Rock Out With Your Brocc Out

A meager crowd passed down La Mesa Boulevard while we fanned ourselves with the Peninsula Beacon under our tent at the Friday market.

"Jeremy's trying to get rid of some Kaaboo tickets for tomorrow," Kate said.  "Big Boi, Billy Idol & N.E.R.D."

Kate & I had went to all three days of the Del Mar Music & Arts Festival two years before.  

We were also there two weeks before, when someone fired a gun into the air because tickets were sold out for the Ice Cube concert.  Fortunately, the man was apprehended & no one was hurt.  

"I think we should go.  We can go over to Jax's place after Poway & then head down there," Kate said.  

It was a bold idea & she did have a swimming pool in her complex.  And, we'd been overworked with Mad Munch, doing six markets a week for quite a while.  And our Cheezer of the Month for September was "Rock Out with Your Brocc Out."  

"Sure. what the hell- let's do it!" I said.  

When you work weird hours & on weekends you have carve out some time to hang out with your friends.  And, I'm so glad we did.  

The Del Mar Racetrack was not to be deterred by a gunman weeks before their biggest gathering of the year.  Kaaboo was bigger & better than ever.  We didn't know it that weekend, but it was one of the last times it was held there or at all.

Either way, Kate & I loaded up the Escape with extra ice & supplies, had a great day at Poway, drove to Jax's, went swimming & walked down the hill.   I saw Stone Temple Pilots perform & she saw Melissa Ethridge.  We both saw Big Boi, part of Billy Idol's set & N.E.R.D. afterwards.  What a night.

The next morning, we iced up & drove down to La Jolla Open Aire.  The crowd was light that day & so were sales.  After a small lunch rush, someone texted Kate that they had an extra ticket.  

"Should we go back today?" she asked.

I checked our stock of Sourdough & the big cooler.   

"I think we got just enough to get through lunch at Bernardo Exec tomorrow," I said.

So, we packed up, backed up the Escape from the ball diamond when it was our turn & raced out of town on the 5 north.  

There wasn't enough time to hit the pool but we had just enough time to catch Alice In Chains, Slash & Miles Kennedy, Wiz Kalifa, & Robert Plant.  His closeout performance gave us enough inspiration to name a Mad Munch Cheezer after him:  "Robert Eggplant" debuted three years later & is still featured on the "Hidden Menu."

They were still talking about his performance on the radio on Monday when we were set up in Rancho Bernardo at the office park.  Our last stop of the wild weekend concert & market tour.