One of the things I love about California is that you can grow pretty much anything here. I don’t own a patch of dirt, but I’ve got a patio with potted fig, mandarin, lemon, and avocado trees. The yield isn’t spectacular, but I still love it. In fact, if I had my way, we wouldn’t …
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Amtrak to LAX
Anna and I are leaving out of LAX this Friday (actually 1am Saturday) for SE Asia. We usually take Amtrak up the coast (3 hours) to Union Station in downtown LA. From there we had to take three different metro trains to get to the shuttle that takes us to LAX. This is time consuming, …
CA votes
Well, San Diego and the rest of CA has voted. They didn’t vote yes on the bad ones, but the didn’t vote yes on the good ones (79, 80) either. San Diego was a bit disappointing, as we were hoping for Frye and Remy. Hopefully the new mayor and district 8 candidate will serve us …
Dia de los Muertos
(All photos for this entry are posted here) (The following is information I’ve picked up from various sources, so feel free to set me straight) Dia de los Muertos is one of the more famous and widely practiced Mexican holidays. This ritual remembrance and celebration of the dead is said to be 3,000 years old, …
Sequoias
(All photos for this entry are posted here) Sept 5, 2005 – From Reno we hit Sacramento, then Anna and I booked it down the 99 to get to Kings Highway and Sequoia National Park. We stopped along the way in Stockton for some caffeine and popped into Fresno to check out the underground gardens, …