First Post 2012 – California Dreamin’
Well, here we are in sunny San Diego. It took four days to get down here, including one spent with friends in Las Vegas. Monida was a little snowy but passable. Malad Summit was closed, so we had to camp at a gas station. Made it to Vegas the net day.
SoCal is nuts. People everywhere. We’re camped in the I-5 Wilderness Corridor – that is, the 200 yds between I-5 and the railroad. The Sounds of Silence it ain’t. I looked in the rearview mirror today and there was nobody right on my bumper. I thought the world must have ended. It’s like stirring up an anthill.
The photography has been pretty good. La Jolla has pelicans, sea lions and seals all within about 500 yds, so I’ve done that every day. Landscapes are harder to find. We went to Torrey Pines tonight and that has some potential (we held off due to the golf tournament over the weekend)so we’re going to extend a couple days to try and get a good sunset. After that it’s over to Arizona, probably for most of February.
February 2, 2012 at 7:32 pm
Those pictures of pelicans with their open mouths skyward are stunning. I never thought of pelicans that way before! I hope the Cramper is doing OK. What do you mean So Cal is crowded? It’s a quiet suburb compared to … Beijing! Travel well!
February 5, 2012 at 5:42 pm
So. Cal is a great place to be from (40′s and early 50′s) but I stay away now. Good work on the breeding pelicans…most people don’t associate them with all that color.
Hope for spring rains so there’s some scenery in AZ, right now it’s pretty scary here…way behind the normal rainfall. If you need any AZ contacts I have several retired Game and Fish friends there.