the days are just packed ...
as Calvin said.
Quail Gardens yesterday, a botanical garden near San Diego. In the late afternoon we went to La Jolla to the beach, but owing to traffic, total lack of parking, and not understanding the distance from the entrance to the actual beach, we only saw a few minutes before sunset. We went on to D. G. Wills Books in La Jolla. A great used and new bookstore, with the packed to overflowing decor of the truly great bookstore. One of the owners helped me out, chatted with me about his photo books, showed me some good books from his local history section that covered Anza Borrego, and just made the whole thing a very pleasant expedition. I did buy a lot of books, but
Today we went to Ramona (hawk watching for a couple of hours), Dudley (baked bread), Julian (pie) and Anza Borrego (sleeping here and hiking). We only had time for a short hike before dark but it gave me an idea of what hiking in the desert is like (scrambling over rocks, because it's hard to distinguish the trail from non-trail). We've rented a three bedroom house, with full kitchen, a garage, and washer/dryer, for (drum roll) $110 a night. I've been pleasantly shocked by how much more you get just renting a whole house than you do for a hotel room. Admittedly, this doesn't work as well for events like WisCon, but if you're doing outdoors stuff, sites like http://vrbo.com and http://homeaway.com are well worth looking into.
Pictures and perhaps some details eventually, but for now the days are just packed, and the nights contain clean up work (packing for the next day, clearing photos off of memory cards and into a semi-organized library, recharging all the various batteries), plus planning where we're going. I have Sean's computer down here and hope to get a little time at night to figure out what's making it slow (apart from the whole Windows sucks thing).
Getting up early. Bed soon.
Quail Gardens yesterday, a botanical garden near San Diego. In the late afternoon we went to La Jolla to the beach, but owing to traffic, total lack of parking, and not understanding the distance from the entrance to the actual beach, we only saw a few minutes before sunset. We went on to D. G. Wills Books in La Jolla. A great used and new bookstore, with the packed to overflowing decor of the truly great bookstore. One of the owners helped me out, chatted with me about his photo books, showed me some good books from his local history section that covered Anza Borrego, and just made the whole thing a very pleasant expedition. I did buy a lot of books, but
Today we went to Ramona (hawk watching for a couple of hours), Dudley (baked bread), Julian (pie) and Anza Borrego (sleeping here and hiking). We only had time for a short hike before dark but it gave me an idea of what hiking in the desert is like (scrambling over rocks, because it's hard to distinguish the trail from non-trail). We've rented a three bedroom house, with full kitchen, a garage, and washer/dryer, for (drum roll) $110 a night. I've been pleasantly shocked by how much more you get just renting a whole house than you do for a hotel room. Admittedly, this doesn't work as well for events like WisCon, but if you're doing outdoors stuff, sites like http://vrbo.com and http://homeaway.com are well worth looking into.
Pictures and perhaps some details eventually, but for now the days are just packed, and the nights contain clean up work (packing for the next day, clearing photos off of memory cards and into a semi-organized library, recharging all the various batteries), plus planning where we're going. I have Sean's computer down here and hope to get a little time at night to figure out what's making it slow (apart from the whole Windows sucks thing).
Getting up early. Bed soon.