Third day in a row at 172 pounds. Goal is 170. Today is my Saturday, my history is to go up on the weekends. Here is to going down for once.
Started the day with this breakfast: 4 fried eggs, about 7 or so slices of fried bacon, and one chayote. Also 2 corn tortillas.
Drove out to Palm Springs with the plan to hike up a ridgeline near the windmills off I-10 with my camera and Manfrotto tripod and get a self portrait for the back cover of the coming ebook. Got out there to discover that I left the quick release plate at the house in another camera bag, and the tripod screw was too big to screw into the slot on my Nikon. So no self portrait. However here is a photo of the area, hand held.
Not doing that again, I will probably go with this one taken a week ago with the tripod and self timer at the Korean Friendship Bell in San Pedro, California, home of the USS Iowa Battleship Museum.
Here is a photograph of the memorial taken the same day.
I am proud that my several blog posts a couple of years ago regarding the disgraceful state that the memorial had fallen into, taken over by the pigeons and I am sure that you know what that means,totally filthy with layers of droppings everywhere, had something to do with the decision made to scour it clean to go with the restoration that was also undertaken.
This visit I noticed that it was still clean, it is no longer being ignored by the park authority.
By the way, it wasn't a total wasted trip today. Picked up a pound of honey
dates, had 7, and bought 3 big red persimmons, not quite ripe yet. My girlfriend was very pleased with that little buy.
