Brandi and I are back from the left coast.
San Diego is a very beautiful city with incredible weather and surprisingly nice people, and the views weren’t that bad either.
Santa Fe Train station 3 blocks from the coast, in the background are two of the dozens of high rise condos”
Mountains in the distance as seen from San Diego Harbour
Brandi and I enjoyed the break, but we throughly missed our do… Even more so once we got on the plane from Atlanta to Birmingham. Seated directly in front of us was a 4 month old and her mother. The timing couldn’t have been any better. Absence makes the heart grow fonder (and I didn’t think that was possible)…
For more pics and a brief what-we-did, click more…
We found a rather popular Oktoberfest in La Mesa and spent a few hours there drinking Beck’s and eating Brats…
We spent a lot of time (and very little shame) pumping breast milk wherever we went. I think Brandi was enjoying the pumping a little too much in this pic
A picture of the USS Thach from the back of the boat that we took a harbour cruise on
The USS Midway, now a museum.
An old San Diego Gas and Electric Company power generation building as seen two nights before this started:
With one of the main roads through downtown San Diego closed (Broadway) , what had to be close to 100 cement trucks continuously dumped cement to be pumped up and into the building for the foundation of “San Diego’s tallest residential tower”, the Electra
More pics of the construction:
Lifting a piece of a cement pumping truck out of the center of the building (the top of one of the trucks can be seen in the foreground)
A worker operating a remote control unit to pull one of the booms out through a window in the shell of the building.
Live webcam looking down into the building.
There was a guy there who worked for the construction company who was throughly documenting everything going on. He told me that what they were doing had never been done before. I’m assuming he meant the building of such a large structure inside of the shell of an older (historic in this case) building. It was quite a site to see…
Another picture of the shell the night before the invasion of the cement trucks
Another view of the Santa Fe train station with a portion of our bus stop in the foreground
October 11th, 2005 at 12:17 pm
Looks like a good time. I’ve only made it as far west as Telluride, CO. Well, I did go through LA when flying to New Zealand, but that doesn’t count.
I’m missing my child too. We get him back on Friday. He’s been gone 3 weeks!
I bet you’re glad you didn’t go to the UAB game. I was dog cussing my computer screen when the gametracker revealed the bad news. My wife (as usual) thought I had lost my mind for good.
October 11th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
The furthest west I had been before this was Denver
The UAB game? Ugh, I don’t even want to think about it….
It put a damper on my entire evening… But then I got in the hot tub 
I too was watching it on my laptop from the lobby of the hotel.
The Gametracker had not updated in a few mins and it still said 3 seconds to go, w/ the ball on the 31…. Then Jason called me