Category: San Diego Living

  • Goosebumps

    Goosebumps

    In August we will have lived in San Diego for eight years, making it the longest place Kristen and I will have lived in our adult lives. (Chicago, 1994 – 2002; Romeo, 2003 – 2008) While we’ve fallen in love with and great enjoyed everywhere we’ve lived… there’s just something special about San Diego. While…

  • Kayaking, a New Obsession

    Kayaking, a New Obsession

    I don’t even know how to describe this obsession. Which is, I suppose, the definition of an obsession. As the summer began I had a tiny spark of a thought that I needed to find something fun to do that’d get me outside more. I have a personal philosophy of recreation but I had just…

  • Paddling to La Jolla Caves

    Paddling to La Jolla Caves

    Kristen, Jackson, and I had a great time paddling out to the La Jolla Caves. Conveniently missing from these photos is proof that I got dumped in the waves twice and Kristen & Jackson got dumped once. We’re all OK, just a great time getting wet and exploring our town!

  • Two San Diego State Universities: The Power of Winning

    Two San Diego State Universities: The Power of Winning

    I’m new to State. I moved into the College Area in 2008 and quickly adopted them. I’m not an alumni. I didn’t grow up in San Diego. They are just the school that’s near my house and I enjoy going to football and basketball games.

  • San Diego via Timelapse

    Oh baby, this captures so much of what makes San Diego a beautiful place to live. I can’t wait for my little rail kit rail & dolly kit to arrive so I can start learning how to shoot these kinds of time-lapse shots.

  • Transportation matters

    Since moving to San Diego in 2008 I’ve taken a lot of public transportation. In fact, part of choosing where we live was proximity to public transportation. I can catch the bus about a quarter mile from our house and the trolley is about 1.2 miles away. With a bike that means I’m 5 to 15…

  • Paul’s Fishing Trip

    Kristen and I decided that we’d give each of the big kids an experience as part of their Christmas. So Megan is going whale watching with mom and I took Paul fishing out on the open ocean. After a lot of research online I booked our day on the Daily Double out of Point Loma…

  • Passing on a love of sports

    My dad took me to lots of games at Notre Dame. Later in middle and high school it became more about football than the other sports. But I have lots of fond memories of spending time with my dad at Notre Dame basketball, hockey, and football games. I even remember a couple baseball and soccer…

  • San Diego blackout live blog

    4:00ish – they power went out, first we thought it was just a breaker. Ten a neighbor banged on our door. 4:05 – saw on twitter lots of activity. Hearing it’s out all over San Diego. Crazy! 4:08 – trolleys are down, people are leaving work. Beer thirty came early! Thankful I didn’t go back…

  • Mexico isn’t Scary

    I spent yesterday with some folks from Amor Ministries in Tijuana. The point of our trip was to visit some recent Amor houses built in a colonia to create a video inviting NYWC participants to spend a day of convention there building a house. The houses we saw were anywhere from 3 days old to 10…