Tag: history
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April Wanderings and Updates
Oh hey! WordPress just told me it’s my 7th anniversary with this blog. Huzzah for that! Things have been pretty hectic here the last couple of months. We were supposed to move into a new place at the start of May but for various reasons which aren’t terribly interesting the timetable got accelerated… and we […]
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BEDA Day 2: California Friday
Day TWO! Friday is going to be California Friday this month where I tell you about something local that I’ve done recently. When my folks were here last month, my dad and I visited Old Town. I’ve been there a few times (my tea shop is there), but I always enjoy it, and usually […]
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Pioneertown, California: a little real and a little surreal
The day after camping at the trailer palace, J and I (and our friends who went with us) decided to drive to Pioneertown. Pioneertown is a little place in the middle of almost nowhere that has a restaurant, a post office, a motel, and some buildings that are all straight out of an Old West […]
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A visit to San Juan Capistrano Mission
After visiting Old Town San Diego, J and I had an interest in visiting some of California’s famous missions. There were twenty-one founded during Spanish colonization, and many of them are still standing (in some form or another) as they are all less than 200 years old. The first we decided to visit was San […]
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Dire Wolves and Saber Cats! (La Brea Tar Pits)
Ever since I was old enough to understand what they were, I’ve been fascinated by prehistoric animals. When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a piano-playing-astronaut who was a paleontologist when I wasn’t in outer space. Seriously. (And what happened with that? You’d think I’d have gone all sciencey, but instead I went all artsy. […]
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Exploring historic Old Town San Diego
Last week, J and I took a sunny afternoon to explore Old Town San Diego, the original town site. It is just beneath the site of the Spanish mission, and has been refurbished to look much as it did 150 years ago. We had been there several times for dinner (and they have some pretty […]
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Casa Grande Ruins: an unexpected very neat thing
In my quest to see national parks (and collect passport stamps from them!), I’ve made it a habit to check for any that are an easy drive from a place I might already be. In this case, J and I were in Casa Grande, Arizona, for the renaissance festival, and we kept seeing signs that […]
Joanna Volavka 