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S: 2010 Road Trip and Sweepstakes Convention
FC: 3rd Annual Summer Road Trip & 2010 Bloomington Sweepstakes Convention Lucky 21
1: 3rd Annual Summer Road Trip and 2010 Bloomington Sweepstakes Convention Lucky 21 Pictures by John Miller, Greg Johnson and others Text by Greg Johnson
2: Day 1 - Grand Rapids, MN to Des Moines, IA June 24th - 6:02am to 6:15pm Miles traveled - 490
3: Our first stop of the day was for breakfast at Kelly's Kitchen in Palisade, MN. Kelly cooked up some yummy turkey and wild rice omelets for us!
4: After Kelly's our next stop was at the Big Walleye in Garrison, MN. That held us until we arrived in Faribault, MN where we found this big Tin Man family! We stopped at the Buddy Holly crash site again this year - we noticed a few changes...there was a giant pair of glasses where the path to the crash site begins and the path itself had been widened. Corn was growing in both fields - last time one field was planted with corn and one with soybeans. There were a lot fewer pot plants on the path and around the crash site, and those few were mostly dead.
5: We didn't get to check out the Surf Ballroom on our road trip a couple of years ago cuz they were closed the day we stopped by, but they were open this trip! We arrived early in the afternoon and a crew was finishing setting up for the band Sevendust who was playing that night. I thought it was a bit odd that they would be playing there! We wandered around the ballroom area and took several pics - it's a really neat place! It looks like a lot of the original booths are still there. | After about fifteen minutes we finished with pictures and put the trolls away in their traveling bag and we were standing there doing our final looksy around the ballroom when the tour manager came up to us and asked if we were part of the local crew! We both said no and she said that we had to leave - we got kicked out of the Surf Ballroom!
6: The first OLSer we met on this trip was Sparkle8! | We had a big dinner planned with Xan later so we just had some snacks while Sparkle and her gang had one of Smitty's huge tenderloin sandwiches! | Sparkle and her gang! | After visiting with Sparkle we headed over to Xan's - she and Brian had a yummy dinner planned for us! Fresh Iowa corn on the cob ROCKS!
7: Day 2 - Des Moines, IA to Des Moines, IA June 25th - 10am to 3pm Miles traveled - 250 After a good nites sleep our plan was to check out some Iowa area attractions then go out to dinner with Xan, Brian and Beanie. We started out with one of the many covered bridges in Madison County then traveled to Adair where we checked out the site of the first train robbery in the west.
8: In Audubon we met up with the infamous Albert the Bull! There is no doubt that he is a bull! In nearby Kimballton is a replica of the Little Mermaid. Our new companion Lucky Ducky enjoyed swimming in her pool! In Elk Horn we saw a windmill from 1848 that was brought over piece by piece from Holland!
9: We had two last stops on the way back to Des Moines. The Freedom Rock near Menlo. A guy paints new designs on it every year! Back in Madison County we visited the famous Roseman Covered Bridge. | The Roseman bridge is supposedly haunted by an escaped convict who was trapped on the bridge in 1892 by sheriff deputies. The man rose up through the roof of the bridge and disappeared, never to be seen again!
10: We picked up Brian and went to Taki Steakhouse where we met up with DJsPrincess for some sushi and chop-chop food! Luckily our cook was better at cooking than comedy!
11: We took some after dinner pics and headed home stopping at a cemetery in the middle of the road that has been there since the 1800's! Baked and I shared a sofa bed at Xan's...guess which side was mine!
12: Day 3 - Des Moines, IA to Laramie, WY June 26th - 9:30am to 3:30am Miles traveled - 750 Our first destination was Big Mama's Kitchen in Omaha, Nebraska! But on the way we saw this giant VW spider in Avoca, IA and the Golden Spike Monument in Council Bluff, IA. In Omaha we saw the Sapp Brother's Coffee Pot Water tower!
13: One of the things we like to try on these road trips are food places we see on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and other food shows. We stopped in Omaha to try the oven fried chicken at Big Mama's Kitchen! We started with an Afro Burger - HOT! SPICY! HOT! We then tried the chicken, I had it plain and Baked had his with gravy. Neither one of us liked it - to me it just tasted like flour coated chicken, but the sides of corn bread, coleslaw, man 'n cheese and fried okra were AWESOME! I even ate a little of the fried okra!
14: Our next stop was at the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska. I used to order the type of engine in the bottom center pic while I was in the Navy!
16: We continued our trek across Nebraska with a stop at one of the Trail of the Whispering Giants in Cottonwood, NE. Our next stop was in Hastings, NE where Kool-Aid was invented! Outside the visitors center we found the Kool-Aid Man's footprints!
17: There is an exhibit about Kool-Aid in the Hasting Museum of Natural and Cultural History. There was also an exhibit about the history of guns and I got to dress up! After the museum we went downtown to the actual birthplace of Kool-Aid!
18: Our next planned stop was at the Heartland Military Museum, but they were already closed. Apparently after hours they turn the grounds over to the geese! It was getting late so we stopped in North Platte, NE at Penny's Diner for a buffalo burger and a chili burger. While I was busy working uploading pics and updating the trip thread, someone else was playing around in chat!
19: Right next door to Penny's Diner is the Fort Cody Trading Post. We left Nebraska briefly so we could visit Colorado. We were in Colorado about fifteen minutes! By this time it's well after midnight but we kept heading west!
20: We finally made it to Wyoming! We stop in Pine Bluffs to see a giant Virgin Mary statue. About 1:30am we stop at Warren Air Force Base and asks the guards if we can take pictures of the missiles. They say we can as long as we don't take pictures of the guard shack. Baked almost gets us arrested after he starts to drive onto the base to go around the guard shack! It's after 2am and we're still not done! We stopped at the Ames Brothers monument in Buford, WY. We tried maneuvering the cube and using the headlights to light up the monument....nothing worked. We drove a few miles more to a rest stop where we crashed in the Cube while the giant head of Abraham Lincoln watched over us!
21: Day 4 - Laramie, WY to Salt Lake City, UT June 27th - 6am to 3:30pm Miles traveled - 400 We were determined to get some good pics of the Ames Brothers monument, so we went back there first thing in the morning.
