Ode to The Coronado Bridge connecting San Diego (mainland) to Coronado Island. I just saw a picture of the bridge under construction in 1968.

I first began traveling over that bridge in 1972.

Thoroughly enjoying a marathon of "Back To The Future"

For the Tiki the Snow Away month in January 2019, I was inspired by the 1940 Pat O'Brien's Hurricane as a starting point (and not the current bastardization they serve now), and somehow it entered my mind that I could cross it with the Japanese Cocktail from Jerry Thomas' 1862 book. For a name, I opted for the Japanese term for the storm: Harikēn.

In thinking about lesser known Tiki drinks that have stood the test of time in my mind, the Pago Pago from the 1940 The How And When came to mind. I thought about how it could be riffed into a Batavia Arrack drink, but it needed more changes to differentiate it from the original. One of the Batavia Arrack recipes that popped into my head was the more recent Seven Seas Swizzle that paired the spirit with green tea syrup, lime, and orange bitters. In researching the South Pacific, I came across a New England link in the Marshall Island chain. In 1823, the Nantucket-based whaler The Globe suffered a mutiny that led their ship to the Mili Atoll; the mutineers killed the captain and three officers, and they left the rest on the atoll where the natives did in all but two.

Little Joe Jackson wins The Irish Sweepstakes in "Cabin In The Sky"