New Setups on Tuesdays

There was only one farmers market in San Diego county on Mondays & I went & checked it out after hiking outside of Fallbrook.  The lone Monday market was at the Lawrence Welk Resort, was from 3-7pm & was a little over an hour's drive from OB.  

There were a few hot food tents there but it was mostly arts & crafts for the tourists to mill over.

I just couldn't see Mad Munch having a booth there or Kate & I driving north on the 15 past Escondido every week.  I wouldn't have been worth it.  

Besides, I felt like having Sundays & Mondays off, were the best days to have off.  Sundays in the fall we spent watching NFL football with our friends, unwinding at the beach or in our yard & Mondays were a great day to go for a hike or run errands without all of the weekend traffic.  And, Saturdays we were usually home from Scripps Ranch by 2pm, leaving the whole rest of the day open as well.

But, Tuesdays were the big question mark.  We definitely weren't going back to Mira Mesa & when I checked out one of Dave's (the OB Market Manager) other markets in Otay Ranch, he already had a grilled cheese vendor- Ye Olde Grilled Cheese Shop & the market wasn't big enough for two grilled cheese vendors.

So, Kate ended up finding a different kind of setup for us.  We'd drive out to a suburb of San Diego & pop-up our tent at an apartment complex.  

The first one we did was at Del Mar Ridge Apartments.  We set up there in a parking space next to the office seven different times through the end of the year & into spring 2018.  We averaged selling around twenty Cheezers each visit & it was a nice way to ease into the week after doing my shopping trip to Restaurant Depot on Tuesday mornings.

There were a few other apartment complexes we tried out on other open Tuesdays.  There was Canyon Ridge in Clairemont, Portofino in Mission Valley & Montierra Apartments, just down the road from the Scripps Ranch market.  Del Mar Ridge was the best moneymaker for us.

We also setup at a elementary school's Book Fair one week & a "Trunk or Treat" on Halloween that was very good for us back at the Bonita Valley Church.