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Skriven 2012-04-07 04:24:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: trip rep 514
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My accommodation this night was the Aloft Phoenix Airport,
which was pretty much like any other Aloft, friendly and
comfy enough, with free wi-fi for all, and sort of fake
trendy. The weird thing is that there's no sign out front
and no entrance out front: you access it from the southeast
corner or the west side of an office park area (no signs
at either driveway). Really badly thought out, either that
or an IQ test. They gave me a handicap room, which was just
like every other Aloft room I've had except that the
bathroom was twice as big and had a wheel-in shower, which
is ugly but functional.

No free breakfast here, so I was thankful for those two
uneaten bananas.

Angels at San Fran, Scottsdale Stadium. As Bill was no
longer joining us, we felt free to eschew the various costly
parking options and park for free half a mile away uptown.
Many people seemed to be doing so, but there were plenty of
on-street spaces. It's a not unpleasant and very quick walk
in the springtime anyway. I hadn't been here in ages. It's
a pretty nice older park right in town, accessible by public
trans well, you take the bus or light rail, and there's a
free shuttle from the depot). As it's Scottsdale, tickets
are extortionately expensive, and the concessions likewise,
though the food is better than at the other parks. We got
bleacher seats that cost more than the boxes at the other
places; whatever. The Giants took a 2-0 lead, but the
visitors soon made it 5-2, the Giants loading the bases but
scoring only once in the bottom of the ninth, losing 5-3
in a singularly unexciting game where the food and drink
were the attraction. Alex had a dog, which I guess was okay;
I found a Don and Charlie's booth and prevailed on them to
ask the guy in back for a dose of brisket extra moist. This
request was granted in spades, a heap of fatty smoky meat
on big slabs of Texas toast, sided with decent though very
warm slaw and a little bag of Ruffles. I dressed the sandwich
with Rooster sriracha rather than BBQ sauce. It was quite
good and also huge, so I let Alex have some of it.

Bombers of Sierra Nevada were $12. After the game we wasted
a bit of time so all that food would settle before our next
meal, which was at Royal Thai, one of our favorite places in
town, in a small strip mall in Mesa that just happens to be
owned by Carl. He seems to be liked well enough by his
tenants, and on this occasion he treated us to dinner, which
from what he said was not very expensive, as Chuckie had
comped the beers.


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