The San Diego Traveler

September 22nd, 2008

Hotel del Seeks Expansion

The Hotel del Coronado, San Diego’s most famous hotel, is planning to add 144 condominium hotel rooms, underground parking, and larger conference facilities in order to better compete with new expansive facilities such as the Hilton San Diego Bayfront (due to open in December) and Gaylord Resort and Convention Center Chula Vista (anticipated for 2013).
This […]

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September 18th, 2008

The San Diego Special Edition - September 18, 2008

Welcome to the September 2008 issue of The San Diego Special Edition!
This edition includes not only some great articles, but more videos, photoblogs, and a podcast! Have you noticed blogging becoming more multi-dimensional?
Did you catch Martha Stewart’s show on blogging this week?  The variety of blogs featured was pretty cool. I guess when Martha […]

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September 3rd, 2008

Rebuilding Vista

Have you driven around Vista lately? Does it seem like they’re rebuilding everything? Well, you’re right, they are!
Vista Civic Center
The City of Vista broke ground on the new City’s Civic Center last week, which will replace the ramshackle 1931 school and trailers that currently houses city hall, replacing them with the beautiful facility below […]

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August 29th, 2008

Ballpark Village Hotel Plans Scrapped

The Marriott has canceled their plan to build the West Coast’s largest hotel – with 1,929 rooms – at Ballpark Village, just east of Petco Park.
San Diego would have received an estimated $18 million a year in hotel taxes from the project, which would have more than covered the city’s $11 million annual debt […]

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August 18th, 2008

The San Diego Special Edition - August 18, 2008

Welcome to the August 2008 issue of The San Diego Special Edition! We have an excellent mix of bloggers participating this month, with articles ranging from arts to sports. I hope that you enjoy reading this compilation of some of San Diego’s best blogs, and show the writers some love by leaving your comments on […]

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June 27th, 2008

This Week’s Featured Photos

Browsing through Flickr this week, I was thrilled to find these wonderful new images of San Diego:

Thanks to these talented and generous photographers for sharing these images with us.
Photo #1 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael-seljos/2610349684/Photo #2 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnandketurah/2609286582/Photo #3 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/shindotv/2612803088/Photo #4 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/tkkate/2612632720/Photo #5 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielgreene/2599365712/Photo #6 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/vissago/2605323549/

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June 11th, 2008

Aptera’s Gasoline Hybrid Coming

Carlsbad’s own automotive company, Aptera, plans to follow up their upcoming all-electrical vehicle with a gasoline hybrid claiming to reach 300 mile per gallon!

Popular Mechanics Tour of Aptera
The “plug-in series hybrid” or “range-extended electric vehicle” (aka Typ-1H) does not yet have a launch date announced, but if you’d like to be among the first to […]

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June 10th, 2008

Aptera Launches in Carlsbad

With gas prices soaring, Aptera (Greek for “wingless flight”) couldn’t pick a better time to launch a gasless vehicle. The Carlsbad automotive company has built an electric 3-wheel futuristic conveyance (the Aptera Typ-1) that reports to drive 120 miles on a single battery charge.

Aptera Typ-1 Tour

This “enclosed motorcycle” is charged by plugging it in […]

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May 16th, 2008

Are You Tech Savvy?

Approximately ten percent of San Diegans are “digitally savvy,” according to Scarborough Research. The real surprise is that we ranked ahead of high tech metropolises Seattle and San Francisco! We were, in fact, number four, behind Austin, Las Vegas, and Sacramento.
How About You?

Do you own:
 A PDA
 A digital video recorder
 A satellite radio […]

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May 13th, 2008

San Diegans Reach Out to Chinese Earthquake Victims

According to the Chinese Service Center of San Diego, there are 30,750 Chinese people living in San Diego county (as of the last census). This represents about 1.9% of our population. But of course, you don’t have to be Chinese to relate to the victims of yesterday’s massive earthquake in China.
With death tolls […]

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