The San Diego Traveler

The Omni San Diego Hotel (opened in 2004) is located adjacent to Petco Park, which is just across the street from the San Diego Convention Center. This is all conveniently situated right in the Gaslamp District, so visitors can walk to  restaurants and nightclubs from there, or take a short drive to Seaport Village for shopping and more restaurants.
One of the things that makes this hotel completely unique is that it is connected to Petco Park by a skybridge. In fact, it’s the only hotel to directly link to a major league facility in the U.S. If you’re a …read more

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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 payment on the ballpark.
This hotel would have been welcome relief for the larger conventions, such as Comic-Con, which regularly sells out all of the local hotels each year.
It’s unclear whether there are any other developers ready to step in, but if not, how will San …read more

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If you’ve never been to a Scrapbook Expo, it’s a much bigger event than you probably would imagine.
There are dozens of vendors selling thousands of scrapbooking and card-making products, sell-out 1-2 hour workshops, all-day and evening cropping, and lots of make-and-take opportunities.
Crops
Cropping events are scrapbooking parties where people scrapbook next to each other while contests or raffles are held, games may be played, and my favorite part is checking out everyone else’s artwork. Crops will be held throughout the expo:
1.  Friday All Day Crop & Shop (8:00am – 11:30pm)
$40 per person (Reserve a Table for an additional $20 if …read more

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If you’re familiar with the Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, then I’m sure you know the host, Kiko, and of course, Unicow. They’ll both be appearing at Comic-Con this year!

If you don’t know these wacky characters, you can go to GorgeousTiny.com to watch the latest episode or learn more about these strange and wonderful creatures. They should fit right in with the Comic-Con crowd, who truly appreciate and pay homage to the wild, weird and wacky.

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Looking through the latest images of San Diego, I’d like to call your attention to these winners:

Thanks to these fine photographers for sharing their art with the rest of us.
Photo #1 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcgrote/2658474463/Photo #2 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/docoleg/2640791247/Photo #3 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/12530381@N07/2654985529/Photo #4 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirkhansen/2651403367/Photo #5 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/coebabelghoti/2657880454/Photo #6 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewjking87/2653030190/

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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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This week I thought I’d feature photos of some of the most interesting public sculptures found around San Diego County.

What a contrast of styles and subjects! Many thanks to the talented sculptors and photographers who captured their masterpieces.
Of course, this is just a tiny sampling of the variety of public sculptures you’ll find around the county. Do you have a favorite? If so, send us a photo.
Photo #1 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/slack12/2512613418/Photo #2 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/thepma/205472576/Photo #3 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/64167494@N00/2423295531/Photo #4 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotobydave/312884120/Photo #5 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul-w-locke/457136847/

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