May 28th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Damian Maple, a homeless man in San Diego, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for beating an Australian tourist, Robert Schneider, with a skateboard and dragging him into a fire pit. Maple went down for attempted murder for attacking the 26-year-old Adelaide resident in 2008.
Maple's accomplice, Francisco Montoya, was sentenced to two years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. Montoya is ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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San Diego homeless man gets 14 years for beating, burning Aussie tourist
May 28th, 2009 at 6:00PM: Damian Maple, a homeless man in San Diego, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for beating an Australian tourist, Robert Schneider, with a skateboard and dragging him into a fire pit. Maple went down for attempted murder for attacking the 26-year-old Adelaide resident in 2008.
Maple's accomplice, Francisco Montoya, was sentenced to two years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. Montoya is ...TripAdvisor readers pick their favorite beaches
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:00PM:
More than 1,800 readers have spoken their minds on TripAdvisor and picked their favorite beaches. This summer, 58 percent of vacationers will be headed for sun, sand and surf – making the spot where ocean meets turf the most popular destination. The only challenge now is picking one. There are thousands of miles of coast in the United States alone ... how do you choose one spot?
Well, the ...Helo pilot grounded because of in-flight porn star tryst
May 15th, 2009 at 4:00PM: Definition of good sex: you're willing to come back for more Definition of great sex: you're willing to piss away your pilot's license Definition of unforgettable sex: "great" sex with a porn star
David Martz is stupid enough to make receiving oral sex unpleasant. How? He was videotaped(!) on the receiving end of a passenger's lips while flying a helicopter around San Diego. If this is some ...Cincinnati crime-fighter becomes local attraction
Chattanooga, Portsmouth among top art destinations in the U.S.
Apr 18th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Who thought that Tennessee and New Hampshire would be some of the top towns in the country for art lovers. AmericanStyle magazine just issued the results of its twelfth annual arts destinations poll. Some spots are predictable. Others, like Chattanooga, will just blow your mind. This is the first year Chattanooga made the list, shooting all the way up to second in the mid-sized city category. If ...Fare alert - Virgin America $38 flights to fun destinations
Mar 4th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Bored this week? Virgin America has some nice low fares loaded right now for travel to and from San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Los Angeles or Las Vegas. At just $38 each way, you can get yourself a round trip ticket for just $97, all taxes and fees included. The prices only seem to be valid for travel in the coming week, so don't expect $100 tickets during the summer months. Normally, good ...Photo of the day (12.13.09)
Jan 13th, 2009 at 7:30PM:
The Santa Ana winds picked up this week, swirling over Southern California and bringing unnaturally warm temperatures for this time of the year. It's a great time for a business trip from the snowy grips of the Midwest. Matteo.Mazzoni's photo of this lonely traveler on the California beach echoes some of my experiences this week, as I wandered around North Park, Mission Beach and the Gaslamp, ...Proposal for new San Diego airport draws criticism, laughter
Jan 9th, 2009 at 10:30AM: For years, San Diego has been working hard to find a new location for its single runway Lindbergh airport. Back in 2003, a group of investors announced that they had found the perfect location, but would not reveal it until the government granted a patent for the concept. The patent was granted 2 weeks ago, which meant it was time to reveal the location of this super secret airport - turns out ...Call full-service hotels directly for best deals
Nov 19th, 2008 at 3:00PM: With the economy the way it is these days, hotel deals are for the asking. Although many deals are bundled into packages that include airfare, that's not the only way to save money.
In this New York Times, "On The Road" article, Peter Greenberg, the travel editor of "Today" recommends calling full-service hotels directly to find out what deals can be offered "right now."
Greenberg recommends ...Halloween graveyard tours and a graveyard joke
Oct 24th, 2008 at 1:30PM: There are haunted prison tours and haunted hotels to sleep in. Here is another way to traipse through some haunts for Halloween.
Graveyards that can seem peaceful during the day are perfect settings at night for finding chills and thrills. If there is a graveyard in a town or city near you, I bet there's a tour. Regardless of the season, graveyards offer a span of history that includes triumph ...Naked sunbathing creating a stir in San Diego, but still okay
Sep 3rd, 2008 at 12:00PM: Just last week a judge ruled that sunbathing in the nude at San Onofre State Beach in San Diego is still allowed.