22: Driving away from the monument we saw an antelope out on the prairie! On our second pass through Laramie we stopped at the Chief Washakie statue and a copper dinosaur. Most attractions are easy to find...we spent forever finding this one because it was hidden by buildings and trees Jebus, NeanderTroll and Professor OLS were not excited about the scenery in Wyoming!
23: We stopped at a rest area where we found a prairie dog town and saw a big elk! The scenery improved once we reached Utah, here's Jebus at Devil's Slide in Weber Canyon, Utah. We got to Dallasdol's house and cleaned up a bit before the SLC gtg that evening. John1948 couldn't make it to the gtg, but dropped by to visit for a while!
24: The Salt Lake area gtg was held at the Red iguana - great food and drinks!! Even the trolls and dolls got into the hijinks! The SLC gtg was the biggest one of the trip!
25: After dinner Dallasdol and her hubby showed us around Salt Lake City! We visited Temple Square and the State Capital. Dallasdol and her hubby ROCK!
26: Our first stop of the morning was the Colonel Sanders statue at the very first KFC. Nearby was another Peter Wolf Toth statue from the Trail of the Whispering Giants series. On the long drive from SLC to Reno out in the middle of nowhere is "Metaphor: The Tree of Utah". Finally Wendover Will welcomed us to West Wendover and to Nevada! | Day 5 - Salt Lake City, UT to Reno, NV June 28th - 9am to 6:30pm Miles traveled - 570
27: The trek across Nevada continued with a brief stop in Elko, NV to see White King, the world's largest polar bear! The temperature was starting to rise outside but the A/C kept us cool inside! Many of the rest stops along our route had historical markers about the old wagon trail we were following. "Traveling Through Hell" speaks the truth of this stretch of highway.
28: After arriving in Reno we met up with Tinamarina71 and her hubby and they showed us around! First we saw the original Reno arch, then went for some all you can eat BBQ ribs at Gecko's in the Circus, Circus casino. The ribs rocked! But the corn on the cob was some of the worst I've ever had! Nearby we stopped at the more famous Reno arch downtown. After dinner they took us up on a hill overlooking Reno for some great night time views of Reno! Tinamarina71 and her hubby ROCK!
29: Day 6 - Reno, NV to San Francisco, CA June 29th - 6am to 12:30pm Miles traveled - 250 | Our first stop of the day is the Donner Party Monument near Truckee, CA. The base of the statue is 22' high, the depth of the snow the settlers suffered through! In Sacramento, CA we stopped at a giant Coke cup! Soon we were heading across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco!
30: After we arrived in San Francisco Panda, her mom Wanda and Mark took us for some Dim Sum in Chinatown! | All the food was brought out on carts and you just pointed at what you wanted to eat. We were adventurous and let Wanda do most of the ordering! | One of her favorites is boiled chicken feet! The best method of eating them is to stuff the whole thing in at once, smoosh it around in your mouth and spit out the bones. It tasted like chicken!
31: After lunch we walked around Chinatown and saw some of the delicacies in the shops like fish heads and live frogs! I got kicked out after taking the frog pic cuz they must have thought we were from PETA! Then we walked up to Coit Tower, recently featured on The Amazing Race! There were great views of the Bay Bridge and Lombard Street from there!
32: We went down to Fisherman's Wharf and Pier 39 next. First we saw a sea lion statue then we saw some live sea lions!
33: Jebus met a new friend down along the wharf, but we didn't see the world famous Bushman. Awwwww!
36: Another stop on The Amazing Race was the Lucasfilms HQ on the Presidio! We saw the Yoda statue then went inside where they have a very cool lobby!
37: For dinner that night Mark and Panda took us for Korean BBQ! The octopus and the kimchi were awesome! | Mark and Panda ROCK!
38: Day 7 - San Francisco, CA to Monte Rio, CA June 30th - 9am to 11am Miles traveled - 80 | It was an awesome drive up to Monte Rio! Once there we met up with Tamo, her daughter and Delta and Smokey!
39: After visiting for a bit we went for a stroll and saw the Russian river and the entrance to the infamous Bohemian Grove! Then we took a drive to the coast and visited Goat Rock Beach. Tamo and her daughter thought it was a little too windy, but it made for an awesome surf!
40: After Tamo's hubby Paul got home that evening we went to Stumptown Brewery for dinner. The burgers and garlic fries rocked!
41: After dinner Jebus had a little skinny dip in the Russian River! We had an awesome time in Monte Rio. Tamo, her hubby Paul and her daughter ROCK! So do Smokey and Delta. We can't wait to go back someday!
42: Day 8 - Monte Rio, CA to Monterey, CA July 1st - 8:30am to 7pm Miles traveled - 245 | Our first stop of the day was at Stinson Beach where Jebus had fun in the surf and met another new friend! We continued down the Pacific Coast Highway to the Muir Beach Overlook. We examined the remains of the coastal defenses that protected San Francisco during World War II.
43: We passed through San Francisco again on our way south and found yet another vantage point for viewing the Golden Gate Bridge! Before crossing over we made our way to Rodeo Beach where we had a yummy picnic lunch that Tamo had packed for us!
44: After getting through San Francisco we decided to head inland to visit Big Basin Redwoods State Park. The drive was gorgeous and the Redwoods were awesome!
45: After a brief stop in Castroville to see the world's largest artichoke we arrived in Monterey. We found a place right on the docks and had mussels, crab salad and fried oysters! After dinner we visited the Dennis the Menace statue!
46: We began the day by visiting a gray whale statue in Pacific Grove, CA. It looked like a dead whale on the beach to us! We continued south on the Pacific Coast Highway seeing some great views of the ocean! | Day 9 - Monterey, CA to Thousand Oaks, CA July 2nd - 8:45am to 9pm Miles traveled - 335
48: We stopped at one beach where a bunch of seals had taken up residence! There was another little critter there that took a shine to Baked!
49: In San Luis Obispo we visited the famous bubble gum alley! | We met up with Christel in Buellton, CA for a yummy lunch! Outside the restaurant was a plaque for an important historical event!
50: After checking in at our hotel in Thousand Oaks we decided we had enough time to visit Malibu State Park and hike into the site where they filmed my favorite TV show of all time: M*A*S*H! It didn't take very long before we started to feel like we were in Korea!
51: And then....we were there! The site is awesome! Stakes mark out where the various camp buildings stood and on weekends they put out a replica of the sign that stood in the compound.
