Andrea is leaving National Burger Month Headquarters in two days to leave us for less-burgerful climes in Switzerland. We're trying to pack in as many Santa Cruz things for her to do, which invariably meant that a beach bonfire needed to happen. Burgers like bonfires too so we took them along. They had a blast.
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Santa Cruz at dusk
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Our humble fire. The hippies in the next fire pit were kicked off the beach by the beach patrol. They had a much larger fire that spilled out of the pit and onto the sand. I don't know if they were kicked off for the fire or for their hippieness and their celebration of the earth vibrations.
Our burgers tonight were straightforward, traditional burgers: just some chuck with garlic salt and pepper, a little melted provolone and seared pancetta on top. Very nice.
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A wayward chicken-basil sausage was lost to the coals because Andrea was overzealous in protecting her burgers.
Happy customers, everyone, including the guy who only ate chicken-basil sausages.
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Santa Cruz at dusk
![](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/2515909681_5a980b7556.jpg)
Our humble fire. The hippies in the next fire pit were kicked off the beach by the beach patrol. They had a much larger fire that spilled out of the pit and onto the sand. I don't know if they were kicked off for the fire or for their hippieness and their celebration of the earth vibrations.
Our burgers tonight were straightforward, traditional burgers: just some chuck with garlic salt and pepper, a little melted provolone and seared pancetta on top. Very nice.
![](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2277/2516733984_9753f886c3.jpg)
A wayward chicken-basil sausage was lost to the coals because Andrea was overzealous in protecting her burgers.
Happy customers, everyone, including the guy who only ate chicken-basil sausages.