2 Things @ Once

Heading Home ... Or Maybe to Alaska

On the Point

Happy Thanksgiving!

Couldn't let the day go by without wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving! Here on the west coast, we're just about to get down to the serious business of eating. I hope you day was blessed with food, family and friends that you love. Cheers!

On Our Way to Pick Up the Pies

Halcyon Tea

Halcyon Tea is one of the few places we wanted to get to while out here on our brief visit. My step brother is part owner of the shop so we really wanted to see the brand new tea shop. It's a cozy, pleasant atmosphere; just what you'd want in a neighborhood storefront. After a lot of sniffing (such amazing scents) and sampling, I purchased some orange spice and peppermint tea to launch me into winter.

Totally Worth It

Waiting in Line at Quatros Milpas

The foodie fiesta continues with another ritual, waiting nearly an hour for tacos and chorizo con juevos.

Mmmm Yum, It's Good To Be Back in San Diego

Every trip home to San Diego begins with fish tacos (grilled swordfish!) from Point Loma Sea Foods.

Geese Rest Stop

NaBloPoMo, Day 23

Lately, I've noticed a lot of geese hanging out in a particular patch of the lake, just bobbing around in the water close to the shore. It's odd to see geese in the water around here. Duck and seagulls, yes. Geese, not so much. They tend to loiter on golf courses and around office park ponds. But these geese bob around in Lake Michigan, (right on the border of Evanston and Chicago, just across Sheridan Road from a graveyard, a popular hangout for geese in the Fall) which makes me think these guys are tourists, passing through on their way south.

I sat for a while on the rocks watching this crowd, a combination of many different flocks; they would all change direction in unison, pointing into the wind. Those closer to the shore had to put more effort into it, as they were continually fighting the surf. Every so often, a group of them would raise off the lake together heading in the southern direction and then bank west, up and over into the graveyard, honking all the while. I was hoping to catch a large group in flight; the best I could do was a small crowd passing by.

Mother Nature Is Sure Making Nice

NaBloPoMo, Day 22

Twenty two days into November and we're still enjoying temperatures in the fifties. Unheard of. It certainly doesn't do much for your productivity when you keep jumping outdoors to enjoy what surely must be the last of the nice weather before we hunker down for the bitter cold of winter. Or so we've been telling ourselves for the last two weeks. Not that I'm complaining. I'm thrilled that I have yet to take out my winter coat.

Temps take a bit of a dip come Thanksgiving with the first chance for snow showers. I'll be in San Diego for the holiday and like anyone from the Midwest who travels anywhere warm and sunny between Nov and May, I'm hoping for a gripping cold spell here while I'm away.