slickrock
02-07-2007, 11:13 AM
I am brining this up since my wife wants to go back but this time, rent out a beech house for the weekend.If I wanted to go to Tijuana I would, but I went to the boardwalk to play games and ride rides, not buy chickle on the corner
My family and I went to Santa Cruz when I was a kid for a day trip since we lived in Stockton. I remember it being a nice clean area with surfers living in the little shacks smoking weed. Now that my son was born, my wife and I decided to do the same (15 years later) Got there Friday night last summer to a hotel 2 blocks from the main entrance and went straight to be. Next morning we started walking to the entrance. Well the first intersection 3 dudes started whistling and making gestures at my wife. She is hot (5’5” 105 lbs, brunette and no I will not post pictures ) and this made me angry to say the least. If I was alone, I would have thrown down with all three of them. I am not big but I have been in more then enough situations as to where I was the only one to walk away from it and these half drunk (at 8 am) vagrants would have at least remembered me even if I didn’t win. But since my wife and child were with me, I had to gather them up and get them to the entrance safely. Sure I had to walk away from it, but how do you explain to the 3 year old that it is OK for daddy to fight someone and not OK for him to? I just wanted to get my little clan away and safe. If I threw down, that would not have happened.
I really started looking around and where did the broke surfers living in the little shacks go? The place looks like little Tijuana? What a let down. Santa Cruz is an American tradition, not a vacation to Mexico. There is trash everywhere and taco and gum peddlers on every corner with like 15 people living in a one room apartment so they do all their cooking and bathing outside. I am never taking my child or wife there again. Too dangerous. If little Tijuanans are brave enough to do that in my face, what would happen if I wasn’t with my wife? The Santa Cruz cops and city should go through and raise the rent on the places so the place gets a more upscale clientele. Surfers could afford it since they can grow their cash and I would rather have that then getting mugged while walking in flip-flops and carrying a child and a cotton candy. I don’t want to have to be armed to be on vacation with my family unless it is to protect myself from bears and wolves in the mountains.
Some may think this is racist, but it isn't intended to be. It is just a statement about how let down a once funfilled vacation turned out to be.
My family and I went to Santa Cruz when I was a kid for a day trip since we lived in Stockton. I remember it being a nice clean area with surfers living in the little shacks smoking weed. Now that my son was born, my wife and I decided to do the same (15 years later) Got there Friday night last summer to a hotel 2 blocks from the main entrance and went straight to be. Next morning we started walking to the entrance. Well the first intersection 3 dudes started whistling and making gestures at my wife. She is hot (5’5” 105 lbs, brunette and no I will not post pictures ) and this made me angry to say the least. If I was alone, I would have thrown down with all three of them. I am not big but I have been in more then enough situations as to where I was the only one to walk away from it and these half drunk (at 8 am) vagrants would have at least remembered me even if I didn’t win. But since my wife and child were with me, I had to gather them up and get them to the entrance safely. Sure I had to walk away from it, but how do you explain to the 3 year old that it is OK for daddy to fight someone and not OK for him to? I just wanted to get my little clan away and safe. If I threw down, that would not have happened.
I really started looking around and where did the broke surfers living in the little shacks go? The place looks like little Tijuana? What a let down. Santa Cruz is an American tradition, not a vacation to Mexico. There is trash everywhere and taco and gum peddlers on every corner with like 15 people living in a one room apartment so they do all their cooking and bathing outside. I am never taking my child or wife there again. Too dangerous. If little Tijuanans are brave enough to do that in my face, what would happen if I wasn’t with my wife? The Santa Cruz cops and city should go through and raise the rent on the places so the place gets a more upscale clientele. Surfers could afford it since they can grow their cash and I would rather have that then getting mugged while walking in flip-flops and carrying a child and a cotton candy. I don’t want to have to be armed to be on vacation with my family unless it is to protect myself from bears and wolves in the mountains.
Some may think this is racist, but it isn't intended to be. It is just a statement about how let down a once funfilled vacation turned out to be.