I told myself last year that I didn’t really want to run the Long Beach Half Marathon again, but changed my mind and decided to go for the Beach Cities Challenge one last time before I go after my Rock N Roll Heavy Metal Challenge in 2020. This is the third year I have run this course and it was still most enjoyable. Here are a few photos from this race. In the...
A Road Trip South – USA Pacific Coast – 2019 I’ve done part of the West Coast drive of the USA, typically between San Francisco and San Diego, however, I have longed to go as far as Washington and back. My guess is that there is some really good stuff to experience in Oregon too. Since this post has too much to talk about I’ll let my YouTube...
Greetings from Sugar Pine Point State Park on the California side of Lake Tahoe. Dee and I are on our way to the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington to see the Above and Beyond Group Therapy Weekender camping/music event. From Southern California, this is about 19 hours of driving. In order to break up the trip into more manageable chunks, we are stopping at a few...
For about the last 10 years I have been trying to get tickets to one of the most famous conventions in the world. I’ve been to BlizzCon. I’ve been to QuakeCon too. I’ve even enjoyed Anime Los Angeles. But this event has always sold out and made getting tickets super difficult. Now I only managed to get a Thursday and Sunday ticket before they all...
Waking up early, we packed up our camp and headed to Temecula for some breakfast. Before heading down to Lake Elsinore we enjoyed one more view of the mountains. I didn’t really have much of a plan for the day. I figured we would pay a visit to Palomar mountain and the 200ft observatory there and then figure out the next step from that point. The initial view...
This year I kind of skipped out on the 4th of July. I’d already gotten my firework fix back in may at EDC. Something I have been wanting to do more frequently is to go Car Camping. It is a halfway point between backpacking and full-on RV camping. I still prefer to camp in a tent or hammock but I love the convenience of having a car to carry heavier gear and a...
The girlfriend had some expiring tickets from her previous career. We reached out to a few friends and made a day of enjoying the parks. No, we did not get to go to Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, but we went everywhere else. We started with California Adventure because there was a special this month. The ride named “Soarin'” was reverted to a California...
I’ve been told the original Rock and Roll race was started in San Diego. Last September I purchased a spot for this year’s event. Not sure why I didn’t look at my calendar and realize a week earlier I would be doing the Laguna Hills event. We started at Balboa Park. It was cloudy for most of the race and I enjoyed the resulting temperature. The...
Last year I heard about a challenge for Orange County races and hoped to go for it this year. One of the required races is this annual beauty in Laguna Hills. One thing I should have realized from the name of the city is that this Half Marathon would include a bunch of hills. The race started at the old mall near “the 5” (Californian Jargon for Interstate...
I’ve been wanting to run a race in SD for a few years so last year as I was planning out my 2019 I found this little gem. At 45$ it was one of the more affordable options. It also happened on a Saturday so it was much easier to schedule. At the start, I enjoyed a nice sunrise, but it was really cold outside. The course followed the outline of Mission Bay and...