Farmer's Market

On our last morning in LA, we walked the short distance over to the Farmer's Market for brunch with Dan Kimpel, a long time friend of mine. Dan is an authority on popular music and songwriters. He's an author, speaker and lecturer; he produces content for airlines; he does on camera interviews with celebrities for ASCAP; he writes for Music Connection magazine in LA and lots of other exciting entertainment biz stuff. Dan is a very charming and animated character, so he kept us all laughing for the few hours we were together.

As we were leaving, we stood up in front of the Korean Barbecue to take a picture. Suddenly, there was a huge influx of elderly tourists. Dan, being the first to reach the Korean BBQ, was essentially trapped by the flow of people, so he began to greet the visitors, welcoming each of them to LA. Just seeing him use that moment to say 'hey, thanks for coming, great to have you here' to each of them, and seeing them respond to him as if he were an official Farmer's Market greeter was truly hilarious. Loll snapped the photo of us with Dan that you can see above and we parted ways.

Special thank to Dan, a regular reader of this blog, for taking the time to drive over to meet us on a Sunday morning and for giving us such a good time. Soon after this meeting, we checked out of our LA hotel and hit the road headed north to Santa Cruz.