Over the four or five days I have two words for you: night swimming
Find someone with a pool. Tell them you’re bringing over beer. Happen to have a swim suit on. Hope for some hospitality and a pool owner that picks up on visual cues.
The brutality:
But then the release:
Just try to enjoy things when the sun goes down and know that the end of Summer is getting close.
You may be asking, “What is Urban Hiking?” Well, I think it can be several things.
It can be long walks (never mind the tempo) in town, whether from your home or taking a vehicle to a certain spot and walking from there.
It can be walking a long distance in town. Long enough, you might want to bring a backpack with water and stuff. Most likely taking a specific route and/or having a destination.
It can be doing an urban hike beer crawl.
You don’t need woods, elevation gain, or maintained trails to call something a hike.
If there is an extra layer to your walking around time, that’s when you can call it a hike. And if you’re doing it in town, it’s an urban hike. There is a post on jasonexplorer.com that explains it more.
Really, I want to call my walking “urban hiking” so it sounds friggin’ cooler, OKAY?!?
Now that that is settled, I am getting into hiking in the Sierra and Urban Hiking. I started small in my [old] neighborhood last year. First to Basin Park:
Then stepped up a little and went to Out Of The Barrel:
I am now slowly building my own list of Fresno urban hikes that I will be trickling out here on The Fresnan, so keep eyes on the trail for more. Some that exist and others I curate.
For more Urban Fresno hiking, check out a recent one I did on the Northern SJR Bluffs.
I saw this sign on a fence in front of an Old Fig house while on a walk the other day and now I want to have my own yard certified!
Okay, well, I don’t have a house or a yard at the moment, but if I ever get one again, I am totally doing it!
Things you need to do to get your Fresno habitat certified:
Check https://www.nwf.org/Native-Plant-Habitats/Create-and-Certify/At-Home for a detailed list of requirements.
Go to nwf.org/garden for more details on the requirements and more info.
Feeling thankful to have Gazebo Gardens around. It’s pretty damn unique and borders on something necessary for a city.
I am not talking about the nursery/plant aspect of it either. I am talking about the third space feature for friend and family groups.
In case you don’t know, Thursday – Saturday evenings Gazebo Gardens nursery turns into a beer garden & food truck court. Complete with seating and some shade.
There are very few places you can meet up with people without having to reserve or hawk a big table, or worry if “all of your party is here yet”.
Just show up around a time. Eat, don’t eat. Drink beer, don’t drink. Kids can wander around. You can wander around. It’s great.
Sure, I get tired of it too, like any place. I am here to appreciate the looseness of it all, and there isn’t much of that out there.
Related: As I sat on Shields yesterday waiting for a train to pass, I caught a little bit of the blues coming from Gazebo
This pour little cart got left out all night.
Whole Foods in Fig Garden is well closed, so this little guy got left out. I feel bad for him. So lonely. I know how ya feel, brother.
Let’s hope the person that opens at Whole Foods tomorrow morning corals you proper so you can be with your friends again.
The fries at In-N-Out suck. They just do. But they are unique to In-N-Out. I have always enjoyed them for that. They may not be great, but they are all In-N-Out’s.
The uniqueness of In-N-Out: The vibe, restaurant setup, California chain, simple food menu, super friendly staff, the secret menu, and yes, the fries.
Sadly all that is tainted because the nepo baby owner, Lynsi Snyder, (who didn’t come up with a damn ass thing that In-N-Out is successful for) has decided California is too lame and is creating an office in Tennessee so she can move her family there because California is “SOOOO harrrd guuuuyyyyz”
“Raising a family is not…easy here. Doing business is not easy here.” says the billionaire nepo baby.
Dude, California MADE you! You became iconic because of us. You are rich as shit because we bragged about you to everyone not in California. Brought all the people visiting to your dad’s restaurant.
I had always admired In-N-Out for being at or near the top of pay for fast-food workers. It seems that was dad’s policy, not the nepo do nothing daughter’s. She would rather move somewhere whiter where she can pay employees less. Let’s be real.
It always comes back to more when you are so rich you don’t know what else to do.
“That’s just business!” some will say. I say that is just bullshit. It’s just fucking greed.
Disrespectful to the people (Californians) who got you where you are today. So little is respected anymore.
How hard could it be to live your life out as a billionaire in the greatest state in the country? Dear God.
The basket of fries pictured above was the first time I went to the Blackstone & Nees In-N-Out. My go-to is Blackstone & Ashlan. I can’t say I will never go to an In-N-Out again because of this betrayal; that would be unrealistic.
But I will hate myself a little bit when I do. Just like Lynsi should be doing right now.