Category: San Diego
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Viva Fortuna!
We’ve finally adjusted to west coast time, coffee at 6:30, dayplanning til 7:30, rewiring the electrical circuits by 8:30. Betty has a curious lighting design – a mix of undercounter and decorative fixture halogens, fluorescent industrials and incandescent spots. 18 lights in an 8×14 room. For most people, on and off works. For us, finding…
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West Coast Chillin’
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that we are not on vacation – just full-time livin’ in an RV. Fourteen days into our west coast expedition and we could only count one day of downtime where we weren’t hiking, biking or accumulating some write-worthy experience, and that was the day it rained. Even though it…
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Voy a La Jolla
La Jolla is 90 minutes and 20 miles as the Como flies so it was surprising when Eric said, “Let’s go to La Jolla today.” But, with an ebike everything within about a 25 mile radius is within our reach. From Baker, that may not get you to LA, but it covers all of San…
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Howl Now, Brown Cowles
With seven days left at Admiral Baker and the likelihood that we will not soon return to the Mission Gorge neighborhood, we’ve decided to slay the east side, starting with a 4.3 mile hike to the 1,593 foot highest point in San Diego, with views from Mexico to Orange County. Eric mapped this entirely uphill…
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Biking Balboa
Jeff stopped by this morning and dropped off the dimmer switches for Eric’s hot- halogen-under-counter-spots to low-power-bright-LED lighting renovation along with a new gas regulator for the grill. It seems the fixer can always get his fix, even when the address reads “The Pace Arrow in site #9. With the weather shaping up to be…
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Old Town Shuffle
Now that we had a two wheeled perspective on getting around in San Diego, it was time for the two feet and a trolley view. Eric mapped out a walk-ride route to Old Town San Diego State Historic Park with lunch at former Navy mess hall, Liberty Public Market. It was the first no rain…
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San Diego Hill Street Blues
San Diego, geographically, is three Philadelphias with about the same population. Situated between the Pacific Ocean and the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Admiral Baker RV Park sits in Mission Gorge, near the city’s eastern border hills. While we got excited and biked to PB on Tuesday, we thought it would be interesting to check…
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Mission Accomplished
It never rains in California, but girl don’t they warn ya? When it pours, man, it pours. Winter rain has been falling on the southwest for the past week. Even YPG received a 1/4 inch which got the locals talking about the deluge. From pulling bikes on and off the rack to setting up camp…
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Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
We left the world of boondockers and desert dwellers behind today to re-enter Starbucks chain-gang territory in San Diego, California. It is a mere two hundred miles, and a few hours in Betty, but the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Bedroom Communities are on totally different planets. As we departed YPG, we…