53: All that really remains at the site is a burned out ambulance and jeep. Baked and I posed in the center of the Swamp! It was getting late by the time we left the site and before we got back to the car it was completely dark! Luckily we had some LED lights that clipped to our hats!
54: After our M*A*S*H hike we were pretty hungry so we hit an In 'N Out Burger! We were told these were the BEST burgers and we agreed that they were pretty AWESOME!
55: Day 10 - Thousand Oaks, CA to Ridgecrest, CA July 3rd - 9:45am to 8:30pm Miles traveled - 225 | OMG! I've often wondered what I'd say or do if I ever met a member of KISS. I finally got to find out while we were in Los Angeles. Before we left on the road trip we found the home addresses of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley! After finding Gene's addy and checking with Google maps we confirmed Gene's addy to be true. We ended up with 2 addy's for Paul - neither of which we could confirm to be true or not. Anyways, our day in L.A. was going to begin with going to Gene and Paul's houses to take pics of me standing at their gates. I thought KISS was still over in Europe finishing up a tour so I didn't expect to see anyone. We drove to the first addy we had for Paul, stopped and I hopped out and took a few pics then got back into the car. We didn't want to spend too much time at either house cuz we didn't know how fast security or police could show up. After quickly getting a few pics I hopped back into the car and we started to pull out and I happen to notice a 2nd gate, it's open and a car had pulled out and stopped. I look over at the car and see a person standing outside the car talkin' to the driver. OMG! It's Paul Stanley! OMG! Paul Stanley is standing talking to somebody. OMG! It's Paul Stanley! I tell Baked 'OMG! It's Paul Stanley! Stop the car. OMG! It's Paul Stanley!' I'm sitting there in a daze. OMG! It's Paul Stanley! I keep thinking to myself 'What do I do? What do I do? OMG! It's Paul Stanley!' Baked tells me to get our of the car and go talk to him. OMG! It's Paul Stanley! So I get out, turn towards his direction and yell out 'Hey Paul' and he immediately yells back 'No, now get out of here!'. So I get back into the car and we drive away. OMG! I met Paul Stanley! OMG! Me and Paul Stanley spoke to each other! OMG! I met Paul Stanley! I turn to Baked and said 'OMG! I met Paul Stanley - let's go see if Gene is home!'. Sadly, Gene wasn't waiting for me at his gate. I did hear that Gene was in Vegas the day before we got there though. OMG! I met Paul Stanley!
56: After meeting Paul we visited several other KISStoric sites in Hollywood! Among them two former locations of Casablanca Records, KISS was the first artist on their roster. Next we visited the Rock Walk of Fame at Guitar Center. They also had a mural of Gene and lots of cool memorabilia! We found the KISS star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
57: We met up with Lissie and explored more of Hollywood! We saw Jack Benny's house, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Keifer Sutherland's star, Grauman's Chinese Theater and Ripley's Believe It or Not and the Hollywood sign! After all that we enjoyed some yummy frozen yogurt at Cefiore!
58: For lunch we went to Pink's - we stood in line for about 2 hours for hot dogs! We got a nice tan and some great tasting dogs! Baked had a Bacon Burrito hot dog and I had a Chili Cheese hot dog. I can see why Pink's is so popular with the celebs in Hollywood!
59: Filled with hot dogs we start our drive to JesterPester's, first stopping at Magic Mountain - the place where they filmed the classic KISS Meets The Phantom of the Park! We also stopped at Blackbird park in Palmdale, CA before driving through a beautiful sunset! We arrived at JesterPester's late in the evening and I got to meet Jester!
60: Day 11 - Ridgecrest, CA to Las Vegas, NV July 4th - 9:45am to 5pm Miles traveled - 295 | The trolls met some new friends in Jesters backyard and got a warning about traveling through Death Valley! We had a great time staying at JesterPester! JesterPester, her hubby, son and Jester ROCK!
61: After the warning from Jesters gnomes and then seeing the warning signs in Death Valley, Jebus and NeanderTroll decided to strip down in order to beat the heat!
62: As we continued through Death Valley we came across a 20 mule team wagon. It may have just been the heat (115 degrees!) but we saw a giant flying cookie! And then we were there....Badwater Basin, the lowest point in the United States!
63: We survived Death Valley and hurried on to Las Vegas where we met up with Col. Jim and her hubby and Panda and Mark for dinner at Le Burger Brasserie! They have an awesome Eiffel Tower onion ring appetizer! Afterwards we watched the Bellagio's water fountain spectacular and enjoyed the Ceasar's Palace fireworks!
64: Day 12 - Las Vegas, NV July 5th - 10am to 3pm Miles traveled - 35 | Our first stop of the day was the Pinball Museum - it doesn't look like much on the outside but they've got tons of working pinball machines that you can play inside. I finally got to play a KISS pinball machine and Baked found one that he's hopin' Santa brings him for Christmas! For lunch we went to Hash House A Go Go...their portions are HUGE!
65: The only KISS item we saw at the Hard Rock Hotel was this mural. | The pawn shop from the TV show Pawn Stars, next time we're in Vegas we're gonna try and find where they film the actual show. The pawn shop is tiny compared to what you see on TV. This chest was featured on the show a month or so before - it's for sale for only $10,000.00.
