Oh, London … I love you best.
This odd futuristic (as in 2001: A Space Odyssey futuristic) tunnel is (if memory serves me right) under St. Pancras station and leads to another Underground stop. I loved the lights and look of it, hence this photo. London is once again on my Fall travel list, providing Boris Johnson doesn’t obliterate the country from the face of the earth come October 31.
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I’m back after a short hiatus … did you miss me?
We had a run of cloudy, cool, breezy days up until about the end of June this year … and since then it’s been pretty much all-sun, all the time (except in the mornings). That photo above is my stomping ground, usually filled with bikes, walks, and those annoying pedal cars that people rent and yell and scream in as they ride around like a bunch of lunatics. The good news is the summer tourist season is over with this week’s last hurrah of Labor Day. When you’re a kid, the summer stretches out almost infinitely, from last day of school to first day of school; as an adult, it breezes by far too quickly. Luckily, I live in the land of almost-perpetual summer.
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I call this the calm after the storm. I took this photo last summer at a restaurant next to (and behind) the San Diego Convention Center on a peaceful Sunday evening AFTER Comic-Con had ended and I was having a lovely dinner with two lovely friends. It was the end of the busiest time of the year for me (and all my hardworking co-workers) and it was time to celebrate, in my usual quiet and reserved way. I look forward to doing this again this year, in just a week or so. Wish me luck!
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Sonic Bloom at Seattle Center in … you guessed it … Seattle, WA. I just spent a very pleasant weekend there just a few weeks ago and took a similar (if not as good) photo, because I’m a creature of habit, and let’s face it … these things are very impressive. I love Seattle … I go there every year, so expect more photos from this great Northwestern town. And if you want to see my Seattle photos from my latest trip, make with the click right here:
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The mothership is calling me back. Like Powell’s in Portland, OR, The Strand Bookstore in New York City exerts a powerful influence on me, like the moon locked in orbit over the Earth. I missed going to NYC last year, and it’s looming on my fall trip horizon, just in time for the thick of book-release season. Hopefully, I won’t need an umbrella.
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I miss Balboa Park. Oh, it didn’t go anywhere … I did. I moved across the bay almost two years ago and stopped walking almost every weekend through my old stomping ground. Yes, I could climb on the horse (ferry) and do it again, but walking over on Coronado is soooo much easier (no hills!). But I’ll make it back someday, up 4th Avenue, across the Quince St. and Spruce St. bridges, wrap around to Upas St. and into Balboa Park and down Park Blvd. to Broadway and the ferry boat home. Sure I will. Someday.
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I call this photo “Peek-a-boo,” since it reveals a different look at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. This is my favorite part of the city, the Southbank (or Bankside) and this particular view is from near the OXO Tower building, a repurposed factory that used to manufacture meat stock cubes for cooking (it was originally built to be a power station for the Royal Mail Post Office). Now it contains shops and offices and restaurants and is part of a walk along the south side of the Thames that I dearly love.
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