The List

Here is my preliminary Bucket List. I got most of the ideas from the website Hiddensandiego.net, and I hope emeraldrain doesn't mind me using her ideas (I figure that's what she made the site for anyway). I then supplemented with ideas from the San Diego Family free magazines, particularly the one called "Out & About: 380+ Fun Family Adventures," as well as a little bit from the AAA Westways magazine. I will probably add to it as I find out about new ideas. If anyone knows specifically about slides in San Diego (like playground slides, but cool ones, specifically super-long slides, concrete slides, and slides that go down hillsides), let me know and I will definitely add it to my list. Here goes:

Hiking/Nature

• XBlue Sky Reserve
• #Mt. Woodson
• XElfin Forest
• #Devil’s Punchbowl/Cedar Creek Falls
• Los Peñasquitos Canyon (easy)
• XHo Chi Minh trail
• #Kit Carson Park (hiking, and feed ducks?)
• XBlack Mountain trail
• #Golden Hill Park (part of Balboa Park)
• XPalomar Observatory (and trail)
• #Bridle Trail in Balboa Park
• #Palm Canyon in Balboa Park
• Adobe Falls in Mission Valley
• ?Old Pomerado Road
• #Old Mission Dam
• ?Stonewall Mine
• ?Lake Hodges (incl. bridge)
• #Webb Park (ducks & scooter)
• #Mission Trails Regional Park
• #Lake Miramar/Miramar Reservoir
• *Double Peak Park (San Marcos)

Museums/Paid places

• #Tijuana River National Estuary
• #Living Coast Discovery Center (Chula Vista Nature Center)
• #Carlsbad Flower fields (march-mid may)
• #Old Town museums (esp. Mason Schoolhouse)
• Marston House & Gardens
• ?Lavender Fields (free)
• #Mission Basilica San Diego de Acala
• #San Diego Botanic Garden ($12 or $8 plus $2 parking)
• ?Sunny Jim Cave ($4)
• #Water Conservation Garden (free)
• #World Beat Center (Balboa Park)
• #Map and Atlas Museum of La Jolla
• Women’s Museum (Pt. Loma)
• ?Whaley House (Old Town)
• ?California Wolf Center
• ?William Heath Davis House
• XMonarch Program Butterfly Vivarium
• ?San Diego Firehouse Museum
• ?Maritime Museum
• ?Midway Museum

Just to Look Around

• #Santa Fe Train Depot (Amtrak)
• Grant Hotel
• *Hotel del Coronado
• Point Loma University
• #UCSD grounds
• San Diego State grounds
• #Heritage Park Victorian Village (Old Town)
• ?Murphy Canyon
• XGalleta Meadows (metal sculptures)
• #25^th St. Musical Bridge
• #U.S. Olympic Training Center
• Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade

Day trips (multiple or extended activities)

• #Julian: apples and Eagle/ High Peak Mine
• Leo Carillo Ranch and Rancho Carillo trail
• Mushroom Beach (add to Beach Walk)
• #Presidio Park (trails and historic places)
• Rancho Peñasquitos waterfall hike and other stuff
• ?Warner Springs County
• ?Old Poway Park

Other

• #Ocean Beach Farmer’s Market
• #Maple Canyon (bridges)
• Blue Sky Ranch
• #Chicano Park
• #Queen Califa’s Magical Circle (Kit Carson Park)
• #Santee Drive-in theater
• #South Bay Drive-in theater
• ?Sunset Park (San Marcos)
• #Suspension Bridge (Banker’s Hill)
• #Topiary Garden 3549 Union St.
• Washington St. Skatepark
• #Grape Day Park
• XWriterz Blok
• ?Mt. Helix
• *Coronado Public Art Walking Tour
• #Tweet Street park 

*=I really want to do this

?=I might not really care to do this
#= I did it!
X= I decided not to try (probably because of distance, or difficulty)

I should probably number it... but then it'd mess up the categories if I were to add more. Hmmmmm.... Well, there it is for now! We'll see how much I can do in a year!

Testing, testing...

So, I want to start a blog when I move back to San Francisco, but I figure I would like to know what I'm doing, at least a little, before then. So I am starting a blog, which I intend for no one but myself to see, here in San Diego, with the hopes that in a little over a year, I will have figured out the basics of blogging, and maybe some of the intricacies as well, and my SF blog will therefore be much more effective and useful.

Now... how do I post photos?

Ok, there's a photo, and it's a good one, because it has me in it, it shows that I'm a Giants fan, and it's recent. It also shows that I'm in San Diego, without giving away any personal information. Yay! 

Anyway, I think what I will be doing with this blog is that I will post my various adventures in San Diego, and I will probably play around with editing, and changing styles, and stuff like that. The premise of this blog is that I have a bucket list of all the cool things I want to do, see and explore in the year I have left in San Diego. As I do those activities, I will post about them here. Let's see what happens!