66: I got lost in Vegas - sorta. Joanne and Jim got us tickets to a show - the group is called Human Nature. They are 4 white Australian dudes who do a Motown tribute show! I had to chuckle a bit during the 2nd or 3rd song into the set when I swear they must have had at least a 100 Vegas-style dance moves/gestures/etc squeezed into one song! Anyways, before going to the show we made plans to check out the Bellagio water show again and a few others along the strip before the Human Nature show. I indulged a bit in one of my favorite treats and then we head out of the casino. I got a bit sidetracked watching one of the gaming wheels spinnin' round and round - I ended up losing sight of Baked. The Bellagio is right across the street from Bally's so I go over there but didn't see him. I figured I'd go try and find the Imperial Palace - the place where the Human Nature show was - and hope to find Baked there or at least run into him along the way. It was much easier said than done. After walking from Bally's all the way up the strip to the Wynn's area and not finding the Imperial Palace or Baked I decided to head back to Bally's. I stopped and watched the first couple minutes of the pirate show in front of Treasure Island. I noticed a hotel/casino/bar worker sitting at her podium so I went up and asked her if she knew where the Imperial Palace was - she didn't. She said that I was the 2nd person who asked her that day - hopefully she finds out before the 3rd person asks her! So I continue to head back to Bally's hoping that Baked found the Imperial Palace and wasn't going to miss the show. After a few minutes of walking I spotted another hotel/casino worker and asked him if he knew where the Imperial Palace was - he just pointed and said to keep going that way, so I did. I knew that Harrah's and the Imperial Palace were somehow connected - but I didn't know if they were owned by the same people or were literally connected like Bally's and Paris are. When I got close to Harrah's I looked a lot closer at things and saw a building next to Harrah's with the words 'Imperial Palace'. I start heading towards the building and came upon a small open-air market or something like that and a band playing in a small amphitheater thingy. No sign pointing to the Imperial Palace even though I knew it was just on the other side! I ended up walking thru Harrah's hoping it connected to the Imperial Palace - no dice. So, feeling defeated I head back towards Bally's and happen to see a really small sign on a wall with the words 'Imperial Palace' and an arrow pointing towards it. I figured the Imperial Palace was just taunting me but decided to follow the arrow anyways. I finally set foot in the Imperial Palace! I asked the first hotel/casino worker I see where the Human Nature show was and he gave me easy directions to the theater. I got off the elevator and walked into the lobby and there's Baked patiently waitin' for me! We found our seats and about 10 minutes later the show started!
67: After the show we went over to Freemont Street. We got to see a person dressed up in the worst Spiderman outfit I've ever seen! While at Freemont we saw the KISS Over Vegas show!
68: Day 13 - Las Vegas, NV to Camp Verde, AZ July 6th - 9:45am to 11pm Miles traveled - 525 | Our first stop of the day was the Hoover Dam. Next we found Snoopy on a rocket in Wikieup, AZ. We stopped to visit StanzaRae in Bagdad, AZ. We found out it's neighbors with Nothing, AZ! Bagdad's economy is based on copper mining and StanzaRae's hubby showed us around the area in his cool truck showing us the copper mining area where he works!
69: Next it was on to Phoenix where we picked up Airalynn and the mini chatters! | We visited a memorial park for the USS Arizona. Stella seemed to want to drive us to the Arizona memorial in Hawaii first! We also checked out a memorial to Arizona's Navajo Code Talkers! | After dropping everyone off Baked and I were off to see this cool statue of the American Gothic couple!
70: Day 14 - Camp Verde, AZ to Holbrook, AZ July 7th - 5:30am to 3pm Miles traveled - 345 | We spent the night sleeping in the Cube under the watchful guardianship of the world's largest Kokopelli before we headed off to the Grand Canyon!
74: Other stops for the day were a couple of classic Route 66 stops....the Twin Arrows and Standing on a Corner in Winslow, AZ. Also in Winslow was another in the Trail of the Whispering Pines series. We also visited another big hole in the ground, Meteor Crater!
75: It was only about 3pm but we had seen and done a lot! We arrived in Holbrook, AZ where we had reservations at another Route 66 classic, the Wigwam Motel! It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places! After taking a little nap we found a little Mexican style diner and had an awesome meal and internet access!
76: Day 15 - Holbrook, AZ to Albuquerque, NM July 8th - 9:30am to 7pm Miles traveled - 280 | NeanderTroll felt right at home in Holbrook! We continued on through the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert National Parks. Along the way we found more Route 66 artifacts and a giant Kachina!
78: Today we crossed the Continental Divide! Right next to the sign is a yard with these two missiles in it! And right next to the missiles is another sign, guess this particular homeowner has had a few bad experiences! For the record we did not do any of the forbidden activities. | Late in the afternoon we arrived in Albuquerque where we had dinner at Los Cuates with Hopeful Winnings and her hubby and sons! We had some awesome Mexican food! After dinner they took us to an iconic Albuquerque attraction, known locally as the Chevy on a Stick. Hopeful Winnings and her family rock!
79: Day 16 - Albuquerque, NM to Amarillo, TX July 9th - 9:15am to 11:30pm Miles traveled - 590 | Before hitting the road we visited Geek Mecca, the location where Microsoft was founded! We stopped in Ft. Sumner, NM to visit the grave of Billy the Kid. The tombstone has been stolen before, so it is enclosed in a double cage!
80: We caught up with Bobbydean while we were in Roswell, NM and chatted with him for a bit. If ya can't meet us for lunch or dinner we'll track ya down...even at work! There are aliens everywhere you look in Roswell and a statue of Dr Robert Goddard - he's the father of rocket propulsion.
81: We arrive in Texas! We stop in Lubbock to see several Buddy Holly related sites including his grave site. We also visit Lubbock's famous prairie dog town.
82: Before leaving Lubbock we had a great catfish dinner! | It's starting to get late but we decide to keep going and visit a few attractions at night. Tex Randall in Canyon, TX was pretty cool at night....it hid how much he's really falling apart! We visited these mysterious legs out in the middle of a field. They really need more lights on attractions at night! We find a McDonalds parking lot to sleep in for the night, vowing to return to the legs in the morning!
83: Day 17 - Amarillo, TX to Oklahoma City, OK July 10th - 6:30am to 1:30pm Miles traveled - 305 | If you ever need a parking lot to sleep in on the road we recommend McDonald's! They open early for a cup of coffee before you start your day! We went back to the legs in the field to get a better pic during the daytime, I like the nighttime pic better though. Next we visited the famous Cadillac Ranch just outside Amarillo.
84: In the Amarillo area we also found a Combine Ranch and a Slug Bug Ranch. We left a shout out to OLS Chat at the Slug Bug ranch! On our way across the Texas plains we visited a giant cross and a leaning water tower in Groom, TX.
85: We arrived in Oklahoma City and cleaned up at Trina's house before heading out to Cattlemen's Steakhouse. Baked and I were fighting in line but we started to behave when the cops showed up! We started dinner with Lamb Fries. They were yum yum yummy! They also had some awesome steaks there!
86: For dessert we went to Pop's! It gave everyone a chance to try out the wig's and glasses too!
87: Later that night everyone had to try on my boots. Trina had a bit of trouble staying on her feet! Baked got his hair worked on by the kids!
