4/30 – Am I Done?
Some days are more exciting than others. Book illustrations are nearing completion! More table tennis was played tonight, after dumplings, of course....
4/29 – Uncle and Auntie Being Cute
Pre-birthday birthday dinner with the table tennis friends for my uncle. Chinese dinners, which are already not to be underestimated, seem extra super-sized in Texas. I don’t generally seek out Chinese food (spoiled by home cooking), but I wouldn’t have guessed Houston would be where I eat so much...
4/28 – Leaving My Shell
Back at the Handbuilt show, I met Fritz when he was taking photos of my Vespa. He invited me to dinner with his Tuesday night Euro rider group. It was a chilly night for Houston, but I always feel better after a ride, and had a great night hanging...
4/27 – A Yue Clearlake Tradition
As a kid, after dinner we would go for a drive around Clearlake and count how many deer were on campus. Tonight, after all-you-can-eat-shrimp at Bubba’s (holy shit, Texas) we counted nearly 30. Before this trip, sighting wildlife at all was a rare and fleeting thing – bears, deer,...
California One. Jan 24 – Feb 17, 2015.
Welcome to the last installment of the Bay Area posts. In total, I will have been bouncing around this motorcycle paradise for about five (5!) months. I recall the locals referring to ‘a storm’ one evening, in California winter. The air was buzzing with a need to buy milk...
4/26 – Crawfish Keeps Giving
It’s crawfish season, and our little Houston family had a boil at home. Today being Sunday, the leftovers made for a lovely brunch omelette with some spinach and bell peppers. My uncle remarked, “It’s made with egg whites? So healthy. What happened to the yolks?” Auntie: “Pudding.” Priorities here....
Vespas in Fog City. Jan 4 – 23, 2015.
Mostly local riding for this portion again, just bouncing around San Francisco. Actually, this month probably saw the least riding of my own bike – it was in the Vespa SF shop for the shorter end of an eternity. I was riding everyone else’s bike, including a branded Boomchickapop Vespa for a few days! Paid to ride,...
4/25 – Larger Than BBQ Appears
There’s so much BBQ it won’t fit in the frame. It’s beefy....
4/24 – Production Mode
I am a machine (sometimes)....
4/23 – Wonton and Ping Pong Night
In what may be the most Asian thing I’ve done in a while, I followed my uncle and aunt to play table tennis with their usual Thursday night crew, after a dinner of dumplings. I haven’t played since middle school!...