Post #44009 by Chongolio on Tue, Jul 22, 2003 12:59 PM

Well we are back in the Cruz from our trip and had a great vacation. Alphie's was very cool and the food was really good. They had a war club hanging on the wall that was MASSIVE and really bitchin'. We talked with the woman who owned Alphies and she was really sweet. Here name was Oni or Umi or something like that. She was pleased to hear we were tiki centralites and we found out about their place through T.C. (funny thing is that I used to live a few blocks away and never new it was a tiki place) I gave here a couple tiki decals and she was genuinely stoked. We didn't make it to the Kahuna Grill because we were In Goleta around 8:00 A.M and wanted to get more mile behind us before it got to late. Unfortunately Lake Rincon was ankle slappin when we stopped but we caught a few peelers in and around Venice and Ventura. We also saw a very interesting Polynesian style house on PCH near Topanga (across the street from Dukes up on the cliff) Sorry, no pic again cause I was drivin' My buddy said it was a fairly new structure. It looked like it was made from concrete and glass. It was a modern style, but you could see the Polynesian influence.
Here are a couple of pics I got of the big ol tikis at Pancho's surf shop in Pismo.


It seemed every surf shop in SLO had a few tikis in em' We looked around the Kon Tiki in Pismo but the only tiki we could find was the name. All in all we had a killer time and there were plenty of tikis popin up alll weekend!

Chongolio

-- I believe that our Heavenly Father invented the monkey because he was disappointed in man."
... Mark Twain

[ Edited by: Chongolio on 2003-07-22 13:06 ]