Sunny in San Diego

Whoever said Florida was a fabulous place obviously never lived here. Well, I take that back. If you’re 85 years old then it’s a great place I guess.
Then again most people complain about the summer weather. So many of the snowbirds only come in the winter. The rest of South Florida is essentially filled with
islanders and dumps. There are nice areas but it’s mostly places you don’t want to live unless you are an islander. And in certain areas if you speak English, you’ll feel like
you are in a different country. You’ll be the outsider.

Nothing wrong with any of that. But to me Florida is boring. It’s humid. It’s hot. It’s rained almost every day that I’ve been here. And I’ve been here for almost 6 months. I thought Seattle was bad, South Florida is worse. True it’ll only rain for an hour or two, but then the bugs come out and it’s sticky. Nothing like 90 degree weather with 100 percent humidity. You walk outside and you are already soaked. Plus it’s one big plaza malls. Every single block looks alike. Publix here, Publix there, a Dunkin Donuts here and a Dunkin Donuts there. My nephew came to visit and he asked me two questions. “Why does it rain all the time?” and “Why are there soo many malls that look the same?”
It’s easy to get lost because there is no originality.

Anyway, anybody that ever tells you South Florida is wonderful is full of crap. Come visit for a week or two in the winter and leave. It’s a place I sure as hell dont’ want to be.

I told you I’d have pictures and a story…
If you are a friend of mine on facebook, then you’ve seen this pictures already…at least if you looked at them. If you’re not a friend on FB or didn’t look at them yet, then check them out, come back and read the Walk of an insane man (from Oceanside, CA to La Jolla, CA – 31+ miles later).

Oceanside to La Jolla Walk..

So where do I start? Well that’s simple what idiotic person would actually think about walking from Oceanside, CA to Pacific Beach(PB) ? That’s over 30 miles in walking and knowing how I roll and my ‘shortcuts’, that’s closer to 40 miles. No sane person would willingly do this. In fact, some people might have refused to do this if they had a gun held to their head or were offered $10K. But I guess I (PJAM3, PJAM, Peter J Jamack III, PJ3, Pistol Pete, Pete da killa, Bloody Pete, Peter J, Petey Pete, Peter, Pete, whatever name you want to call me) isn’t sane. More like insane considering after the long insane walk I went horseback riding the next day. Yes I must be insane. How do I put up with myself?

I changed plans early on in the day because it seems the Coaster train that goes from Downtown San Diego up to Oceanside, CA and back only runs out of Oceanside till 630pm on Saturdays. I was not going to make it up to Oceanside from PB by 630pm. So I needed to figure out another option to complete my trek. And not starting my trek was definitely NOT in my vocabulary at that time. What did I do you might ask? Well stay tuned…Just kidding.

I figured I could park downtown and take the Coaster up to Oceanside early in the morning. $6.50 for a one way ticket was pretty good. But go figure early meant the earliest train out of San Diego was 945am and wouldn’t arrive into Oceanside until like 1040am. Great, I was going to start my journey close to lunch time. No worries though.

The ride on the Coaster was magnificent. It was relatively empty and I sat up on the second deck. Great views, relaxing(even though the seats were not that comfortable), but nothing can be that perfect can it. There was some little kid about 9 or 10. He was a bit on the chubby side and he decided to run back and forth the entire time. And running back and forth wasn’t just enough but he had to scream, shout, holler, plus run back and forth and bang each seat. He never touched my seat but his behavior was annoying as hell. Add to the fact his fat father seemed to just sit and chuckle at all this and you have on big fat family I guess. It sure didn’t look like this kid ran much. More like ate too much. I will stop now. It was annoying is all I’ll say and I’m sure the other passengers on the trip felt the same as I did. At least they didn’t go all the way to Oceanside. They got off around Carlsbad. Anyway…

So I get off in Oceanside and it’s raining. Some older couple got off the train with me and their family laughed and said, “Welcome to the great Southern California weather.” It was kind of funny as there was nothing but overcast skies and some drops of rain. Not what you’d expect I guess. It was a bit on the chilly side too and I wasn’t too smart in my attire choices. I wore a muscle workout shirt with no sleeves and shorts. I did wear plenty of sunscreen lotion this time but like I would need it much.

To be continued…..

So far in the month of June there has been no sun. My cousins came out last week from the east coast and I think it was cloudy every day. It even rained, hailed, and there was a lightning storm. What the hell? I moved to San Diego to get away from the Seattle overcast skies and rain.

How did I move to San Diego about a year ago and wind up stuck in gloomy June weather. How funny. But I can’t complain because the sun did peek out a few times, it’s been over 70 degrees and I went for a hike out near hellhole canyon where it was a bright sunny day with nothing but blue skies and 110 degree weather. So I can’t complain that much.

Oh yeah the PJAM3 Philosophical Tragedies blog will be up and running again once I fix it but I’ll be posting here as well.

Plus soon you’ll have to check out a new company in town called SocoTechnologies(SoconLime Inc.).
You can visit them at SocoTechnologies