This is a waterway connecting the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
This is Dad's childhood nickname for Greg.
What is "the shadow?"
This city is one of the largest strawberry producers in the US.
What is Oxnard?
"Politicial pimps and prostitutes"
What does Dad call the "triple P's?"
A cake topped with maraschino cherries.
What is a pineapple upside down cake?
This is the largest island in French Polynesia shaped like a figure 8.
What is Tahiti?
One of Dad's affectionate names for Mom--especially writing.
What is "BB?"
This city has a museum dedicated entirely to pasta.
What is Rome?
"Artifical ignorance"
What does Dad call "AI?"
One of Dad's favorite dinners for which he requires thick tomatoes and thin onions.
What is a hamburger?
This Spanish island is Nick's first trip with grandma and grandpa, and where grandpa asked nick to be more like a native american vs a rhinocerous.
What is Ibiza?
This name is thought to refer to someone who lived near a meadow with a small pond.
What is Pulskamp?
This city is referred to as "Nashville West" and known for music, oil, and agriculture.
What is Bakersfield?
"Do you have a disco here?"
What is the question Dad asked hotels before booking a room?
This is a restaurant named after a hat.
What is El Sombrero?
This is an american sailboat designed by Robert Perry as a racer-cruiser and first build in 1978.
What is a Nordic 40?
Dad's childhood nickname for Victor.
What is "Chief Fullblast?"
This building was referred to as "the Pacman building" by some people.
What is Dad's old office building on San Dimas?
This is what Dad calls any male adolescent going fast on a motorcycle/boat/car.
What is a Zoom-Zoom boy?
Dad stops for these on his drive to Sea Ranch.
What is an oyster?
This race was originally supposed to begin in SF, but because of the april 18, 1906 earthquake, moved to begin in LA.
What is the Transpac?
This name/word means to "wait in hiding to attack" and purportedly was going to be Flint's name before Mom interceded.
What is Bushwhack?
This city is the birthplace of the iconic oreo cookie.
What is Columbus?
This is an acroynum Dad uses to describe a male adolescent making questionable decisions.
What is "TMTTLB?" "too much testosterone, too little brains"
This is a prepackaged frozen dessert invented by brothers IC and JT Parket of Fort Worth Texas.
What is a drumstick?