88: Day 18 - Oklahoma City, OK to Winterset, IA July 11th - 10am to 10pm Miles traveled - 530 | We stopped in Wichita, Kansas to meet up with Tawnjun and her daughter for lunch. It was a bit hot so while we were waiting for them Jebus and NeanderTroll cooled off for a bit in a fountain. I even had to go in at one point to rescue NeanderTroll! For lunch we ate at the Whiskey Creek Wood Fire Grill.
89: After lunch we visited some sites in Wichita, a memorial to soda fountain sit-ins, a horse made out of car bumpers and the Keeper of the Plains statue. Tawnjun was the last new OLS'er we met on the trip. We made our way on to Iowa as the sun went down.
90: Day 19 - Winterset, IA to Home! July 12th - 10am to 6:38pm Miles traveled - 445 | Road Trip Statistics Total miles - 6,947 Total states - 14 Total OLS'ers - 23 - 16 we had never met before States visited the most - NV, IA, NE - each twice OLS'er met more than once - Panda, Xan Total pics taken on the trip - over 4,000! Highest speed - 90.4 mph Average speed - 79.4 mph Highest temp - 115 - Death Valley Number of attractions visited - over 75 Biggest OLS gtg - Salt Lake City, UT State spent the most time in - CA - 6 days State spent the least time in - CO - about 15 minutes Most big rig trucks seen - FedEx Longest time on the road - 18 hours Shortest time on the road - 2 hours
91: Miscellaneous Notes I think I took more pics than Baked did on this trip - a first for me! --- Baked is addicted to Sonics! --- UPS trucks are hard to spot on the road - FedEx ones are really easy to spot! Just an observation on my part, I noticed while we visited many rest stops in several states NV rest stops were the worst - smelly and dirty AZ rest stops - most seemed to be closed IA rest stops seemed to have the strangest rule - NO SMOKING ANYWHERE BUT INSIDE YOUR VEHICLE For some of the pics the Funyuns are hard to find - but they are there! We played a game on this road trip - in honor of the new road trip vehicle. We played the Nissan Cube version of 'Slug Bug'. After the first couple of Cube sightings I changed the name to 'See a Cube and beat the crap outta Greg game'! Since Baked did the driving I couldn't hit him in fear of causing an accident. Baked could - and did at times - hit as hard as he wanted to without that fear. We're often asked which attraction or road trip is the best and I always reply that I don't have a favorite. Each road trip we've taken has been AWESOME in one way or another. Everybody we've met along the way has given us memories that we'll never forget! And finally, the thank you part. Baked and I are always amazed at the response we get when we've posted a thread asking for ideas and suggestions for an upcoming road trip. It's because of y'all that the road trips are as fun as they are! Baked and I would like to thank the following OLS'ers: Xan and her hubby Brian for letting us crash at your place, for letting us hang out, for the dinner and for the treats! Sparkle and her daughter Emily, Sparkles bf Desi and Emily's friend Madison for hangin' out with us in Des Moines! Beanie (DJsPrincess) for joining us for dinner in Des Moines! Dallasdol and family for letting us crash at your place, for the laundry facilities and mornin' coffee, for showing us around SLC and for organizing the SLC area GTG! John1948 and family for hangin' out with us in SLC! MrBamaAl, NoWhammies and daughters, SLCRose and hubby, Cat and Hubby for joining us at the SLC area GTG! Tinamarina71 and hubby Chris for letting us crash at your place, for dinner, for showing us around Reno, for the mornin' coffee and for the treats! Panda & Mark for letting us crash at your place, for lunch (hugs and thanks to Wanda for guiding us to some great food!), for showing us around San Francisco, for the mornin' coffee and for hangin' out with us in Las Vegas! Tamo and Paul and daughter Jessica for letting us crash at your place, for showing us around town, for dinner and the treats! Christel for joining us for lunch! Lissie and her mom (LVVegas) and dad for hangin' out with us and showing us a bit of Los Angeles and for joining us for lunch! JesterPester and family for letting us crash at your place, for the laundry facilities and the mornin' coffee! ColJim (Joanne and Jim) for the hotel room in Vegas and the tickets to a show, for the lunch and for hangin' out with us! StanzaRae and family for letting us hang out awhile, for showing us around town, the beer and the treats! Airalynn and family for letting us hang out awhile, for joining us for dinner and the treats! Hopeful Winnings and family for the hotel room, for the dinner and for hangin' out with us! Bobbydean and daughter for meeting up with us and for the treat! Trina and family for letting us crash at your place, for joining us for dinner and dessert, for the laundry facilities, for the mornin' coffee and the treats! Tell Dallas we'll be back again soon for another 'John & Greg Holiday'! Tawnjun and daughter for the lunch and for hangin' out with us! There aren't enough words to express our gratitude for the kindness and generosity each of you has shown us. It was AWESOME to hang out with old friends and to meet new ones! Y'all are the true definition of why OLS is the BESTEST website - Y'ALL ROCK!
92: 2010 Lucky 21 Convention September 2nd - 5th Bloomington, Minnesota | After our traditional stop at Kelly's Kitchen we arrived in Bloomington where we hooked up with Brent, Nicole, KB and Panda for some drinks....Panda had two!
93: On Friday Nesta came to speak to everyone at the convention! Below are some of the lucky winners from Friday and Saturday...Nicole, Panda and Ked's dw.
94: Saturday night was the banquet! But Baked and I slipped off to the MN State Fair to see KISS!
95: It was a beautiful night at the fair! We started with some great fair food before heading to the concert!
96: The concert was AWESOME! I think it was the best KISS concert yet.
97: The Lucky 21 Convention in Bloomington rocked! See y'all next year!


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Month: September 2010
A then and now
My babies make me laugh. Especially their funny faces and little round heads and fuzzy hair and bright big eyes and squishy cheeks.
(Thanks Princess for finding the "then" picture!)
Life in the fast lane
Well hello world. I would love to say that my lack of blogging is because I'm going to bed at 9:00 pm at night. But no, it's only because I just haven't felt like blogging. Part writer's block, part just don't care and watching ridiculous reality tv is more fun.
We haven't been doing anything out of the ordinary lately. I think I shared that Pat was sick last week. Very very sick. Probably the sickest he's ever been. By Friday he was finally feeling a little better. And then Sunday right before church he threw his back out. I was feeling very overwhelmed and was not a very nice wife and got crabby at him. Because of course it was all his fault that he was sick for a week and now it was his fault that he hurt his back. A few minutes later Angel pulled a full glass of milk off the counter and spilled it all over.
