Named for a Spanish saint, San Diego is the birth place of modern state of California on the western coast of the United States. This spring break we took the highway (I-5) paralleling the old King's Highway or El Camino Real to visit this wonderful piece of real estate along the Pacific. Back in the late 1700's it was considered New Spain. Those Europeans knew how to spend their time during the 1500 - 1800s setting out on long voyages to "discover new worlds". Now we go to the moon or something boring. On one such discovery voyage a Portuguese called Juan Cabrillo took off from the Mexican west coast and sailed up to discover new lands and ports. He found San Diego and continued up to discover Monterey and then Point Reyes north of the Golden Gate. They missed finding San Francisco in their travels. After a few centuries another Spaniard called Gaspar Portola took a bunch of soldiers and set out from the south west coast of Mexico to subsequent...
Among human crayons I am Brown. Also, my thoughts bounce around and resemble the idea of Brownian motion. This blog is an interface for the reader into this unique jello I call my mind. A mind so fertile anything grows. An agnostic yet curious mind. A mind attempting the Horatian or Kabirism maxim of Carpe Diem or Aaj kareso aab. Rated W I L D for wilfully irritating to large demographic is sometimes the latter - graphic in its descriptions. Caveat Lector!