[sigh] You don’t have to be an urban planner, or a designer, or an architect, or have any interest in how built environments improve our lives. You just have to want to go up stairs and GET somewhere. Let’s look…
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Plaza Fail
Posted in San Diego Tagged with: architecture, design, park, plaza, public space, public transportation, urban planning
Down in Front!
Ahh, Christmas. The season of togetherness, giving, warm feelings and…hey, sit down in front. Sit down. Sit down! SIT DOWN! Every year at our preschool we go to see our kids in the Christmas pageant. It has become tradition, as…
Border Crossings, Beers, and Giant Meat Cylinders
Boy are things changing in Mexico! Here in San Diego the craft food and beer scene is heating up and stimulating the foodie culture south of the border in Tijuana. Craft breweries are popping up, stylish high-quality eateries, and places…
Exploring
The longest distance between two points is the path taken by children. This is how boring I am as a parent: I don’t want to fall in the mud. I don’t want to sit on a tree covered with fire…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego, Travel Tagged with: CH, Derek Noakes, expeditions, exploring, kids, number two, parenting
The Drought is Not Over
The drought is not over but we got our first measurable rain in over 6 months. Maybe I think the weather gods are stingy but over 2 days it only ever rained at night so we couldn’t sit inside and…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: drought, ducks, lake, number two, parenting, rain, southern california, weather
Laying In for the Season
I’m a creature molded by my upbringing, my genes, and the long trail of forebears who had a harder life surviving and passing on all they could so I can be alive. One of the vestiges of this pre-programmed history…
T-t-t-t-TRAIN COMING!!!
Hang out with some little kids for a while and you’ll realize how amazing EVERYTHING is. Maybe you have trains or trolleys or streetcars or railcars or funiculars or electric buses or rickshaws in your hometown. But have you ever…
First Camping Trip
There is nothing like sleeping out in the wilderness after a day on foot and dinner by the fire. Child Harbat and I went camping recently and she’s now an official Camper. What is like hiking and camping in the…
Train Coming!!
Right now there’s a lot of excitement in our house about trains coming. Well, most of that excitement is radiating from the shortest resident, The Boy aka Number Two. With his bat-like hearing he can pick up the faintest ring…
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: locomotive, nuclear fusion reactor, number two, parenting, train museum, trains, trolley
What Not to Do At a Railroad Crossing
Here’s a little tidbit about car and train safety: don’t drive onto tracks if you aren’t prepared to get off them when the time (i.e. a giant train) comes along. No, this isn’t a first-person cautionary tale about Uncle F@*k-Up,…
Posted in Events, San Diego Tagged with: barriers, car safety, crash, idiots, traffic engineers, train, trolley