Let me just say that there is a time and place to cry over spilled milk.
When Pat has put his back out in the past it usually means he's in bed for 2 days. But thankfully this time he bounced right back (after a long back rub from me and a hot shower). I think he was able to bounce back so quickly because he's lost so much weight (25 pounds!).
My weight lost has kinda stalled lately. I haven't been exercising much lately, mostly because with Pat sick it's nearly impossible to find the time. One night after the kids were in bed I took both dogs and went out for a run but it was dark and still a little creepy. Plus my lack of motivation to blog seems to have carried over into many areas of my life, including exercising. Thankfully I've done pretty good with my eating so even though I haven't been exercising much I haven't gained anything. (But we'll see if that's still true in a few days).
Because of Pat being sick we ended up not doing the 5K last Saturday. Plus the trail was flooded and so they decided to just run it on a track. We decided to do the 2 mile walk so we could all do it together and that was still fun.
We're on week two of our new schedule for the kids. Monday and Tuesday they go to daycare and Wednesday-Friday they go to Grama Barb's. We're working through food for Caleb because alot of what they make at daycare has eggs in it. We might end up having to bring some of his own food, which will be ok so we know for sure what he's eating.
We've started volunteering with our youth group again. Love that! Before the babies came the youth group was a huge part of our life and so it's fun to get involved again. And our couples small group starts this Sunday. Can't wait to see how God will use that to encourage us all!
I got a settlement check in the mail the other day. $2.84. Pretty amazing, huh. I told Pat that I'd been praying to get a check in the mail so we could get out of our debt hole. I guess I need to pray a little more specifically. On the other hand I also got a bill for $800 from our hospital. Because it turns out the tests I had in the summer for the chest pain I was having (am having) weren't covered by insurance. Isn't that special.
Well I think that's all that's happening in the fast lane called life. I think I'll go have a snack and get motivated to exercise tomorrow.
One last worthless item. Have you seen the preview for the movie Catfish? Creepy! That's all.
First came an Angel, then came a Baby
(and then came chaos. just kidding. kinda.)
When I was pregnant with Caleb my mom wrote a song about our two miracle babies. At the time I didn't post it on my blog because I wasn't using the kids' real names. Last night mom was here visiting and her and the kids started singing and playing the song and I was able to capture it on video.
So thankful for my Angel and my Baby.

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Creating a literature review map is a very useful graphical technique that helps you to visualize connections and relative relationships between things. Mapping shows the associations between different literature and can help to identify issues such as proximity and connections in terms of ideas and findings. After analyzing a paper or some other literature using critical techniques, literature mapping can show how it fits in with other literature that has already been analyzed. Literature mapping involves identifying the key concepts in the literature and how each paper or piece of material fits into this overall conceptual map.
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Montreal-based writer Josip Novakovich is among 10 finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction.
A list of mostly unknown writers was announced Thursday for the £60,000 ($94,950) prize, which is given for a body of work.
He is joined on the list by American Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Orange Prize and National Book Critics Prize, and the only writer to have been nominated for the prize before.
"It feels great," he said in an interview with CBC on Friday.
"It was a total surprise and I still don't have any idea who nominated me. This is a big boost for my work when I need it most, because I had difficulty finding a publisher for my new novel."
Novakovich is the author of the novel April Fool's Day, which appeared in ten languages and recently completed the serial novel Russian Doubles.
He has written three essay collections, including Plum Brandy: Croatian Journeys and Apricots from Chernobyl and has three story collections — Infidelities: Stories of Warand Lust, Yolk and Salvation and other Disasters.
The prize jury described his stories as "darkly comic." He is known in particular for his depiction of violence and for his writing about the Yugoslav war and its atrocities, according to the prize jury.
A creative writing instructor at Concordia University in Montreal, Novakovich also has written two textbooks about fiction and non-fiction writing.
Novakovich lived in Croatia until he was 20. He was educated at Vassar College, Yale University and University of Texas at Austin and taught at Pennsylvania State University before coming to Montreal in 2009.
Novakovich has previously won a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship and an American Book Award.
The Man Booker International Prize is open to authors of all nationalities whose work is available in English. There is no submission process — nominees are selected by a panel of five judges.
The other finalists:
- U.R. Ananthamurthy (India).
- Aharon Appelfeld (Israel).
- Lydia Davis (U.S.).
- Intizar Husain (Pakistan).
- Yan Lianke (China).
- Marie NDiaye (France).
- Marilynne Robinson (U.S.).
- Vladimir Sorokin (Russia).
- Peter Stamm (Switzerland).
Previous winners of the award include Nigeria's Chinua Achebe and Philip Roth of the United States. Canadian short story writer Alice Munro won the award in 2009.
This year's winner will be announced in London, England on May 22.
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The ospreys in Manton Bay continue to go through life at a steady pace. 33 is catching plenty of fish, and both birds have been bringing in little bits of nest material and sticks, to ensure the nest is looking its best and is comfortable for when the chicks arrive! Hatching is now only just over two weeks away! In the blink of an eye the incubation period has flown by, and the birds have already undergone three weeks of it. They're doing a brilliant job of incubating, one or the other of them is constantly on the eggs, and sometimes both of them are!
Here is the tail end of a fish delivery yesterday!
Thanks to work experience student, James, we now know what proportions of fish species 33 has been bringing in recently. James analysed the first month's worth of monitoring forms, and created this lovely pie chart showing the species of fish 33 has caught. The most numerous is trout, of course, as that's the species Anglian Water fill the reservoir with each year.
Today there was a bit of excitement when an intruding osprey flew over the bay. 33 had come to sit by Maya and was mantling slightly, looking skywards. After a while, Maya became unsettled too and rose to her feet, mantling alongside 33 as they both looked up. We then saw the silhouette of an osprey fly over the nest on the wide angle camera, heading east. As soon as it was a safe distance away, Maya settled back onto the eggs and normal business resumed.
Later on, there was another intrusion from an osprey that came much closer to the nest than the previous one! 33 had left the bay, and from the visitor centre an osprey was spotted flying back towards Manton Bay, at the same time as Maya was looking rather concerned on the nest. Then 33 flew in, and almost immediately another osprey swooped past the nest. The tail of the intruder can be seen in this video below.
The pair defended the nest admirably, and it wasn't long before the intruder disappeared, leaving Maya and 33 in peace.
