
Date taken :Tuesday 01/15/2008
Description :
On the way to Borrego Springs and the Anza Borrego desert, stands a monument to the effect of unemployment in the desert. In the 1920s, Jacumba resident, Bert Vaughn, built the tower in the middle of the desert, providing a stunning view of the boulders and rugged desert plants surrounding the area. Perhaps stranger and more striking however, are the accompanying sculptures carved near the tower by W.T. Ratcliffe while unemployed during the Great Depression.
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Date taken :Friday 01/11/2008
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Mission Trails Regional Park in Santee offers great walking, hiking, biking, and equestrian trails as well as stunning scenes of natural beauty. It is a wilderness fan's dream and is conveniently located in the heart of East County. The park stands as a monument to a previous San Diego, in a more simple time before the suburbs and city sprawl.
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Date taken :Thursday 12/27/2007
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Torrey Pines State Reserve, located just beside Del Mar, is a beautiful park that captures the wild San Diego coast like nowhere else. Early settlers and Native Americans once cherished the view and thanks to the foresight of early city planners, it is sill around to be adored well into the twenty first century. Admire the native flora and fauna of San Diego without driving hours out of the city.
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