Top 10 Things I Like About Cali...

To commemorate my recent trip to the Left Coast...

#10. In-N-Out Burger...Animal Style rocks my world like a coronary rocks an old man with a history of stroke and heart disease.
#9. Even though I try to repress my desire to compare my mom's cooking as much as possible, Chinese food is excellent out there!!
#8. Wow is it clean out there...I mean for some reason, the locals really enjoy picking up after themselves. Very respectable.
#7. I can communicate with the folks in the "service" industries. I don't speak Spanish so sometimes it's hard to understand the Skycap at the airport. At SFO, I whipped out the old school Mandarin and got a cab with a discount rate!!
#6. People are very polite. Not that people aren't nice in the South, I just like polite people...even if it is fake as all get out.
#5. It's really not as different from the South as I had imagined. Sure folks are WAY more liberal but that's nice too.
#4. You can't smoke in a bar or restaurant in SF.
#3. The ladies think I have a cute accent...me having a Southern accent? Who woulda even thunk it?
#2. Skiing in Lake Tahoe is really nice. Not a good as Colorado but definitely way more convenient to get to.
#1. I don't have to live there...WHO HOO!!

Now I did get in a car accident and got pretty sick while I was there but it was still a really nice trip. Maybe I'll actually go out there again someday.