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Category Archives: Writing: Travel: USA
Hiking Los Angeles: Fish Canyon, With that New Car Smell
Fish Canyon is open, and the waterfalls are flowing. I want to write that first line in all BOLD CAPS. Because that hasn’t been said in 30 years. Fish Canyon, in the San Gabriel Mountains above … Continue reading
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Hiking Los Angeles: Abandoned Dawn Mine
There are three ways to hike to the abandoned Dawn Mine above Altadena: the first is closed, the second is over-grown, but the third, in a metaphorical bear sense, is just right. John W. Robinson, in his book … Continue reading
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Tagged dawn mine, Hike, Hiking Los Angeles, Los Angeles, San Gabriel Mountains, Travel, USA
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Fort Irwin’s Painted Rocks
They went and put the military base in the middle of nowhere, hidden between the low rocky hills and the wide open dry lake beds of the Southern California deserts, probably because they wanted to blow things up in … Continue reading
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Tagged desert, Fort Irwin, insignia, military, painted rocks, Photography, Travel, Writing
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Touring Los Angeles: The Crumbling Hermon Car Wall
After randomly hearing about a wall built with car parts in Los Angeles, it took me five months to find Hermon’s Car Wall, and, well, it was partly worth it. After five months of (very intermittent) searching, there … Continue reading
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Tagged folk art, Hermon Wall, Photography, Touring Los Angeles, Travel
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Los Angeles Event: Touring the Old Theatre District
Touring the Historic Los Angeles Theatre District “There’s one million square feet of unused space in downtown Los Angeles,†said Larry, our tour guide, as we walked up and down Broadway, the old heart of the theatre district. … Continue reading
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Tagged Event, Los Angeles Event, Photography, Theatre District, Writing
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Eleven Photographs: Hood Ornaments at the Nethercutt Museum
I thought that the Peterson was the only Los Angeles automotive museum. I was wrong. Hidden away in the San Fernando Valley, in a nondescript building, in a nondescript neighborhood, sits a free museum with some of the most beautiful … Continue reading
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Cabrillo National Monument; San Diego, California
The Cabrillo National Monument is beautiful, but the name is deceiving. It’s considered a monument because there is a statue of Cabrillo here, but this area should really be called The Cabrillo State Park, or The Cabrillo Ecological Reserve. … Continue reading
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San Diego’s Chicano Park: History in Murals and Concrete
I went to San Diego’s Chicano Park to see the beautiful murals. What I found is a park that is beautiful, but not in the way parks are traditionally beautiful. Its beauty is not in huge expanses of rolling … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicano Park, Hispanic, history, mural, San Diego, Travel, Writing
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Walking with Alligators Outside New Orleans [Part 2]
Southern Drawl It seems that warm water is the defining characteristic of New Orleans. Water in the swamps, water in the Mississippi river, water flooding houses, water falling from the sky in bucket loads, and water thickening the air … Continue reading
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Walking With Alligators Outside New Orleans [Part 1]
One afternoon while sitting in a bar in the French Quarter -nursing an Abita Amber- I over-heard a snippet of a conversation that went like this: “…and you can walk through the swamps with the alligators.†Which was … Continue reading
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On The Road to Poppies: Lancaster, California [Part 2]
After we found the cherry trees, I had a better understanding of how the map worked, so we decided to backtrack to the Polaroid house. “So the house was built by Mr. Polaroid?” “Yea Mr. Polaroid, the guy who … Continue reading
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Tagged Hiking Los Angeles, Los Angeles, poppies, Touring Los Angeles, Travel, Writing
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On The Road to Poppies: Lancaster, California [Part 1]
I woke up Saturday morning with itchy feet. I wanted to get out and do something, something outside, in the sun with life around and about. But I was supposed to sit in front of my computer and edit … Continue reading
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Tagged Hiking Los Angeles, Los Angeles, poppies, Touring Los Angeles, Travel, Writing
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