Awake: 6:06am Temp 55 sleep 6+03 light rain overnight then sunny overnight @ San Diego, CA.
I called Tommy @ Newell in Oklahoma & set up an appointment for April...
Sallie called for Kathy; she is baby sitting & asked Kathy if she would like to come up & see the latest drawing & further discuss the project. Kathy left @ 10:43 & returned around 12:55pm. The girls are making slow but professional progress.
With good weather again today, K & I motored to Balboa Park just north of downtown to look a little closer at what we have yet to see & do here. We've read that there are (15) museums, performing arts venues, beautiful gardens & the San Diego Zoo, in this park. We went to the Zoo a few yrs ago,& some of the museums are just not on our interest list & others are for a rainy day schedule. Like this Art Museum on a nice & sunny day.
For the time being, we checked out the forthcoming theater schedule & looked into the Museum of Man; San Diego's only anthropological museum. Hmm, that too, would be a rainy day opportunity.
All in all, we decided to walk across the Cabrillo Bridge, built in 1915. From left to right; you're looking at State-Hwy 163 going away from Downtown San Diego, then I-5 South...& then I-5 North.
The bridge we are walking across is an historic pedestrian and automobile bridge providing access between Balboa Park and the Uptown area of San Diego. Initially this bridge was built for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. At that time, it provided the main access across Cabrillo Canyon (formerly known as Pound Canyon, which was used to hold cattle and horses in the late 1800s).
After (2) fires, one in July 1951, & the other in June 2004; both times the aged wooden concrete forms ignited & the Redwood timbers smoldered for several hours. The fire was difficult to reach and extinguish. Firefighters saved the structure by punching holes in the bridge sidewalks with jackhammers to pump in foam and water. The near-disaster spurred a major rehabilitation of the Cabrillo Bridge. A one-year, California Transportation project repaired broken concrete, replaced corroded steel, & finally removed old wood from the original construction.
After crossing the bridge, we walked the concrete trail around the western side of the park, watched a few fellows competing in lawn bowling & then followed a dirt-gravel path that headed down into the canyon. Up ahead, is that a mountain climber? Oh, yea, it's Kathy.
An hr ago, in the city, now in the canyon of the mountains; and we have a fairly good view of the renovated Cabrillo Bridge 1st hand, with some steep up & down hiking included.
Back on the eastern side of Balboa Park, a young & beautiful bride-to-be was preparing for photo shots soon to be taken by her nearby photographer.
Leaving Balboa Park, we were detained for some time by a police escorted protest march. The protesters were mostly college students, many holding up signs for "public money."
My pedometer registered a total of: (2.6) miles.
Dinner: Beef stew, a mixed salad & whole wheat bread.
Evening movie: "D.O.A." with Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell, etc. Gripping, original film noir with O'Brien desperately trying to find who has given him a slow-acting poison...and why. 1950. Best to stay awake; this riveting story is complicated.
Lights out: 12:25am.
I called Tommy @ Newell in Oklahoma & set up an appointment for April...
Sallie called for Kathy; she is baby sitting & asked Kathy if she would like to come up & see the latest drawing & further discuss the project. Kathy left @ 10:43 & returned around 12:55pm. The girls are making slow but professional progress.
With good weather again today, K & I motored to Balboa Park just north of downtown to look a little closer at what we have yet to see & do here. We've read that there are (15) museums, performing arts venues, beautiful gardens & the San Diego Zoo, in this park. We went to the Zoo a few yrs ago,& some of the museums are just not on our interest list & others are for a rainy day schedule. Like this Art Museum on a nice & sunny day.
For the time being, we checked out the forthcoming theater schedule & looked into the Museum of Man; San Diego's only anthropological museum. Hmm, that too, would be a rainy day opportunity.
All in all, we decided to walk across the Cabrillo Bridge, built in 1915. From left to right; you're looking at State-Hwy 163 going away from Downtown San Diego, then I-5 South...& then I-5 North.
The bridge we are walking across is an historic pedestrian and automobile bridge providing access between Balboa Park and the Uptown area of San Diego. Initially this bridge was built for the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. At that time, it provided the main access across Cabrillo Canyon (formerly known as Pound Canyon, which was used to hold cattle and horses in the late 1800s). After (2) fires, one in July 1951, & the other in June 2004; both times the aged wooden concrete forms ignited & the Redwood timbers smoldered for several hours. The fire was difficult to reach and extinguish. Firefighters saved the structure by punching holes in the bridge sidewalks with jackhammers to pump in foam and water. The near-disaster spurred a major rehabilitation of the Cabrillo Bridge. A one-year, California Transportation project repaired broken concrete, replaced corroded steel, & finally removed old wood from the original construction.
After crossing the bridge, we walked the concrete trail around the western side of the park, watched a few fellows competing in lawn bowling & then followed a dirt-gravel path that headed down into the canyon. Up ahead, is that a mountain climber? Oh, yea, it's Kathy.
An hr ago, in the city, now in the canyon of the mountains; and we have a fairly good view of the renovated Cabrillo Bridge 1st hand, with some steep up & down hiking included.
Back on the eastern side of Balboa Park, a young & beautiful bride-to-be was preparing for photo shots soon to be taken by her nearby photographer.
Leaving Balboa Park, we were detained for some time by a police escorted protest march. The protesters were mostly college students, many holding up signs for "public money."
My pedometer registered a total of: (2.6) miles. Dinner: Beef stew, a mixed salad & whole wheat bread.
Evening movie: "D.O.A." with Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell, etc. Gripping, original film noir with O'Brien desperately trying to find who has given him a slow-acting poison...and why. 1950. Best to stay awake; this riveting story is complicated.
Lights out: 12:25am.
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