Tag: pictures
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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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Painted Rock Petroglyphs
This will be a short post. On the way back from Casa Grande we made a short detour to a places called Painted Rock Petroglyphs, in the Painted Rock mountains. The glyphs are from a wide age range, some ancient, some from a few hundred years ago and some from the 19th century. They are on…
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Well, I SAID I wanted to see the Sonoran Desert.
So here’s the thing. I’ve been trying to go to as many national parks (or historic sites, as the case may be) this year as possible. I’m excited about my passport stampbook (as I’ve previously posted) and especially since we now live in the half of the country with all of the huge natural areas,…
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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…
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Driving to Arizona: No map? No problem! Unless you get detoured onto a historic highway…
In the age of the GPS, I haven’t bothered in quite a while to buy a roadmap. I haven’t needed one in a long time, and even when I’ve lost GPS signal I have been either close enough to home not to need it, or in a relatively small place where it is difficult to…
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Arizona Renaissance Festival Weekend, aka roadtrip through desert
Two weekends ago, J and I took a roadtrip to Arizona to go to the renaissance festival that’s just outside of Phoenix. This one is the sister festival to the Carolina one (owned by the same company) and since J hasn’t been in town for one in a while, we decided to do the six…
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Seals and Sea Lions and Pelicans, oh my!
At the end of February, J and I went to the northern part of San Diego (to La Jolla) in search of the famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) seals. It wasn’t exactly hard to find them. La Jolla has a lot to offer in the way of shopping and dining, and beautiful…
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Snowy Day and Hot Apple Pies in Julian, CA
A couple of days after J got back from deployment (read: after the jetlag was basically over), we decided to start exploring beyond our neighborhood. For our first foray, we chose the quaint town of Julian. Julian is up in the mountains, and was originally a gold mining town (as so many places were), but…
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Catching up on February, plus WHALE BABY.
I’m currently uploading a ton of photos, first to an album of random things from February that I never got around to uploading. The last month has been hectic, between finishing the unpacking process, J coming home from deployment, and then heading out to explore southern California (and Arizona!) together. J’s mom visited in mid-February…
Joanna Volavka 