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San Diego Zoo Visit Should Include Balboa Park
A trip to San Diego just has to include a visit to the world-famous San Diego Zoo, where visitors from all over the world continue to be amazed.
Yet many people don't realize that the San Diego Zoo is just one part of an amazing collection of fascinating attractions and museums that, together, comprise Balboa Park. While you might allow several hours for your visit to the zoo, you could literally come back several different days to enjoy the 15 museums located on this picturesque piece of San Diego real estate.
The park has become a cultural centerpiece for a city that combines majestic seascapes with a cosmopolitan downtown ' and, oh, did we mention the weather? Reputed to have the best climate in the country, San Diego boasts hundreds of blue-sky 65-to-75-degree days every year.
And so, much more often than not, the sun casts a warm glow over Balboa Park, illuminating the park's stunning combination of historic architecture and lush landscaping. Many of the park's buildings were the result of two expositions ' the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition and the 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition. Everywhere you go in the park you are reminded of the ornate, almost palace-like designs common in the first part of the 20th Century.
While we had enjoyed many visits to the San Diego Zoo, the focus of our most recent visit was the OTHER side of the park ' the part that houses the museums, gardens and many other attractions. Our advice to anyone visiting the park is plan plenty of time for your visit. And be prepared for a little walking.
After a quick visit to the park Visitor Center ' where you can buy combo passes that allow you to get in most of the museums for one flat price ' we stopped in first at the nearby Museum of Photographic Arts. Rows and rows of wall-mounted enlarged black-and-while photos were tastefully arranged just like you would expect in any exhibit of modern art. This modern art does a wonderful job of conveying many historic times from earlier in the century. Photos often seemed to be taken in the 30s or 40s.
The museum features photos by some of the greatest photographers in the country but we thought some of the most fascinating photos were part of an exhibit by film star Jeff Bridges. His wife gave him a special camera shortly after they were married and this camera, in effect, creates wide angle black and white photos that are the same shape as a movie screen. Bridges apparently has taken photos on most of his movie sets, and this "behind-the-scenes" look at movie-making is not only artful, but interesting.
Next door was the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, a sure-fire hit with our four-year-old and a reminder of our own boyhood memories of driving electric Lionel trains. Our own trains had track systems pretty much confined to the bedroom floor, and our scenery amounted to a train station and a few miniature people. The Model Railroad Museum offers us all the train set we always wished we could have had ' actually a series of trains and tracks that show highly detailed dioramas of the terrain in San Diego County and the Southwestern U.S.
It's obvious that many hundreds of hours have gone into the careful re-creation of small cities, passenger stations, switching stations, freight yards and even such things as model refineries and other industrial locations. Spread throughout a series of rooms are several train systems, each shown traveling through a different geographical region of the country. Standing somewhere in the middle of it all were the middle-aged engineers ' still boys at heart, every one.
Just upstairs from the Model Railroad Museum is a remarkably good snack bar that offers deli-style sandwiches and a tantalizing assortment of fresh pastries. If an elegant sit-down meal is more to your liking, the Prado Restaurant is in the same general vicinity.
After pausing for a brief lunch at the deli, we took a brisk walk down to the southern edge of the park where we wanted to be sure and take in the San Diego Aerospace Museum. True air museum buffs will really appreciate the fact that this museum is directly under the flight path for a major airport. When you're looking at historic aircraft displays, somehow it just seems fitting to have the building rattled every several minutes by aircraft seemingly just a couple of hundred feet overhead.
The Aerospace Museum is a jewel for anyone fascinated with airplanes. The circular building is packed full of real aircraft, all displayed logically, whether by type or by historic timeline. The museum offers a replica of the Wright Brothers' airplane and even gives visitors a chance to lay in a flight simulator to see what that flight might have been like. A progression is shown through World War I aircraft, including one display where you can view the uniform, maps, goggles and other equipment of a real World War I ace. For those interested in military weaponry, it's almost astonishing to see what they used for bombs ' a small hand grenade with missile fins that they just threw out of the cockpit.
World War II and commercial aviation are covered as well, but a more recent part of aviation history is the Apollo 9 spacecraft on display at the museum ' the only such craft displayed in the western United States. Moon rocks are on hand, as are examples of the space suits and other equipment used by our astronauts in the various programs that put Americans into space.
Just one building north of the Aerospace Museum is where you'll find plenty of hot cars -- the San Diego Automotive Museum. Similar to the classic car shows you might find in Las Vegas or Laughlin, Nevada, this museum is a showroom packed to the rafters with historic cars produced all over the world. Altogether there are more than 80 historic cars and motorcycles and, every few months, a special display is brought in -- such as the Italian cars on display during our visit.
Walking to our next museum stop, we stopped by the outdoor Spreckles Organ Pavilion, where free concerts are offered each Sunday at 2 p.m. It's a great place to get off your feet for a few minutes while listening to a top-rated musician demonstrating this extraordinary pipe organ. Visitors of all ages were enjoying the music.
We finished off our day with stops at the Mingei International Museum and the San Diego Natural History Museum. The Mingei offers a fine collection of contemporary folk art and, upstairs, an impressive collection of children's toys and dollhouses. The Natural History Museum is worth some extra time and, in addition to more generalized exhibits about the natural world, the museum currently offers an especially topical exhibit called Earth, Wind and Wildfire, detailing the wildfires that struck the San Diego area in October 2003.
It took us the better part of the day to just scratch the surface of Balboa Park's many museums and attractions ' in future trips we'll no doubt spend time at such park attractions as the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, which includes am impressive IMAX theater, and the San Diego Museum of Art. And there is so much more.
