vanagon to mexico

Check out this book I found in a box in the garage... Mexico from the Driver's Seat: Tales of the Road from Baja to the Yucatan (ISBN 1-878166-04-2) by Mike Nelson... check out the vehicle pictured on the cover. (-: There is a chapter, "Driving to the Copper Canyon." It begins: "If you've ever heard the call of a new road beckoning you, or like Joseph Conrad longed for the 'blank spots on the map,' the nI've got a road for you!" (swoon!)

old pictures (or, "how I got this way"?)

During one particularly great Christmas, I received my first oscilloscope (from jqmold), and a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.0, with which I learned to program (another picture).

Goodbye San Diego

Goodbye, San Diego.
You are a city
for halcyon days.

catalogue of adventures: UCSD pictures: My office, the Sun God, and the Geisel Library. Melon festival, discovery of the craft center, ucsd stories, including a plea for friends, john's graduation, notes on "that's so UCSD", pictures from Coronado, journey to the center of the earth—before lunch!, meeting megan1, notes from claire du lune, death of a volkswagen, another mind-numbing day on the clairemont mesa, person to person, escape to ensenada, person to person II, california day — adventures with megan, fourth of july, dying of boredom II, hashing, rebirth of a volkswagen, berkeley trip I, person to person III, tweedy fire, berkeley trip I — pictures, attempted night photography, hilcrest&mdashdenied, life in san diego—photos, notes (meeting erin, the corporation, neon), the other vanagon, life in san diego II—El Portal, bike "stolen", the Music Man and random nocturnal neon escapades, bike recovered, screen on the green, neon escapades, critical mass, pride, hamburger mary's, black's beach drum circle, more adventures with megan (edward gorey, ocean beach, movies+popcorn), denouemont, notes (new jansport, flautas), escape to ensenada II ("return to la bufadora"), berkeley trip II, adventures in assembly-line medicine, berkeley trip II—pictures, neon—success.

In a few hours, I'll be on a plane bound for zip code 14720.

Here's a parting image from San Diego: the view from the IGPP offices of the Scripps pier:

( Why is it called Scripps? )

I have a few UCSD entries left to write up.. but then we're on to ROCHESTER.