Earlier this summer there was a brouhaha because the California Department of Parks and Recreation wanted to ban nude sunbathing, even though beaching it in the buff has been allowed here for decades.
The parks and recreation department said that some sunbathers were being lewd near ...Great White Shark. San Diego coast. Not good.
Apr 25th, 2008 at 4:24PM: Until this morning, it had apparently been some 14 years since the last great white shark attack off the coast of San Diego.
This morning, a 66-year-old swimmer in triathlon training was killed by a shark about 150 yards off Solana Beach, near San Diego, LA Times reports. Other swimmers apparently saw him actually being lifted out of the water and drug under and whey went to his aid and dragged ...San Luis Obispo: Possible place to visit or move to
Mar 29th, 2008 at 1:00PM: A friend and I were talking today about what we're up to. She's up to traveling to California during the end of April with her boyfriend to look for a place to live one day. They're starting in San Diego and heading up the coast. They don't know exactly where they want to live so I threw out San Luis Obispo as a possibility. I've never been there, but have heard great things. One of my oldest ...Good Deed Travel (Mexico here I come): Packing list justification
Mar 13th, 2008 at 10:30PM: Tomorrow I'm flying to San Diego on Southwest Airlines and on Sunday I'm going by bus to Mexico to build houses with more teenagers (one of them my daughter) than I've been around in awhile. That's the plan anyway. I'll fill you in on how that goes.
With Southwest Airlines' woes of having to ground planes and cancel flights, I'm wondering about the first leg of this endeavor. Since I'm supposed ...Measles on a Plane
Feb 14th, 2008 at 2:00PM: Passengers on a flight from San Diego to Hawaii were expecting to have a safe flight followed by, hopefully, some relaxing time in Hawaii. Instead, they were exposed to measles.
Measles is a highly contagious disease and is characterized by the famous rash that first develops on the face and head, spreading downward to the torso and arms.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that an 11 month ...Concierge's IT List: Places for upscale tastes, but maybe cheaper
Jan 6th, 2008 at 3:30PM: There's The New York Times list of 53 places to go in 2008 (see post), the 40 travel tips and suggestions from London's Times (see post )and now Concierge.com has an IT List of 10 more suggestions, all with sound reasoning behind each one.
The way a destination ends up on this list is that it's had enough people show up to increase the odds that it has some sense of what travelers like, ...10 of the 53 places to go in 2008
Dec 28th, 2007 at 12:00PM: I already mentioned Detroit as being number 40 on the list of the New York Times places to go in 2008. Sad to say, I have only been to the airport in Detroit. After posting about this city, I agree that the capital of the automobile and Motown is indeed a place to see this year.
Places to go lists such as the New York Times version can either make a person feel as depressed as hell that one can't ...California fires close parks and other attractions
Oct 24th, 2007 at 9:30AM: If you've got a trip planned to Southern California this weekend, it might be a good idea to reschedule. Besides the current poor air quality and the fact that you might need to outrun a wildfire, many attractions and amusement parks have shut down until the smoke clears. SeaWorld, Legoland, and the San Diego Wild Animal Park are all closed (although the San Diego Zoo remains open). Broadway San ...Skybus to Cut Flights and Add More
Oct 16th, 2007 at 11:15AM: Rats! Be still my heart. I just heard that Skybus is canceling its Columbus to Bellingham flights starting in the spring.
I wrote that line last Thursday after I heard it on one of my local news stations, but I couldn't get a confirmation if this was indeed fact. Skybus wasn't talking on their website and whatever I did find, was a vague might. Today, it's official. My husband even called me ...Reasons to Love San Diego
Aug 6th, 2007 at 1:35PM: It's hard to read this list of reasons to love San Diego from Budget Travel without picturing Ron Burgundy pointing at you and saying, "Stay classy San Diego". Or maybe that's just me. It's not that I'm NOT a big fan of California's southern most city. I actually lived there and taught windsurfing a loooong time ago on Mission bay. But taking a look at this list, I realized how much the city has ...
