Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 1:28 PM -0700 27/6/2000, Dennis wrote: >San Diego, lots of great photo ops. Many already mentioned. The zoo is a >must. > >Not yet mentioned I think it drive out to Point Loma late in the day. Not yet mentioned is my arriving in San Diego and trying to sleep at the end of a pier because my accommodation had closed for the night after the Amtrak from San Francisco went through multiple delays. I arranged for another place to stay, but the cab never showed up. I considered calling Harrison, but thought better of it (2-3 AM)." Hey Harrison! I know we've never met, but do you want to come in from La Jolla (sp?) and grab me, i'm somewhere in the gaslight/lamp district?" I'm really sorry i never got to meet San Diego luggers on that trip, but i was tied to the Marriott for most of it. Still i got to meet an interesting array of homeless folks who kept me company for a while that night. One dude had just escaped a rehab programme. Nice guy too. I ended up semi-sleeping in a big planter box at the end of the wharf. The cops cruised/patrolled past, and thank god they didn't see me, especially after i saw one of the cops beating on a very old, and very defenseless homeless guy the next night. I met some nice people there, but I thought San Diego was a really paranoid city. I stopped outside a bank that had an enormous lawn, and pulled my pack off to get something out or shift it around and this rent-a-cop came running up to me to tell me to move on. I stopped for literally 2 seconds before he ran up. I'm the least scary person you'll see in your life. Someone mentioned Tijuana? I went for half a day, which was almost my total time away from my accommodation and the Marriott. My advice is to go! Go to Tijuana, even if it's just for the chaos of seeing it. Cops hanging out and looking tough, tourists en masse, everything and anything for sale, cheap and nasty tourist gifts, and serious looking customs folks on the way back through. It's about $2 on one of the trolley cars, and the whole environment is a real eye opener. I ended up talking to some cool locals on the trip back in to San Diego, which was almost worth it alone. On second thoughts, just crossing the 'Concrete Curtain' was worth it. Harrison, next time, could i please come and stay with you! Please change my mind about San Diego! Take care, Gary - -- "The difficulty now is that unexceptional adults believe the loss of youthful dreaming is itself "growing up," as though adulthood were the passive conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during adolescence." OO The Uses of Disorder [_]<| Personal Identity and City Life -- Richard Sennett /|\ Gary Elshaw Post-Grad Film Student Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com/ http://elshaw.tripod.com/photointro.html