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Hey All, DJ Tonjia Atomic here with the eighth and final installment of the Webelos tour diary.

09-01-07

Day Eight- Sacramento, CA

We are in Fairoaks which is a suburb of Sacrameto?
Played: NA
Other bands: NA

Ate at Sunflower and stopped at the Olive Pit

me: We woke up and turned on the TV. We just couldn’t tear ourselves away from Red Dragon for a while- Ed Norton and all (also it was awful). Then we went to Sunflower for nut burgers and smoothies. I guess that Fairoaks is known for having roosters that just live there and hang out. We went to the park and saw tons of roosters. Then Josh and I went to the hardware store so he could buy a little fan because it was so shit balls hot! Then it was off to I-5 for the long stretch home.

The longest drive ever happened to us this day. We kept trying to figure out if there was an easy way to get to highway 1 so we could drive along the coast, but alas, there was none. We drove back the way that we came- along I-5. All of the sudden (hours later) we saw this huge billboard for some place called the Olive Pit. Every couple of miles or so we saw these mystical glittering signs. The Olive Pit claimed coffee, ice cream, fruit, nuts, fun for kids, and olives…olives…OLIVES!!!! Some of the billboards portrayed a small boy completely enraptured by a large green olive. You know how kids love olives…. We were captured by the intrigue of this so called Olive Pit. We followed the signs for many miles and when, finally we reached this oasis we had to make a stop.

We were expecting a sort of rustic mom and pop type of country store kind of place from the billboards advertising the Olive Pit. What we found was a giant warehouse full of jars of Olives in what looked like an abandoned Sherry’s. The coffee that it boasted was an old pot of Boyd’s and the ice cream were opened boxes of Dryers sitting in a freezer. I made the mistake of buying an intense coffee slurpie. The one thing that did live up to its reputation was the tasting station where we had an olive or two in the name of adventure. I was disappointed that there were no lemon olives, which I recently discovered are really good tequila chasers.

Another long stretch of road and we were in Oregon where we stopped at an actual Sherry’s. I ordered stuffed hash browns but received regular hash browns and then decided that the stuffed hash browns were probably gross. From there we were going to drive all the way back to Seattle, but I was so tired and out of it that I wouldn’t have been able to make it the entire way. Jim called his friend, one that we met in at the house show the first night, and we stayed with her. Josh slept on the couch and I made a little bed on the floor next to him out of sleeping bags.

In the morning we woke up and were mesmerized by an Ed Norton movie that was on TV. I was also mesmerized by a cute black kittie that looked a little like mine. We went out for a nice brunch and then to the great big bookstore that is so famous.

Our ride home was much easier that day. We stopped at my parent’s house to get Josh’s car. Then Josh went straight to Hollow Earth Radio for his DJ shift!

After we unloaded the equipment I took Jim home to the now defunct S. S. Marie Antoinette. Then it was home sweet home!!

~DJ Tonjia Atomic