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| Camping on Beacon Street |
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| A shopping cart for every corner |
The start time varies but it is usually before sunrise. Yesterday Happy the GSD got two squeaky toys and decided to start squeaking at 4 AM so today we got an early start.
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| Behind main Post Office |
We encounter many things early before sunrise such as raccoons, dumpster divers, feral and stray cats and maybe a coyote. The homeless often sleep in the marina on benches but lately we have not seen any here.
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| Remember the local market |
Each day we head off in a different direction from the previous day's dog walk. This morning we headed north up the hill towards 22nd Street and then down into the park. A lot of money was spent building 22nd Street Park and I am sure they spend a lot more maintaining it but not much time is spent picking up the crap that is left behind. There are a few homeless that live there, one crazy on a bench and several that stay in the bushes out of sight.
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| Remember the Local Bar |
We go through the park and reenter the streets and sidewalks at Harbor and Crescent. We then go up Gulch Street (yes that is a real name) to Beacon Street continuing north towards downtown. Beacon Street at the Post Office used to be the homeless main drag BUT (capital letters) they are moving away and we don't know where to. The city has been trying hard to move them for several years and lately the homeless are going. The new construction of a park by the Post office, plus the streets being changed for a different route to Ports of Call must be doing something.
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| Car camping |
San Pedro has no shortage of dive bars, probably more liquor stores that all of Southern Orange County and a downtown. Downtown is a mystery where many businesses are trying very hard to make a buck. The Street Cars used to run up and down the Harbor Front but have stopped while the streets are be changed. Every Friday and during the weekends a free shuttle bus runs around downtown and out to Cabrillo Beach and back.
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| Extra Bonus Points Homeless next to Port Police Sub Station |
Most of Ports of Call have been torn down recently and since this is Mother's Day many visitors will be quite surprised to find that where they ate last time is now a vacant lot with a view of the Main Channel.
If you like Tug Boats and what Kid doesn't (myself included) East of Downtown San Pedro is the LA Harbor Main Channel and a Grand Central Terminal for Tug Boats.
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| What I want for Christmas |
I watched a pod of Dolphins this morning while two tugs prepared a ship to move out to sea and the two dogs quietly waited.
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| Dolphins going to Mothers Day Brunch |
Finally the German Shepherd started whining and we had to move along.
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| casting off the stern dock line |
The old street to Ports of Call is closed but we walk that way anyway tracing our southern route back to our boat. The trip is about five miles.
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| Hooking up travel trailer |
Yesterday I rode my bicycle to the Ghetto Vons at 13th and Gaffey and didn't have my retarded smart phone with me or any other camera and missed a classic shot at the bus stop where three passengers were waiting on the bus bench while a person was laying under the next bench apparently passed out. New rule: Always be camera ready with the lens cap off.
An Asian Princess walked by my boat this morning with Golden sandals on (always be ready with lens cap off)
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