Road Trips : Los Banos and Salinas : Salinas 2
9 March 2002 (Continued)
Salinas is an interesting town for fans of neon and old commercial architecture. One section of South Main Street features an amazing bowling alley (with full functioning neon), a former Lucky supermarket, and assorted other oddities.
Downtown and North Main are worth drive-throughs as well.
We also managed to scope out our likely breakfast establishment.
We concluded the neon tour with a somewhat vintage Safeway on Alisal, which I'd photgraphed before in the daytime. I was a little disappointed to see the sign neither illuminated nor spinning, but it was still impressive.
We picked up beer and other necessities at the Safeway and headed back to out Motel 6. We managed to get the heat working after about a half hour or so. And then we settled in and curled up for "Saturday Night Live" and other entertainments. For added flavor, we listened to out next door neighbors having very loud sex. That was fun. We vowed to annoy them by even noisier on Sunday morning.
I was close to comatose by this point from the food, from the previous night's sleep deprivation, and from my first two beers in about six months. I slept hard.