Show Off Your Homeland

[rexbeccarox]

I live in coastal San Diego county. People who choose to live here say things like, "work? Oh yeah... I'm a sound engineer. But duuuude, I had a gnarly sesh at Tamarack yesterday. You know that dude, Greg? Yeah. He had to lend me some wax, man. I was out there for four hours, dude! Oh, the meeting? I rescheduled. We paddled out instead."

Basically, work interrupts our vacation time around here.

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We also have the second-largest street fair in North America; first, west of the Mississippi. It happens twice a year: at the beginning of November and near Mother's day.

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Just about everyone who lives here owns a beach cruiser and puts more miles on it than his or her car:

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Vitamin D doesn't have to be purchased or added to one's diet:

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And you get to see something like this:

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... this:

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... this:

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Or maybe this:

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... every evening.

Plus, as San Diego County blows up the beer scene, we, in North County are definitely picking up the pace: Stone, Bagby, Port Brewing, Oceanside Ale Works, Breakwater, Legacy, Karl Strauss, Belching Beaver, Mother Earth, Latitude 33, Aztec, Iron Fist, Barrel Harbor (ssssssss... deep breath...) Prohibition, Green Flash, Ballast Point, and Alesmith, to name a few.

If anyone wants to come to visit (and wants to treat), we can go to the Torrey Pines gliderport to have a picnic and paraglide or to Lake Elsinore (or Perris or San Diego) to skydive. We could golf at a cheap golf course or a world-class one. We could have a beach day and watch dolphins hang out in the waves with the surfers or we could throw a frisbee. We could go to the Safari Park and watch the meerkats for three hours. Eat the best Mexican food on the planet, or even some amazing sushi. Bar hop. Get stoned because I have my rec and I can only get my hands on the best: indica, sativa, yummy hybrids and even yummier baked goods; whatever you want. Take the ferry to Catalina and go ziplining, then eat some great food. See a show at my favorite local venue: the Belly Up. Come in the summer (or fall for a few weeks for the past couple of years) to go to the horse races at Del Mar or come in the spring and we'll hike to the mushroom caves.

I really do live in Paradise. Sorry guys: I do get braggy. I'll stop