Post #160463 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Fri, May 20, 2005 5:24 PM

• The smell of hot iceplant along the beach

• Chocolate-dipped soft-serve cones at Foster's Freeze

• After dinner, hearing the drone of the Goodyear blimp and running outside to stand or sit on the sidewalk and watch the beautiful multi-colored light show of patterns on the blimp's belly.

• The unreproduceable sound of an AM radio playing 1970s Rock'n Roll on a hot summer day, heat waves coming off the sidewalks. Riding barefoot down the street on my skateboard.

• Taking turns cranking the ice-cream maker with my Uncles and Cousins at barbecues at our house. Pouring crushed ice and rock-salt around the cannister and taking breaks to pick boysenberries and tangerines in my backyard.

Bodysurfing with my parents and sisters at Manhattan Beach on a Sunday afternoon until it got dark, then stopping at Baskin Robbins for an ice-cream cone on the way home. Rinsing the sand off my feet with the garden hose in the front yard before crawling into my bed and sleeping with perfect exhaustion.