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Sky stuff… sunsets and hot air balloons…

Just another evening at my new job in San Diego.

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Another nice San Diego sunset…

I have started to take double photos with my phone when the light is fading. I take one where I touch the screen to focus the camera, and one where I don’t do that… I am not sure which is … Continue reading

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I heard this loud ‘whooshing’ sound…

I was sitting in the gate guard house at my new job as a private security officer for a luxury gated community. I suddenly heard this loud whooshing sound outside. I knew I had heard the sound before, but it … Continue reading

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We ended up back at this place…

You might recognize it. It was a big part of a movie called: Some Like It Hot, with Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, and Tony Curtis. My wife and I stayed here once for her birthday weekend. I did posts about … Continue reading

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Detours: A California adventure… the final chapter; Almost home…

Back in Southern California… sun-drenched… palm trees swaying in the gentle sea breeze… I mean, yeah, a lot of those palm trees now look like burnt matchsticks… And, days after I took these photos, on my three-day adventure through California, … Continue reading

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Detours: A California adventure… part 18; A detour within a detour, a brush with future disaster, and a blackened landscape…

That is the sun beginning to set over the Pacific Ocean. I was on another detour… the last of this three-day, detour-strewn adventure from Northern California back to San Diego. I was firmly back in Southern California now. Traffic really … Continue reading

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Detours: A California adventure… part 17; Now that’s a bathroom!!!

Uh, no, that isn’t a photo of the actual bathroom… you are getting ahead of yourself… Then what, I hear you asking yourself, is this charming little building we are looking at? It is this place… the Madonna Inn, on … Continue reading

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Sorry, but this is about as wintery as it gets around here…

Yeah, we had actual ice on our car windows not too long ago… welcome to winter, Southern California style!

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And now, a bunch of random photos of the view from the balcony of that fancy hotel my wife and I stayed at… including some really awesome sunsets… even though I’m still not ready to tell you why we stayed there…

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Before I tell you about why we were where we were, I should tell you more about where we were…

The Hotel Del Coronado is famous. It has been in movies… and I will get to that in later posts… and kings, presidents, and Hollywood royalty have all stayed there. You should Google it. Ha… I knew there was something … Continue reading

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