Archive of posts with tag 'California'

SF's Orange Sky

September 10, 2020 • #

California, Washington, and Oregon are currently fighting wildfires peppering the Cascades and coastal ranges. Twitter was afire with photos of an eerie orange sky from the smoke blowing across the peninsula toward the Pacific.

Here are some highlights I flagged from around the Twitterverse:

Some cinematic drone footage:

The beginning of...

The Salton Sea

February 6, 2019 • #

I don’t remember what got me to it, but the other day I found this short documetary video about Southern California’s Salton Sea, a saline lake about 80 miles inland from San Diego:

I knew about its infamy as a failed resort destination, with planned developments like Desert Shores and Salton City that popped up on its edge in the 1950s. What I didn’t know was the sea’s history as the result of an engineering accident, induced by the California Development Company trying to divert...

San Jose

February 4, 2019 • #

We just touched down in San Jose this afternoon, here for the SaaStr Annual conference. An uneventful flight through LAX, arriving around 1pm local time here in California. One of my favorite things about westbound travel is the ability to get here with enough time to check things out the same day.

San Jose, California

As I like to do with a new city, I got out on the road for a run to explore a little. The Guadalupe River runs through downtown San Jose right near where I’m...