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by Sum1
Rated: E · Book · Travel · #1779685
I travel the country on business, sometimes the world. Come see where I've been.
#965277 added August 30, 2019 at 10:41pm
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San Diego County
Date: Week of August 26th 2019


Locale: San Diego, California


         This week finds me in beautiful San Diego to deliver a class to the county of San Diego.  The topic is two classes, but there's a lot of overlap in delivering them.  Fortunately the customer asked us to deliver it in four days instead of five, so that helped a lot in the timing of the modules.  Instead of making it two classes, I treated it as one.  Let me explain.

         The first part of the class was on what we call the GTR 8000 Expandable Site Subsystem.  It involves a base radio, and the other equipment mounted in the rack that makes this part of a larger system.  The second class is called Simulcast, a method of transmitting the audio over a wider area, increasing the customers ability to remain in communication.  Well, the radio sites in the Simulcast System are GTR 8000 Expandable Site Subsystems.  You can see the overlap, and our problem delivering both classes back to back.  Treating it just one class with a focus on the GTr 8000 part made it a lot easier.  It went smoothly and the students seemed to receive it well.


         I arrived a bit early on Monday, and thought I'd visit the San Diego Safari Park.  If you like seeing animals in the closest thing to their natural habitat, visit this place!  Also, once class was done Friday, I decided to play tourist a little, and visited Cabrillo National Monument.  It was the first place a European stepped foot on the west coast of what became the United States.  Great views of the ocean and harbor from high above the coast!


Noteworthy Restaurants:


         94th Aerosquadron          https://94thsandiego.com/  This is such an interesting place to dine at!  They exist at small airports in large cities.  I first found one of these in Miami in 2004, and have since visited one in Wheeling Illinois (now closed), Columbus Ohio, Atlanta Georgia (100th Bomber Group is the name of that one), the Proud Bird near LAX, and one somewhere in Pennsylvania, but for the life of me I can't remember where.  The food is excellent, with an atmosphere that's even better.


         Duke's La Jolla          https://www.dukeslajolla.com/menus/dinner/  If you know me at all, then you know how much I love Hawaii, and the great food you can have there.  Duke Kahanamoku was the man who brought surfing to the world, and an Olympic Champion Swimmer.  The food here is better than most places I've dined, with a wonderful Hawaiian atmosphere.


Photo's From Visit:


WWI Tri Plane Replica


Cabrillo National Monument



Historic/Interesting Places Visited:

         San Diego Zoo Safari Park          https://www.sdzsafaripark.org/  I was here about 17 years ago, and it's changed dramatically.  No animals live in cages, they are in the wild essentially, on 1600 acres of land!  Of course carnivores are separated from the herbivores with large walls separating them.  A great place to visit and spend an afternoon, though I was pretty beat at the end of the day.


         Cabrillo National Monument          https://www.nps.gov/cabr/index.htm
This site honors Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European to set foot on what became the west coast of the United States in 1542.


In Closing

         I will spend the weekend at home, and fly to Washington DC for a class just south of the National Mall next week.  Til next time, be good to yourselves and those you love, and WRITE!



Jim Dorrell

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