And..... it's Monday. Breakfast at DayDream in Costa Mesa with Mike de Wit. The week could have started a lot worse. Nice food place within a surf shop. Cali style. It was great to catch up with Choq and it was good to hear about the good news. Congrats. Mondays in LA. Not the busiest so all good. We hit the shops we wanted to visit. Some of them were closed so we had to come back for those but we started off at the new adidas flagship store at Melrose across the street from Cherry Los Angeles. For some reason Monday was a bank holiday which provided free parking. When you hop in and out stores it was nice not having to worry about parking meters that don't work and getting a ticket. We were in and out at Bathing Ape and discovered that the Palace store was closed. Next up: Supreme. We checked the same store a year ago so not much had changed. That goes for several of the stores we re-visited. We stopped by Kith and were still amazed by the curved handrail outside the store that has been hit on a skateboard. What was also amazing was that the Kith ice cream menu had "The Sylvester" flavour on it. Indeed, Nigel Sylvester has his own ice cream flavour at Kith, and it tasted good (had to try it). We took some photos of graffiti for future background use on Instagram. Might as well collect it while you're there. GOLF was checked, HUF was gone, Beyond The Streets was in between shows, Arc'terex has nice stuff and we strolled through the Carhartt store on La Brea. Next stop: In 'n Out Burger. We found one a bit North of LA. It was packed and a bit shady but the burger tasted good.
From LA we had planned to go visit Scott Blatt in Santa Rosa Valley. Although this area was hit by the wildfires, we never really saw any of it. We arrived at Scott's and went for some food and a beer and got the Monday night football night lecture. I think OHIO won but I could be wrong. Shopping wears you out. Time for sleep. Goodnight.
BdJ