re down in Chula Vista, CA at the moment, in order to visit with a family friend who moved here a few years back from the East Coast.  On the drive down from Los Angeles this afternoon, we had a nice view of the Pacific Ocean for part of the way, which was nice.

We stopped in Carlsbad, CA for lunch in a little sandwich local sandwich shop that was called  “Board and Brew”. The sandwiches there were made while you waited, and having a non-fast-food chain (i.e. Subway) lunch while on the road was a welcome change. The “Brew” in the name predictably referred to beer (which we didn’t have), but the “Board” was not as obvious until we stepped inside; then it became clear that the “board” in question was of the skateboard/snowboard variety.  We raised the average age in the place by quite a bit while we were there, and also acquired a little bit of board lingo while we were there. You see, the menu listed two items listed under a section labelled “Groms”: there was a grilled cheese on sourdough, and a quesadilla. Both had melted cheese, but that seemed unlikely to be the reason they were grouped together.  Anyway, I ordered the grilled cheese, which was tasty.

When we got to the hotel in Chula Vista,  I did an Internet search for “Grom”, and here’s the definition I found on Definitions.net:

• grom (Noun)

  A young surfer, wakeskater, wakeboarder, snowboarder, skimboarder, skateboarder, or kiteboarder.

  They were having this contest for grommets. The waves were micro. Even the groms were disgusted.

Too funny. Just call me a kid at heart, I guess, since I ordered from the children’s menu.  

Anyway, although we didn’t have a chance to stop and take a photo of the view today, it seems appropriate to mark the fact that our Plan G Road Trip has now officially made it from coast-to-coast. Back in October, it was the Atlantic Ocean that we saw from our vacation apartment in Florida before we set out on the road. Here’s a view of that ocean at sunset, taken while sitting at a table at our favorite little quick-dinner spot by Melbourne Beach:

Sunset over the Atlantic, October 2015

Here in California, of course, it’s the Pacific Ocean you spot when you have an ocean view. Here’s another version of that sunset photo I posted yesterday, but with the additional note that it’s the Pacific Ocean you’re seeing under those sun beams:

Sunset over the Pacific, December 2015

We’ll be in California for the rest of the year, but we’re not staying too long in Southern California. Tomorrow, we start heading north. Stay tuned.