Joel tagged me with the "Hometown Meme," which is okay, but my difficulty lies in not having lived anywhere other than Honolulu long enough to call it my home town (and Honolulu was in my youth).
In other words, three years in San Diego county can't compare to having your uncle be the first mayor of the town from which you blog more than sixty years later (take a bow, Joel).
But I'm game.
Four things about San Diego that many people don't know:
1. On November 12, 1602, the first Christian religious service of record in California was conducted by Fray Antonio de la Ascensión, a member of Vizcaíno's expedition, celebrating the feast day of San Diego (English-speaking folk call him Saint Didacus of Alcalá, if they remember him at all).
2. Jedediah Smith, the first (non-native) American to arrive overland in San Diego, did that in 1826.
3. Per a docent in the Old Town State Historic Park whose name I forget, downtown San Diego would have been several miles further inland than it is, and clustered around Mission San Diego, if rival developers who wanted to center the city along the edge of its harbor not had the "foresight" to remove property records from a county courthouse the night before a mysterious fire burned it down, thus putting the inland crowd at a disadvantage in "negotiations" with the harbor crowd.
4. If you don't mind sitting on the grass behind centerfield and across a stadium walkway, you can watch the Padres play baseball at Petco Park for only $5.00.
Bonus twofer:
Almost every Mexican restaurant in and around town serves great fish tacos, and even some of the fast-food joints offer tasty lobster burritos.
The Blue Angels come to the Air Show at MCAS Miramar every year.
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Those are good things for my San Diego fund of knowledge. I know that it has wonderful zoos and wild animal parks. That it's beautiful. And that it's very, very hot sometimes. Oh, yes, one other thing -- it's home to one of the best bloggers around.
Thanks, Patrick!
The only thing I knew about San Diego before this was that it had been selected as a contender for the new Zion by the Mormons, until Brigham Young decided to settle in Salt Lake instead and called his advance party back.
And I didn't actually grow up here, FWIW. I was raised in a town that makes this pace look downright urban. (Stoplights and everything! Hully gee!) I just settled here about 12 years ago because I had extended family. But it's home now.
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