Month: December 2018

  • A walk along San Diego’s Embarcadero

    Walking along San Diego’s Embarcadero brought back a lot of unexpected memories. But I’ll get to that in a moment. Far too late in my […]

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  • Maritime Museum of San Diego

    This one’s a little strange: San Diego’s Maritime Museum is just a collection of various old ships and submarines you can wander around. I walked […]

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  • USS Midway Museum

    Initially I didn’t plan on visiting the USS Midway Museum as it sits right in the most touristy part of San Diego, next to the […]

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  • Tijuana street food tour

    I spent this afternoon on a guided street food tour of Tijuana. Starting at the Blue Line trolley stop near my Airbnb, I took a […]

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  • San Diego’s Balboa Park

    I suspected one of the places I had to see in San Diego was Balboa Park, but I also knew very little about it. Where […]

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  • Gaslamp Walking Tour

    During my first visit to San Diego I remember walking across a busy street and set of train tracks from the Convention Center to the […]

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  • San Diego Central Library

    From certain angles the San Diego downtown skyline has a strange feature; an egg-shaped dome. Even from a distance the dome doesn’t appear solid but […]

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  • Spruce Street Suspension Bridge at night

    Every old city has its unique elements, but San Diego’s Spruce Street Suspension Bridge is a particularly peculiar element of its early 20th century heritage. […]

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  • San Diego’s waterfront sculptures

    San Diego’s waterfront has a lot of touristy crap — pedicabs, people hawking “homemade” wares, living statues, dubious ferry rides, etc. Taking a walk down […]

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  • San Diego first impressions… again

    It’s been over a decade since my last visit to San Diego — and that was for a conference so it doesn’t count. (Especially if […]

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