The San Diego Traveler

Looking through this week’s photos on Flickr, I came across some beautiful images of San Diego that I’d like to share:

Thanks for these fine photographers for capturing a bit of life here this week.
Photo credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/slack12/2635848077/Photo credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigjno/2625295636/Photo credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/philipgibbs/2644715032/Photo credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/badgopher/2622758370/Photo credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/adrianlee/2635760426/Photo credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/annalouise/2636910262/

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Each year, Girl Scouts sell cookies to raise money to fund their troops and councils. Since 2002, they have also collected donations for Operation Thin Mint during their cookie sales.
Operation Thin Mint is a nationwide Girl Scouts of America effort, originally spearheaded for the Navy by the Girls Scouts from the San Diego-Imperial Council in 2002. Since that time, San Diego-Imperial Council has sent 1,086,157 boxes of cookies to the troops, and the Operation Thin Mint effort has spread nationwide.

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San Diego’s own Carly Smithson delivered her last performance on American Idol this evening. Her rendition of Jesus Christ Superstar made Andrew Lloyd Webber proud, and you can’t ask for more than that.

Carly definitely out-performed some of the other competitors, so why didn’t she get the votes? Perhaps it was the “kiss of death” when Simon said that hers was one of his favorite performances of the night. Could it be her tattoos that kept her from connecting with the largest fan base? Maybe the fans thought she did so well that she was safe, and one of the other …read more

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