So ever since I’ve been out here I’ve heard rumors of this place called Mt. Palomar. Supposedly it’s a great place to ride your motorcycle; so great in fact that on the weekends there are frequently groups of 50-100 motorcyclists riding up and down the mountain for hours at a time. Mt Palomar is kind…
Author: Phil
Yellow beer is for wussies?
Mr John Fairall III graced us with his presence last weekend. Good times indeed. Too bad he doesn’t live closer so we could kick it more often. So apparently you do NOT drink yellow beer at The Tap Room in PB. I wonder if the bartender just grabbed any old glass behind the bar or…
Every night is date night
Just another lovely San Diego evening. We’re more than a bit spoiled with the weather here. It’s “unbearably hot” when it’s 85 out and it’s “unbearably cold” when it’s 72. This weather lends itself to many-o-enjoyable nights spent dining out on our patio. Add to that the fact that I haven’t seen my beloved grill…
Memorial Day with Pickles
Double Peak and the Del Mar Dog Beach were the highlights of my weekend here in San Diego. Lucy was invited to both events as well. Her first trip to the dog beach was a success to say the least. Until today, her only water experience was me throwing her in the pool at the…
It’s not big but Lucy doesn’t mind…
So it’s been a few weeks and we’re still living in the wonderful Extended Stay in Oceanside. I checked into my new squadron, HMLA/T-303, a few weeks ago and it’s been busy, busy, busy ever since. They handed me a few thousand pages of user manuals for the new UH-1Y helicopter and I started to…
Long hike, short drive
Did both today and they took the same amount of time. We woke up, ate breakfast, and headed back into the National Park. Lucy was left at the Grand Canyon kennels and we headed off to the Bright Angel trail. 6 miles round trip from 6,700 ft at the rim to 4,500 ft at the…
Snow in Mexico!?
Well I don’t know if there was any snow in Mexico but New Mexico had some waiting for us when we woke up. Haven’t had to brush snow off our cars in quite some time… We got an early start on the day and arrived at the Grand Canyon around 4pm. It was a rough…
1475 down, 1125 to go
So we arrived in Santa Fe around 1ish today. We had plenty of time to explore this little sleepy town and kinda liked it. It was much smaller than we had thought (only 70,000 or so people live here) but there was a nice little downtown area full of shops and local street vendors. Tomorrow…
Hello “R-Kansas”
Who knows why Arkansas isn’t pronounced “R-Kansas” but it isn’t. Two things we do know is that a) the Clinton Presidential Library should stay open past 5pm (we got there around 5:07 and missed it) and b) the River Market area of Little Rock is pretty neat. There seems to be a lot of fun…
Goodbye Pensacola
Movers came on Tuesday and the whole house was packed in about 8 hours; 78 boxes in all! On Wednesday the movers returned and packed the entire house (including the 78 boxes) onto a semi truck. We scrubbed and cleaned all night and hit the road Thursday. Meredith and I have quite the road-trip planned. …