[Leica] Re: San Diego

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

Do you mean Donal Philby?? Donal lives in SD.

I think Harrison lives in Tennessee.

Jim

At 12:02 PM 6/28/00 +1200, Gary Elshaw wrote:
>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
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