In other news, spring is in full swing in Gibbet's Gorse on the Lyndon Nature Reserve, just look at these photographs of the bluebells that are carpeting the floor in the woodland! Thanks to Paul Stammers for these amazing shots.


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As a student at Moscow University, I was part of an experiment conducted by the head of the English Department. After our first semester and examination session, she insisted that those who got straight A's should be enlisted into the same academic group. Nobody asked our opinion. Thus when we returned from our winter break we learned that we were now members of an elite group of eight students.
This meant a number of important changes in our life. First of all the four first-year groups were reshuffled; some of our new friends were now in other groups. Secondly our whole curriculum was changed; we now had a weekly lesson with a native speaker of English. Most importantly, the second semester clearly showed that we still remained individuals with different abilities; after the summer examination session four of us remained straight A students while four received several B marks each. They bitterly complained that if they remained in their former groups they might have gotten A's too, and yet they had no wish to change anything, due to the sheer prestige of being in that high level group. There was a healthy competition among us, and naturally some envy.
I believe the experience was my first inkling and later a clear understanding of this simple fact: we always teach multi-level differentiated classes. As a teacher, I followed my own family's and my very good role models' examples. When we come into a new classroom we should acknowledge the fact that every student has different abilities, interests and needs as a universal truth. The level does not directly correspond to age; the curriculum does not necessarily reflect the children's and adults' expectations. The educational authorities guidelines do not always help; sometimes (gasp) they turn out to be a hindrance. "At the final exams each student must show…" This is more or less what we teachers get from the ministry of education; they are very sensible rules and regulations, we understand the demands and the criteria. And then there is life. A British colleague of mine who teaches English in Japan tells me that each year, he needs to come up with one answer to the perpetual question: "Why do we need this subject? How useful will it be in my future profession?"
We exchange ideas on motivation and an individualized approach to teaching and learning.
Step 1. Know your class. Check the age, the level, the family situation if possible. Take a look at their grades in other subjects. Try to envision what their future may be like.
Step 2. Ask questions during your very first lesson with a new class. What do they expect? What are their interests? How much schooling did they have previously, if at all? Do they understand why they are to learn English? NB: it is better to take notes and not to provide answers at once.
Step 3. Make a list. Can your new students converse in English or are they beginner level? Mark each student's skills; someone may speak fluently but find difficulty reading, another may hear well but not write coherently, and so on. If you identify at least one person who is confident in all the four skills, he or she may become your most reliable (but not the only one) member of the class.
Step 4. To ensure everybody's participation, bring in a set of differentiated tasks and be sure to always have extras in your folder. Your best pupil will definitely need more exercises than the rest of the class; your weakest one may make a leap when you least expect it.
Step 5. To motivate all your students, use this simple trick. Think back to your own young years. Why did you choose ELT as your profession and occupation? What made it so interesting for you? Share with your class. Ask them if they agree with you, if any of them have the same motivation you had.
Step 6. Doing a project is always helpful. This may be a class activity; it does not necessarily involve any extra time or a venture into international internet projects. If you have a beginner or a very weak class, you may for instance suggest that you create a Progress Chart together. It may be presented as a poster calendar, with large squares for every day or week into which you may write various achievements. "Learned the new vocabulary". "Did audio test with zero mistakes". "Wrote essays".
Step 7. Allow your students to demonstrate their abilities to the class by giving them individual tasks for a final lesson on any topic. Someone is interested in machinery? They may talk about the ways foods and goods are transported, or about airplanes and trains, or tourism. Another person likes animals. Let them talk about pets, or animal shelters, or safaris. The possibilities are endless. While not all your class may be interested in sports or music or movies, they will listen to their classmate explaining why he or she is.
Step 8. The simplest and the most complicated. If you have to teach a group of adults for whom learning English is a necessary requirement, simply tell them they must do it if they want to get a job or a status. You will notice that they may protest or even try to tell you that they cannot learn a foreign language. Sympathize but be firm. One thing always works for me: never criticize; always encourage.
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People often say that they are planning a camping trip, yet it often becomes clear that there is surprisingly little planning involved. It seems that many people look upon camping trips as something that should be prepared for only at the very last minute.
There is undoubtedly a cultural influence here. We often associate camping and outdoor pursuits with a certain sense of adventure. It almost seems natural to think that adventure should be associated with spur of the moment decisions and a sudden, great flurry of activity.
Those of us who like to travel as a family, however, know that it's not always quite so simple to leave things until the last possible moment. We know that there's a lot more planning involved if we want to make sure that we really have a great holiday.
This helps explain why families will often put a lot more effort into planning their camping trips. In a sense, they can be seen as leading the way.
Why is planning is so important in this instance? Surely it's more fun to leave things until the very last moment? The problem is that a camping trip often throws a number of problems and issues at us. We can deal with these if we had planned for them and have the appropriate camping equipment with us.
But the failure to plan could lead us woefully lacking in equipment and accessories. This could really ruin our trip and may even have more horrendous consequences. That's why it is so important that you should think about planning your trip prior to your departure.
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Domestic Terrorists and the War on Women
Domestic Terrorists and the War on Women
Rachel CohenMonday,30 November 2015
I'm sitting here watching coverage about last Friday's Planned Parenthood shooting (starting to feel like a broken record here), and it's becoming sadly clear that we won't win this fight without some serious change.
Anyone listening to or watching coverage of this week's edition of Good Job Gun Nuts might notice that it's being called a "clinic shooting," a "Colorado shooting," and not what it really was – a physical attack on Planned Parenthood, an organization that has been under attack by politicians and religious groups this entire year. To assume that this act is not a direct result of fomenting inaccurate rage that has been building amongst uneducated and un-empathetic people living in this country may be presumptuous, but to assume that women who get abortions are baby murderers seems equally so.
The focus in the media reports the day following the attack was on the police officer who died. The focus was on how great the first responders were. The focus was on everything besides the high likelihood that this was a RELIGIOUS/POLITICAL EXTREMISM MOTIVATED MURDER BY A TERRORIST WITH A GUN.
Hmm…where have we heard that before?
Where is the use of the term "Radical Christianity?"
Where are the profile pictures being changed to PP?
Where are the GOP candidates tearing out their hair?
Oh, I guess we should just assume the location is a coincidence? Or maybe just infer the shooter's motive from where it took place? Let's take our time before jumping to any conclusions?
