San Francisco: The Beautiful

My plan with posting about our San Francisco trip was to seperate each part of the trip. Napa, Sailing, San Fran, and Big Sur having their own little spotlight. Well I tossed that idea in the trash ocne I started going through all the photos. I have so many favorites in this post that I couldn't keep them to myself any longer!

Not much to write in this post. I believe the photos just speak for themselves for how beautiful this part of the country is.

I'll have another post up on Tuesday for Alcatraz and some misc shots that will finish up our San Fran trip.

San Francisco: The Beginning

Laura and I took a six-day road trip up to San Fran & Big Sur last week. We got back to San Diego on Monday night and wished we could go do it all over again. Every part of San Francisco was amazing. From the architecture, to the landscape, to the food, to the history, to the culture, and back to the food; San Fran gave us everything we thought it would and more. 

Over the course of six-days we went to Napa for wine tasting, a Giants-Phillies game, SAILING, go-carting through the city streets, saw every touristy landmark/attraction you can think of, visited Hearst castle, and camped in Big Sur a few nights to finish the trip out.

When I'm done posting up photos I expect a lot flights booked to this wonderful city to see it for yourselves, if not to just visit our friend Alicia! You won't regret it! It's been pretty tough for me to figure out where to even begin my blog posts because there's just so much I want to put up on here at one time! I figured I would just start with a quick overview of San Francisco itself.

In this post you will see the Golden Gate Bridge, the Painted Ladies, Fisherman's Wharf, AT&T Park covered with birds after a game, Alcatraz, Chinatown, Full House, and some other photos taken while walking around the city.

Enjoy!

La Jolla..... Again!

As you can tell from all my posts, I love La Jolla. I was just telling a good friend of mine how La Jolla is such an extraordinary little place. In this small stretch of coastline, it's maybe a mile, you have caves, cliffs, coral, sandy beaches, alien-like rocks, and so much wildlife that it's truly astonishing how so much can fit into this tiny area!

La Jolla is also home to the nations highest home prices for the past three years, averaging just over $2 million. Another interesting fact about La Jolla is that from 1920 into the 1970's you were only allowed to purchase property if you were of "pure" European descent... not including Jews. That changed though when UCSD was built and residents thought that "you can't have a university without Jewish professors." The antisemitism has of course disappeared and there's a thriving Jewish community in La Jolla now. Thank you Wikipedia for that one.

Here's a few more photos from this past Sunday. 

I have five friends visiting this week so it's more than likely that I won't have a post up until next week. Comic-con is this week! Let's say that my next post will probably include a fair share of cosplay.