First point – this garden is in San Diego County, not San Diego itself. Little bit up the coast actually. In case you were planning a quick jaunt across town from your hotel room… Second, this is where our membership at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden really pays off. We get […]
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The San Diego Zoo really is amazing. I’d always known it was one of the best zoos in the country, and it lived up to the hype. (Really, the only thing I was a little meh about was the gondolas – the Sky Train, or something like that, for a proper name
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So my sister got married on the third. Which meant we got to go out to CA for the event. (I was a bridesmaid.) The family part of the trip is covered on Facebook, and elsewhere, because this is not a family oriented sort of blog, but the BF and I did
So, work sent me to Disney this past week, and because I am who I am, I spent one of my free afternoons wandering around Epcot, taking pictures of the Garden Festival topiaries. Yep, I really am that predictable.
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Let’s face it, my camera couldn’t possibly do justice to these beauties, but it doesn’t mean I sure didn’t try! Henry Cowell is quite close to Santa Cruz (we’d actually intended to do it the same day as Wilder Ranch, but ran out of daylight when we were side tracked by downtown). It has a
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The day after Christmas, we decided to get some Pacific Ocean into the mix. Our original plan had been Ano Nuevo State Park, which has a colony of elephant seals. Because it’s breeding season, you have to go on a guided tour, and because we weren’t sure of the weather, by the time we could
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I really enjoyed San Francisco, even though we didn’t get to do as much of it as we could have hoped, and even if the traffic getting out of there was probably worse than Boston. Because we started out the morning at Tartine, we wondered around the Mission District, which was architecturally really cool, and
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