San Diego Nooks and Crannies

I've noticed that people often assume San Diego is flat. The thinking must be "San Diego = Beach, Beach = flat, flat = no details" . Nothing could be further from the truth. As even I, a native, am realizing, San Diego has a lot of little nooks and crannies: Hills and Canyons, Cul de sacs on the edges of mesas, and funny streets that end on one side of a valley or canyon and start up on the other side.

I hope to show some of these odd little spots in future posts, with photos and Google maps.

Shop cats of San Diego

For some reason I just love finding a cat in a shop. That's especially so if I stumble upon them. It lends the store a feeling of being a place, a place where someone lives. Let's put it this way: Wal-Mart doesn't have shop cats.

The first cat featured here lives somewhere on Ray Street here in the North Park section of San Diego. I've seen it in more then one store.

Here he (I assume) is late during Ray at Night. People were still milling around, while he was locked inside ...