The statements coming from officials in Colorado Springs are unsurprising given the fact that the area has seen its fair share of gun violence recently: "this happens, and it will keep happening…this could have happened anywhere." Except it could have been prevented, and it doesn't have to happen anywhere.
When we are discussing Friday's events, the events that occurred in this evangelical town that loves guns and hates people who sell dead babies, it is no longer enough to say "this happens." Of course it will keep happening in a place where 911 dispatchers hang up on callers who report people walking down the street with automatic weapons.
But we should definitely not talk about gun control, right guys? How else are the people of towns like evangelical Colorado Springs going to survive these constant threats from people who steal virgin babies and process them for hair dye?
Well, I guess they could try beefing up police departments? Training police officers for military grade weapons? 9mm guns can't take on AKs! It's a domestic arms race, yippee!
I don't know what to think, but I've been watching coverage on every station besides Fox because I've been through enough, thanks, and I now know that the officer who was killed was a champion ice skater, a devout evangelical, worked at the UC campus for awhile, and his friends are very sad.
I also know now that there is a history of this kind of violence in Colorado at clinics like these. The state that has some of the most relaxed gun laws and is one of the only states to recreationally legalize marijuana apparently draws the line at women's rights, and that's just the way it is, okay?
We've arrived at this point because it has become politically expected to refer to women's bodies as abstract concepts, and there is NO discussion of what this means for the future women of America.
See there's the thing. All this talk about women's bodies in the abstract makes women's bodies abstract. I can torture myself based on things I've done with my body because I have sullied this abstract concept of Woman's Body that today's sociopolitical dialogue promotes. This thing that belongs to someone else.
In the same way, some crazy White Man who feels threatened by my body(?), has no qualms attacking clinics that help women's health. Why? These are not people; these are not patients, nor medical professionals, these are "murderers" taking away the Christian White Man's ability to say what happens to the abstract Woman's Body. It's why we allow government officials to play games with funding programs like these, and it's why we'll continue to lose the fight against domestic terrorism and equal freedoms.
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Steve Davis previews a tough away day at Northampton against the Sky Blues
Steve Davis expects to see Coventry City's deadly partnership of Leon Clarke and Callum Wilson back in action against his Crewe Alexandra side this weekend. Both Clarke and Wilson missed the club's FA Cup tie at Hartlepool United last weekend but their captain Carl Baker did score in a 1-1 draw at Victoria Park.
Crewe scouts attended the game and Davis is expecting another tough game against the Sky Blues. The two clubs know each other well enough after four fixtures last season in League One and the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. Crewe managed to win three of the four but Davis says that won't count or anything this season.
Steve told crewealex.net: "We watched Coventry at Hartlepool last weekend and without their two main strikers they played a different system. I am sure Clarke and Wilson will be back to lead the line against us.
"We know all about Leon from last season and Callum has come into the side and don't really well. They are more than a handful and we will have to defend very well to contain them. They have a hatful of goals and if your strikers are in double figures at this stage of the season then you always have a chance.
"They are the not the only players they have though and I have always liked Baker. They have some very good young players and the experienced pros help them. They are very competitive and are in the same mould as their manager (Steven Pressley). They work hard or each other.
"We did face them four times last season but it is different teams at a different ground now, so that doesn't count for too much, although the players will have confidence from the fact that we have beaten one of the biggest clubs in our league before. "


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Coast Guard finished in eighth place with 214 points. RPI won the meet with 55 points followed by Middlebury with 77 points.
Mooney crossed the line in 21:35.8 to beat the next closest runner, Brittany Bowan; 2015 All-American, by 20 seconds. Her time tops her school record of 22:02 set two weeks ago at the Purple Valley Invitational.
Junior Anita Green was next finished for the bears in 36th place (23:42.2) while senior Rachel Burchill was the third Bear across the line in 53rd place (24:06.3).
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The city of Encinitas won't participate in the Encinitas Union School District's effort to auction off the former Pacific View school in March, City Council members decided Wednesday night, but if the auction falls through, the city might pitch a sales-tax increase in order to buy the land.
The council declined to submit a bid for the proposed auction, saying the district's $9.5 million bid requirement was far too pricey. But, in a 3-2 vote, with Councilwoman Kristin Gaspar and Councilman Mark Muir opposed, the council agreed to explore raising the city's sales tax rate to fund new civic projects, including transforming the old school property into a city arts center.
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Muir said the council should do a better job of cost-cutting, instead of exploring new taxing methods. The former city fire chief said he thought the estimated $2.9 million price tag for the Moonlight Beach lifeguard tower was one area where the city should cut back.
"There's a thing called fiscal discipline and that's what we're lacking here as we go through this (year's budget process)," the councilman said during the council's review of proposed capital projects.
Increasing the city's sales tax rate would require two-thirds majority voter approval. In order to get the proposal on the November General Election ballot, the city needs to submit paperwork to the county Registrar of Voters by Aug. 8, City Clerk Kathy Hollywood said.
Encinitas has a sales tax rate of 8 percent, while Vista's rate is 8.5 percent. Encinitas council members agreed to look into their rate hike options Wednesday night, but didn't decide what the higher rate might be. Kranz said he could see going with a .5 percent increase.
The city now collects about $11.7 million in sales tax revenue a year. If the city's tax rate was 8.5 percent, it could receive an additional $5 million, the city's finance department reported.
Encinitas Union School District officials hope to resolve the Pacific View situation long before fall election season arrives. They're planning to auction off the land in late March, and are inviting both nonprofit organizations and private developers to submit bids.
The school district has been trying to dispose of its 2.8-acre, property for the last decade. The former school occupies a prime coastal hilltop spot along downtown's Third Street, but the land's current public/semi-public zoning limits how it can be used. The district wants the city to approve a rezoning request that would allow homes on the land, but so far that has failed to win city approval.
In December, the city offered to pay $4.3 million for the property. The district's board rejected that offer and decided to pursue a public auction where the minimum allowable bid will be $9.5 million. After they heard about the auction proposal, City Council members asked the city attorney to look into whether the city could force the district to sell them the land through the eminent domain process. The city's legal team advised against that move, saying the city couldn't do it in time to stop the auction and it wasn't a good financial move. Encinitas could end up owing far more than the city's prior $4.3 million offer for the land, they said.


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