California

The crowds, the gridlock, the miles of wannabes and wouldbes and arebes. A city who’s portrait is unanimously painted as a “golden city” littered with self-proclaimed glamor and powder-covered skin: Los Angeles and Hollywood are interchangeable in the minds of the media and its followers. The question du jour: Does the city live up to [...]

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Yellow mercedes crashes into cement bridge-support wall at Hill and 2nd St. intersection just minutes before video was taken. Video footage recorded by The Digital Backpacker at 3:52pm today.Though the frontend of the mercedes was impounded by the cement structure, the driver was unharmed.

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At 10:42am yesterday morning, an eruption of excitement came to me in my seat on the Surfline Amtrak heading to Los Angeles. Needing an outlet for the moment’s energy, I began writing this post: Excuse me!? Nobody told me the Amtrak has 120 volt electrical outlets for every seat! This is nuts! I’m in travel [...]

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After racing down to the Del Mar Fare Grounds early yesterday morning, only to discover we had chosen one of the two days out of the month in which it closes to the public, we decided a decent and non-disappointing alternative would be the Birch Aquarium at Scripps University. What comes to mind when attempting [...]

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Ocean beach was…a little less than what I expected. My expectations weren’t high for the area or the Hostel, and both still underwhelmed me. Early Wednesday morning, I rolled out of bed and realized I needed to pack. I had been at the Hostelling International downtown for two weeks! Packing took a very short amount [...]

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Over the weekend, a biotech conference was held at the Convention Center in downtown San Diego. Just over six blocks away on Broadway, a small but organized protest formed and started marching on the sidewalk. The protestors were soon joined by police-car excorts, and four on-foot policemen, with a goal of “keeping the peace”. Though [...]

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It is very rare that I will devote an entire post to a specific store or restaurant…but this place is worthy. Knowing I had a full day of work ahead of me today, I got up early and stumbled into the dining room area of the Hostelling International San Diego, opened up my laptop, and [...]

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This review is sponsored by Scott Holmes from Helping People to Help Themselves. Helping People to Help Themselves is a nonprofit organization based on Maui, Hawaii which is working to build a world-class orphanage in the Philippines. The San Diego Zoo was an attraction I knew I would have mixed feelings about. By nature, the [...]

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