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

Posted on January 15, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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!!!

Posted on January 14, 2018 by pouringmyartout

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…

Posted on February 20, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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…

Posted on February 9, 2016 by pouringmyartout
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Before I tell you about why we were where we were, I should tell you more about where we were…

Posted on February 8, 2016 by pouringmyartout

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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This is where I was this weekend, in case you were worrying about me…

Posted on February 8, 2016 by pouringmyartout

It is a long story, and I have a ton of photos… So it will take a few days to tell this story… and in the meantime, I am going to be babysitting little Olivia again for the next three days, … Continue reading →

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There’s a feeling I get, when I look to the West…

Posted on November 12, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Of course, that might just be because I live in Southern California… And when I look to the West, there are beautiful, white sand beaches and palm trees and the freakin’ Pacific Ocean…

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Hot food and warm weather…

Posted on December 15, 2014 by pouringmyartout

To be honest, this is one of those posts I do now and then just to annoy all you people who live in a place where you have to dig your car out of the snow every morning… Yes, that … Continue reading →

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There are 7 or 8 large fires burning in San Diego right now…

Posted on May 15, 2014 by pouringmyartout

The first one started yesterday… the rest all popped up today… all over San Diego… all around my house… They all started small… you know… like fires do… But they all spread. A couple of them were put out before they … Continue reading →

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This really might be the end of the world…

Posted on February 28, 2014 by pouringmyartout

People in Southern California are panicking… because there is water falling out of the sky. They are expressing their terror by driving like idiots and crashing into each other and other things. I am from Northern California originally, and I … Continue reading →

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