New Year’s eve in Pasadena. Rose Bowl Parade tomorrow morn. Colorado Blvd is cranking. One big relaxed street party where:
It is chic to be homeless for a night here… 
You get to go and be intimate with the parade as they set up…
It is wild, relaxed and makes me smile…
Looks like Grace wants to cry. note it is 32f/ 0c… so quite cool… 
Uncrowded viewing of the floats as they set up …
Big, big smiles
The Native Iowan 
[…] Much later in my life I became a Rose Bowl Parade junkie. I had an apartment 2blocks off Colorado Blvd for a number of years. The Rose Bowl Parade, as it preps to march on New Years morning, offers the best street party I have ever experienced. https://nativeiowan.com/2015/01/01/mikes-bikes-gotta-luv-a-parade/ […]
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