Totally missed the Bachelor content again this week with failing to mention Victoria’s past shoplifting from Publix…
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Post US-Open during the Summer you won’t see any rough. It will be cutdown and much easier to play. I guess it’s whether you want the PGA/US-Open challenge on the South or if you want the more pleasant / more fun course with better views on the North.
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my thinking is i can get the pleasant, fun experience any time; US Open experience not so much
Modern Times did a collaboration with a local Vancouver brewery, Strange Fellows (Strange Times for Modern Fellows). Fab Saison!
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Bachelor is a total blind spot! Is it any good still?
Matt is a boring lead but this season drama has been around Victoria who is a complete mess. Tayshia’s season in Palm Springs was excellent.
Also side note, I forgot to mention my personal favorite local beer that isn’t just a huge barrel of hops in your mouth. Cali Creamin. It’s on tap at Crack Shack downtown (or at least it was).
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Not sure it was ever “good”…but still fun!
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I am just going to object to calling a building infrastructure. Buildings are structure, not infrastructure.
Some may disagree, but they are wrong 
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“the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise” Oxford/Google
I think a library being essential to UCSD qualifies whereas maybe a random shed won’t. I feel like what is and isn’t infrastructure is a potential podcast topic.
Indeed. I view infrastructure, in the context of the built environment, as enabling systems - transport, energy, water, utility, communications, etc - the foundational means to achieve the end. I view a library, or a house, or an office - the end use.
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I’m surprised that the Navy allowed the Coronado Bridge to be built. They’re to thank for the bridge-tunnel traffic we have the pleasure of dealing with in Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
Fair enough.
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alexbooyag did an excellent job filling in some of the gaps. As a resident of SD for 6 years I can perhaps provide a few takes on San Diego proper.
As mentioned Little Italy is a good spot (lived there for first two years before moving up to Bankers Hill - which I believe Xander calls home as well) filled with young professionals and trendy dining. Lots of infrastructure and real estate development going on there now. Some cool real estate wars with higher end apartments going up blocking bay and Point Loma views of buildings just a few years old.
I’ve been struck with the compactness of downtown and the city. There is a fair amount of sprawl to the east and north counties but it doesn’t feel to me like the 8th largest city in the country. On that note there are some aspirational communities within spitting distance of downtown and the airport. Point Loma and Coronado as mentioned are great. The neighborhoods on both all sides of Balboa Park are all cool. North Park is ground zero for hipsters in SD and South Park a little sleepier but still trendy. The best IMO is Mission Hills which sits north of the airport and just south of Mission Valley where the old stadium is/was. Believe it was the first “suburb” of San Diego, feels like an urban oasis with 100 year old homes and good restaurants and access to everywhere you’d want to go.
Alex again nailed it with the shift of the Mexican food framing from tacos to burritos, when Randy mentioned tacos in the pod I felt oddly naked and then realized that it really is more of a burrito town than tacos. Tijuana on the other hand has notable taco shops. Strong California’s and breakfast burritos can be found at Super Bronco, El Zarape, Don Carlos’ in La Jolla among others. I’m born and bred on SF/Oakland Mission style burritos and much as I’d like to ride for SD I still think burrito culture lags behind the Bay Area. Number one burrito I’ve found is at JV’s near Univ of San Diego campus. Wild card entry- many have said that the best burrito in San Diego is the Carne Asada at San Diego CC. Most unique Mexican food can be found at Las Cuatro Milpas near Petco Park in Barrio Logan. Cash only with a line down the block.
Takes on SAN were spot on. Living in Bankers Hill and frequenting 6:20AM departures I can hop in an Uber at 5:30AM with zero worries about making flight. Only issue is lack of directs, frequent connections in PHX/DFW/LAX for AA fliers and SLC/ATL for Delta crew, can’t speak to TC’s United as I have successfully avoided the worst airline for the last decade plus. One infrastructure/airport peculiarity that has to be mentioned is the Cross Border Xpress in Otay. Simply take an Uber/Lyft a half hr southwest of downtown and cross the US/Mexico border using this land terminal that drops you right into the Tijuana International Airport. From there you have access to nonstop directs via Volaris, Interjet, Aeromexico to anywhere you’d like to go in Mexico at a fraction of the cost of using domestic carriers.
Lastly, golf takes in the pod were solid. Public options of Coronado, Torrey North and Balboa standout. Mission Bay has a fun executive course with lights and is in surprisingly good shape. Privates are good not great. SDCC has great bones, potential and greens (I’m biased), Rancho Santa Fe and the Farms further north are good. La Jolla CC recently underwent large renovation and many people rave about the work they did.
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@Tron is right about Blais. Crack Shack is ok but overrated compared to the hype it gets.
Harbaugh was at USD when I was in school there, he would walk with a purpose around campus.
San Diego has a good coffee scene. Modern Times is good. I don’t drink craft beer anymore but there were tons of good breweries in SD. Societe (I think) and Alpine were ones I liked back in the day but I think Alpine got bought and became crappy.
The Ballast Point acquisition is wild…worth reading about how bad that went before it was sold again for pennies on the dollar.
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@tron is also right that Jersey Mike’s makes one heck of a chain Philly Cheesesteak although being an Atlanta boy, he had to have also gone to Philly Connection…loved that place. Very underrated.
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Solid recap. To me, San Diego is a 5-tool baseball prospect who has had an excellent, but not HOF career. Everything about it is aesthetically there, no obvious technical flaws, awesome on paper, can be awe-inspiring at times, and yet, it still feels like it doesn’t meet its potential.
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Don’t sleep on Maderas in Poway i know its not downtown but def one of my favorites. And just a 30 min car ride up to Oceanside is Goat Hill, which to me has prob the hardest greens arounds
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I heard someone refer to San Diego as Los Angeles without the ambition. I like it.
Super relaxed area where nobody is trying to be rich or famous. People just want to live their life, raise their family, and get in some waves before work.
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Didn’t hear it mentioned but Encinitas has some pretty solid surf spots with chill lineups.