Up again early, and after plucking on the guitar, decided to head to Santee Lakes for a quick walk. Beautiful scene driving down the 52 with early morning mist in the valleys burning off. Drove back round to try and catch it again. Santee Lakes was beautiful – thousands of birds everywhere, fisherman, ducks, pick up trucks and RVs. The tree in the lake was packed with birds, and the bright green grass around it was wet with dew.

Quick walk, then picked up my north face jacket, and went to the Friends of SD Architecture talk ‘Adventures in Planning’ by Angeles Leira at the New School by , which was an interesting examination of the challenges of shaping SD county and its communities –

The Culinary Historians of San Diego talk ‘Is American Chinese Food Authentic’ by Dr. Yong Chen at the central library was great. The Cornell alum who had written the book was informative and funny. Then a group went up to 99 Ranch in Claremont and had a guided tour of the store, ending with a quick lunch where I had hand ripped noodles with spicy cumin lamb

Running super low on gas, I cruised to the nearest Costco (filled 13.7G), and picked up a new giant tin of coffee…