Old Town San Diego

[gstark]

Just north of the downtown area in San Diego is the historic Old Town. Somewhat more touristy than I remember, here are a few of the images I shot.

The synagogue is San Diego's oldest, and dates back to 1889.

The Volvo, illegally parked in the middle of the historic village, is for Matt.

[Raydar]

Great shots mate!!!!

Love that old architecture!!!!!!

Cheers
Ray

[gstark]

Ray,

Old San Diego is truly a great place to visit. Yes, there's the old buildings, lovingly restored, and the tourist stuff.

But lots of great Mexican cuisine there too. My lunch consisted of a sub-$10 plate of Nachos, that was so big half of it accompanied me back to the hotel for dinner. Lot's of jalapenos too; nice and spicy. Not like here.

And the garden areas have a lot of Mexican influence, so there are some great colours as well. Remember that you're just a few miles north of the border here.

Given that the hotel included a free continental breakkie, that can make for very cheep travelling if you want it.

[Raydar]

Great stuff mate

My intentions are to over the sates one time in the summer season & spend a bit of time out on the plains.
I would love to see one of them funnel things that have real strong winds

Cheers
Ray

[the foto fanatic]

Looks like a terrific place to visit, Gary.
I was reading that SoCal was particularly wet this year. Did it inconvenience you a lot in the photography dept?
How did you keep that Nikon glass dry?

[gstark]

Trevor,

Looks like a terrific place to visit, Gary.
I was reading that SoCal was particularly wet this year. Did it inconvenience you a lot in the photography dept?
How did you keep that Nikon glass dry?

It was quite wet, and that caused some issues. Sunsets were difficult to photograph; the colours simply didn't materialise. Travelling was slightly hampered for me - more on that in a moment - but keeping stuff drya didn't present a major issue.

The weather was ... well, suffice to say there was lots of weather right through the whole of California over the last two weeks.

On my first day I spoke with a friend who lives in Half Moon Bay. That's just a little south of San Francisco. When I called her she was in the process of rescuing a severely soaked rug from her garage.

Lake Tahoe recieved over seven feet of snow in the day or two prior to New Year's Eve - I'm sure Andy in Sacremento would have felt a fair bit pain from that storm - and for much of last week, I5, the major highway that runs a north-south line through the centre of California, and connects Los Angeles with Sacremento (the state capital) was closed through The Grapevine due to snow. It finally reopened on Friday last.

On the same day I spoke with another friend in Dallas who told me it snowed in Dallas the day prior to Christmas. Dallas normally gets a few days of snow each year - 2 - 4 would be typical. I made the comment to Jon that he finally got a white Christmas in Dallas (before Dallas he'd lived in Florida) and his observation was that by the next day the snbow had turned to a dirty grey slush.

In the meantime, friend on the east coast - Raleigh-Durham, for instance -were telling me that they were seeing fine weather and temperatures of around 67F on NYE.