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San Diego

In early 2004, I spent a weekend in the city of my youth, San Diego. It has changed a lot, and I've been away a long time, so I was able to see it as a tourist sees it.
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Going Up The San Diego Convention Center has an interesting elevator that moves diagonally, but it is far more fun to take the stairs. There are a lot of stairs
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Going Up The San Diego Convention Center has an interesting elevator that moves diagonally, but it is far more fun to take the stairs. There are a lot of stairs

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  • Going Up The San Diego Convention Center has an interesting elevator that moves diagonally, but it is far more fun to take the stairs. There are a lot of stairs
  • Emerald Cluster One of the more distinctive buildings in San Diego\'s skyline
  • Cafe Bassam A shop in downtown San Diego that is quite popular with some of my siblings
  • Dedication This seems like a \"Successories\" poster, in which our hero faces an enormous obstacles and simply charges on, not heeding the pain sure to result. I just thought, dang, my thighs sure would ache.These stairs are along the boardwalk, between the San Diego Convention Center and Seaport Village
  • Inadequacy There is nothing wrong with the little boat -- unless you compare it to the big boats
  • California Cruisin\' Walking through downtown San Diego one afternoon, I spotted this car and snapped a single pic. I now wish I had snapped more, even stopped and asked for permssion, since you can barely see one of the most interesting features of this car -- the \"propellors\" on the back of the car
  • Southwest Tracks It\'s the color scheme
  • Sydney\'s Opera House, Reimagined When I lived in San Diego, many years ago, this area was called \"Golden Hall,\" but I think it is called something else now. Still, in downtown San Diego, in the plaza behind City Hall, there is this beautiful fountain
  • Stairway To Insanity It might take a while with a photograph, but I\'m convinced that anyone who walks down these stairs in real life -- near the convention center in San Diego, CA -- is sure to develop a headache.The stairs themselves slant, so one is torn between walking straight (and running into the rail), or following the rail (and crab-walking).They\'re \"crazy stairs\"
  • Except Hotel It is <i>possible</i> that there was another sign above this one which caused this one to make sense, but I prefer to think that the pole ended just out of frame
  • Lavender Courtyard Having grown up in San Diego, I\'m sure I once knew what these trees were called. I want to say that they\'re jacaranda trees, but all I know for sure is that these were in downtown San Diego, and they\'re beautiful
  • SoCal Sunshine This fountain is in front of Horton Plaza in downtown San Diego
  • One Way Well-weathered in San Diego, a city without much weather, I just can\'t figure it out
  • Trolley Tracks Another shot of trolley tracks from the same alley
  • Next Stop, Art Deco I suppose a trolley system needs an oddly-shaped building
  • Skateboarding Permitted I strongly suspect that the permission for skateboarding is, well, less-than-official. I also want to know how someone is expected to get alcohol into the park during the 12 hours per day when it is permitted if it can\'t be in the parking lot at any time
  • Abandoned Look closely. Doesn\'t it look like a baby has been left next to a garbage can? Yes, that\'s a real baby
  • Do Your Duty It isn\'t enough to simply demand that people clean up after their dogs. The state of California must also provide the tools and instructions, along with each reminder. To be fair, I\'ve seen these around my own city in Texas as well, but they still seem quintessentially Californian
  • Palm Frond The uneven surface of a palm frond in mid-afternoon makes for an interesting interplay of light and shadow, I think
  • Never Forget What an elephant can\'t remember, it can never forget, so a stone elephant should never forget anything
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