Post #247598 by Chongolio on Tue, Aug 8, 2006 11:58 AM

Totally fun!! I am very stoked I made it down. Whoppin' thanks to Teri and Vid for throwing a great party and all the bands and vendors who showed up for an entertaining day under the sun. For the most part it was really a unique get together with plenty of cool folks from different scenes, great music and fun movies. I got the shivers when all the old hot rods came rolling in first thing in the morning with thier motors thumpin' and all the enthusiast hootin' and hollerin' Also watchin' Cobra Women with the Rapa Nui peanut gallery narration was pretty damn funny. (Did Grog learn to talk on Cobra Island?) It's always a treat to hang out with all the old So Cal friends and see some of the Nor Cal peeps down in the Southlands, and it is always a pleasure meeting face to face the familiar names here on TC. Yeah, it was HOT and sales were on the slow side, but I am not going to complain. I had a booth that gave me a front row seat for the Martini Kings who played perfectly among Diablo's Handiwork under the awnings of the snack bar. I was also able to hear all the main stage bands perfectly from my booth. (BTD is right, It was pretty loud.)

Special thanks to everybody who traded and bought stuff from all the vendors. More thanks to JonPaul and Marie for helping man the booth. To BTD for snappin' some Ghastly One pics, the turkey sandwiches, water, chairs, boom box and the movie lounging area. More thanks to Kirby and Polly for bringing the beers and to Ran and Dale for the Reverb Crash. Mahalo also to Crazy Al for volunteering his extra tie downs when my pop up kept threatning to take to the skys and my other neighbor the Ice cream guy who gave out free ice cream at the end of the day.

I do regret not gettin' out of work mode and taking more pics and checkin' out more of the cars, bands and vendor's boothes. I also wish I could of spent more time just hangin' out and going over to HB on Sunday. But by the end of the day under the sun sizzlin', I was pretty crispy around the gills and already lamenting a long drive home to be back up north by Monday morning to work. Of course in retrospect there are a few things that should be sorted out for future events at Mission Tiki. But overall it was a blast and worth the trip and I got a surf in on my way through Ventura where I also spotted a few carved tikis near the underpass at the end of Main in Ventura.

I have a few pics over at Barefoot Bloggin' for anybody interested in peekin'.

Chongolio