May. 10th, 2010
Hometown pride.
May. 10th, 2010 07:24 pmThe Jamba Juice gift card has $10 on it - enough to buy a lunch of a flatbread and a smoothie. I also learned that today the franchise is giving out free frozen goods, so I got a blueberry-pomegranate yogurt popsicle and ate it while reading comics at the nearby Borders. After that I biked up to the North Ponds for no reason other than the rain had finally let up for long enough to get there and back without worrying about it.
When I was biking around it occured to me - not for the first time - that'd it'd be pretty easy to sell Davis as a summertime vacation spot. There's the heat, which most people don't like, and there's also the risk of Davis losing its weirdness and oddities with an influx of people who aren't in the market for those things, but I'm sure both of those could be put into the general package. It's small, it's flat and easy to navigate, when the students are gone it becomes a small town, there's always something neat to do even if it's walking along the Arboretum and looking for turtles. It's very charming with its own character, plus it's a short train ride to San Francisco, within driving distance to the mountains, you don't need a car and can just rent a bike to get around. And there's the fact that it's in California, with all the light that comes with it - you could bottle up and sell this light, and get people to come here for the light alone.
I admit I'm biased. But you would be, too. If you can visit, I think you'd have a great time.
When I was biking around it occured to me - not for the first time - that'd it'd be pretty easy to sell Davis as a summertime vacation spot. There's the heat, which most people don't like, and there's also the risk of Davis losing its weirdness and oddities with an influx of people who aren't in the market for those things, but I'm sure both of those could be put into the general package. It's small, it's flat and easy to navigate, when the students are gone it becomes a small town, there's always something neat to do even if it's walking along the Arboretum and looking for turtles. It's very charming with its own character, plus it's a short train ride to San Francisco, within driving distance to the mountains, you don't need a car and can just rent a bike to get around. And there's the fact that it's in California, with all the light that comes with it - you could bottle up and sell this light, and get people to come here for the light alone.
I admit I'm biased. But you would be, too. If you can visit, I think you'd have a great time.
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