Indeed, now when we think Balboa Park and we're likely to think about a whole lot more than just the zoo that made this park famous.
AT A GLANCE
WHERE: Balboa Park is located near downtown San Diego and is easily accessible from Interstate 5 or Highway 163.
WHAT: The park is home to not only the San Diego Zoo, but 15 unique museums as well as several gardens and trails. There are also a couple of theaters offering live performances.
WHEN: Year-round.
WHY: The park has something for everyone. Whether you're interested in cars, airplaines, trains, art, science or just a beautiful setting, Balboa has it.
HOW: For more information on Balboa Park, call (619) 239-0512 or visit www.balboapark.org.
About the Author
Cary Ordway is president of Getaway Media Corp which publishes websites on getaway travel. GMC websites focus on California beach hotels and other lodging, as well as Oregon travel and other destinations in the Pacific Northwest.
What are some common words used in the late 18th century?
What are some common words used in the late 18th century?
For example:
Exquisite
Daftly
Indeed
Quite
Rather
Laborious
BQ: What were some phrases and things said?
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Would you care to take a stroll through the park?
May I inquire how old you are?
This is a list of idioms that were recognizable to literate people in the late 19th century, and have become unfamiliar since.
Abbot of Misrule – Lord of Misrule
Admirable Doctor – Roger Bacon.
Attic Bee – Sophocles, from the sweetness and beauty of his productions.
Bidding Prayer – an exhortation to prayer in some special reference, followed by the Lord's Prayer, in which the congregation joins.
Blue-gown – in Scotland a beggar, a bedesman of the king, who wore a blue gown, the gift of the king, and had his license to beg.
Bonnet-piece – a gold coin of James V of Scotland, so called from the king being represented on it as wearing a bonnet instead of a crown.
Brown, Jones, and Robinson – three middle-class Englishmen on their travels abroad, as figured in the pages of Punch.
Chicard – (French loanword) the harlequin of the French carnival, grotesquely dressed up.
Circumlocution Office – a name employed by Dickens in Little Dorrit to designate wearisome Government bureaucracy.
Cockney School – An epithet, originally abusive, for the second generation of Romantic writers, centered about Leigh Hunt, of whom John Keats is the most famous, as centered in London, and by implication lower-middle-class. (Revived by a school of London working-class writers in the 1890's).
Comity of Nations – the name given for the effect given in one country to the laws and institutions of another in dealing with a native of it (see extraterritoriality).
Corn-cracker – the nickname of a Kentucky man (pejorative).
Corpuscular Philosophy – the philosophy which accounts for physical phenomena by the position and the motions of corpuscles.
Cincinnatus of the Americans – George Washington after the original Roman Cincinnatus.
Conscript Fathers – Translates Latin Patres Conscripti; this is a term for members of the Roman Senate.
Diamond Necklace – specifically, the one belonging to Marie Antoinette
Dircaean Swan or Dircæan Swan – Pindar, so called from the fountain Dirce, near Thebes, his birthplace.
Fagot vote – a vote created by the partitioning of a property into as many apartments as will entitle the holders to vote.
First Gentleman of Europe – George IV of the United Kingdom, from his fine style and manners.
Federal Union – generally any union of states in which each State has jurisdiction in local matters, such as the United States.
Gehenna Bailiffs – ministers of hell's justice, whose function is to see to and enforce the rights of hell.
Gens Braccata – the Gauls, from braccæ or breeches.
Gens Togata – the Romans, from wearing the toga.
German Voltaire – name given sometimes to Wieland and sometimes to Goethe.
Gothamite – New York equivalent of cockney (still in use in some contexts).
Hectic fever – a fever connected with tuberculosis, and showing itself by a bright pink flush on the cheeks.
Horn Gate – the gate of dreams which come true, as distinct from the Ivory Gate, through which the visions seen are shadowy and unreal.
In-and-in – breeding of animals from the same parentage. Also an old two-dice game, where 'in' is a double and 'in-and-in' is double doubles, which sweeps the board.
Island of Saints – a poetic name given to Ireland in the Middle Ages.
Ivan Ivanovitch – a term invoking a lazy, good-natured Russian.
Jack Brag – a pretender who ingratiates himself with people above him.
The Open Secret – the secret that lies open to all, but is seen into and understood by only few, applied especially to the mystery of the life, the spiritual life, which is the possession of all (Carlyle).
Passing-bell – a bell tolled at the moment of the death of a person to invite his neighbours to pray for the safe passing of his soul.
Penny wedding – a wedding at which the guests pay part of the charges of the festival.
Persiflage – a light, quizzing mockery, or scoffing, especially on serious subjects, out of a cool, callous contempt for them.
Peter Bell – a simple rustic (Wordsworth).
Petite Nature – a French loanword applied to pictures containing figures less than life-size, but with the effect of life-size.
Pot-wallopers – a class of electors in a borough who claimed the right to vote on the ground of boiling a pot within its limits for six months.
Pourparler – a diplomatic conference towards the framing of a treaty.
Punic faith – a promise that one can put no trust in. From Latin punica fides, alluding to Roman mistrust of Carthago.
Revival of Letters – a term for literary aspects of the Renaissance, specifically the revival of the study of Greek literature.
The Temple of Immensity – the universe as felt to be in every corner of it a temple consecrated to worship in.
Pilot questions Warner Park goose-kill rationale
Jens Luebow has a unique perspective on the Madison Park Commission's decision to approve the killing of dozens of geese at Warner Park. He's a veterinarian and a self-described "animal conservationist." He's also a private pilot who's flown "thousands" of times from the Dane County Regional Airport over the last quarter century.
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