Two Nights in San Diego #2
At the Westin - Tue, 25 Jun 2024, 9pmI had choices for when to fly to San Diego Tuesday afternoon. It's not like traveling to New York, or even Chicago, where there might be only one reasonable flight (or two, on different airlines, but at similar times). There were at least four different but reasonable timing options. ( Read more... )

Two Nights in San Diego #1
SJC Airport - Tue, 25 Jun 2024, 2pm

This afternoon I'm off to San Diego on a business trip. No, I didn't fly here straight from Alaska, where I posted my most recent blog. I got home from Alaska 5½ days ago. I'm still catching up on my blog backlog from it! I have a few more Alaska blogs to publish. Meanwhile I'll also ( Read more... )

I'm still working on my beer tasting project. Yes, this is the one I originally called my 2022 beer tasting project. I didn't think I'd be at it this long when I started. The 43 beers I've tasted spread across 40 blogs- 41 as of this entry- in addition to stretching 24 months across 3 years on the calendar. And this is the first time in 6 months I' ( Read more... )

Hurricane Hilary, downgraded first to Tropical Storm Hilary and now just Post-Tropical Cyclone Hilary (that really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?), has traveled across Southern California and into Nevada. Tropical storms hitting California are rare. The last was Nora in 1997 ( Read more... )

It's now been a week since we spent a day at Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego. I'm still catching up because 1) I spent several days immediately following this at a sales conference generally working 12-16 hours a day and 2) there's so much to share.

After we finished up walking the sea cliffs and tidepools on the ocean side of the park we ( Read more... )

Visiting the tide pools at Cabrillo National Monument (see previous blog, "Barnacles Galore!") was fun even if they were a bit crowded. Still, it was possible to enjoy moments of relative solitude. It was simply a matter of perspective. ...Photographic perspective, in this case.


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Our visit to Cabrillo National Monument last weekend, which we thought might be just an hour or two long, see-it-and-leave thing, turned into several hours of walking amid beautiful scenery. After walking along the sea cliffs from a remote parking lot we arrived at the tide pools area. There were a lot of people, many of them families with young ( Read more... )

Sometimes when you find something great or do something enjoyable you pause for a moment to kick yourself for not doing it sooner. Thus it was last weekend when we finally visited Cabrillo National Monument ( Read more... )

Last weekend we traveled to San Diego for a few wintertime hikes. Though the weather hasn't been too shabby up here in Northern California this month- it has reached near 70 as highs the past few days, and highs up to 77 (25 C) are in the forecast this coming week- Southern California is more predictably nice. Last weekend was no exception ( Read more... )

SAN Airport - Mon, 17 Feb 2020, 5:20pm

I'm at San Diego airport now, awaiting my flight to Las Vegas for a work conference. Oh, wait... what happened to me being halfway down into a canyon on a hike to a trio of waterfalls in remote eastern San Diego county? What happened is that my blog has been lagging behind, as it often does when I'm busy ( Read more... )