I had to leave town for a week to do a projector install in a basketball arena. Here's a few highlights from San Diego for this #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay
My projection mapping project basically took all week with 12 hour days so I didn't get to explore much of San Diego except for one day for lunch. My coworkers and I wanted to look lunch near the beach and we found a small sandwich shop near Torrey Pines Gliderport.
Here various paragliders and instructors catch the winds off the ocean above the cliffs to glide around. It was quite fun scarfing down my lunch while watching these guys try to take off and land. It looks pretty complicated to my eyes.
They can zoom around quite fast and somehow they have to land on a tiny little grass area without getting tangled up with each other.
The guy in the yellow paraglider was doing various tricks like hanging upside down. Later he grabbed a landed paraglider guy with his legs from above, too bad I didn't catch that on camera.
Right next to the paraglider landing zone there was a raptor cage for falconers.
They had falcons, hawks and a gold eagle in the back. Once the paragliders go home the falconers bring them out to do tricks and training.
It was a bit cool (by California standards) by the beach so these guys were soaking up the sunrays with their wings.
I stayed in a hotel right near a strange looking two steepled church. I thought it was Scientologist at first but then I saw golden angels at the top of the steeples and realized this was a Mormon temple. It looked quite fancy on the outside. I doubt they let random tourists inside plus I had no time to explore because I was busy with the projection mapping.
Now its time to head back from warm California to cold Chicago. This was somewhere over Arizona. Time for a four hour nap.
When I woke up I saw the familiar flat lands of Chicagoland, still quite a bit of fall color in the trees.
Here's a forest preserve near O'hare that I sometimes go to look for mushrooms at. Mushroom season is pretty much over now but if it gets sunny around here again I might try and go here for the leaf colors. Next time I go to San Diego I'll have to actually go down to the beach for a real walk.
That's all for now thanks for looking :-)