More California Pictures

Here is round 2 of our journey to California.

Welcome to Mexico, we drove straight in with no problems at all.

Tijuana was setup kind of on a grid. At large intersections they had roundabouts rather than stoplights and in the center there were a bunch of statues. This is Abraham Lincoln because, as we all know, he freed the Mexicans......

Not only do they still have payphones all over in Mexico, but they are also technicolor!

This is the Tijuana visitor's center. It's a pretty cool building and we my first real concept of us being in a different country. Shit was completely in Spanish and I had no idea what was going on. Thanks for nothing 11 years of lower school Spanish classes.

 When Chris and I were tooling around Tijuana on foot we came across a super sketch-looking Mexi-circus. These were some camels that easily accessible for street pedestrians so I took a photo.

Deep in the distance you can see the outline of San Diego. Mexico is in the foreground.

Mexico was rocking some serious hills which were quite attractive.

Chris and I took a wrong turn and ended up on "Scenic Road". Scenic indeed.

 After our wrong turn we just kinda went with it and then we noticed this cool stadium so we just went ahead and drove towards it.

Turns out it is a bullfighting stadium that is only in use during the summer months.

After admiring the stadium, we finally noticed this large wall right behind us..... you know, the one that divides Mexico from US.  Sidenote: there was a ton of graffiti on the wall with various forms of anti-separatist themes. This is why graffiti is illegal. Everyone isn't Banksy. Any jackass can quote bad Robert Frost poems out of context. You're not cool quit trying. /Aside.

And somehow we accidentally stumbled upon the US-Mexican border and a monument to delineate that invisible line. Way to deface a 100+ yr old monument assbag with a marker.

 The US side of the border monument. Significantly more shopworn.

The actual line of separation.

Me being in 2 places at once.

 Chris standing in 2 places at once.

Some more fun Mexican hills with cows atop them.

The other view of Mexico as we saw it. Hillsides were either picturesque or jam-packed with houses and shacks favella style.

One of the many stands dealing goods to people stuck in forever traffic. I didn't get any pictures of the guys with more outrageous items. My apologies.

Adios amigos. Going back home to the good old US of A.....Except it took us a full hour to cross the border from this point, which was a half-mile from the border crossing.

Our border crossing agent. She was quite nice and we actually talked to her about Savannah. Apparently the Police Academy she attended was located in in like Brunswick or something and she was a big fan of Savannah which is when we then informed her we were from Savannah.

This is a picture of the San Diego skyline as seen from the top of Mt. Soledad. San Diego. Drink it in. It always goes down smooth.

Me looking super quality while escaping from the impromptu spelunking session at the rocks pieces of San Diego. I can't not look high in photos apparently.

 A photo of how large the overpasses are in San Diego. Just massive.

San Diego zoo pictures. Komodo dragon trying to escape.

That's a really cool Opotamus.

Natural camoflauge. I can't tell where one begins and the other ends.

This is a to-scale sculpture of both a fully grown Polar bear and a baby bear as well as a newborn cub in the foreground. Apparently they regularly grow to 10 feet. Originally I was a proponent of punching any wild animal that attacks you straigh in the genitals as no one likes that and it would surely make them think twice about confronting my manliness. Sadly though, the polar bear would probably maul me heinously before I could get my low blows in so instead I'm pretty sure the best way to tackle a polar bear is to bob, weave, and work the body.

Tanner and I rounded the polar bear corner to find Chris awaiting us as such.

Tanner and Hipster Seal coolin it. Hipster Seal is now cooler than all the other seals.

A real life polar bear. They fed him carrots. I was unaware that polar bears crave carrots but if so perhaps more of them should move away from the Arctic Circle as I imagine ice is not the optimal soil for agriculture.

The polar bear swimming around. It was awesome. For whatever reason, after eating what must have been a delicious carrot, the giant ass polar bear made a running leap and dove out into his pool.

Blitzen's goes on vacation to San Diego after Christmas.

 The zoo had a bunch of sculptures of extinct American animals built to actual size. Of course I wanted to ride one. Chris and Tanner called me a child... Sorry for party rocking.

The cat was straight up prowling along the fence line.

This elephant was separated while they were cleaning him off or something. He responded by defecating everywhere. Take that zookeepers.

2 Elephants!

3 Elephants!

This panda didn't know Kung-Fu. It looked like it only knew how to eat and be dirty.

Giraffes are super awkward. Look how knobbly their whole bodies are. They are the pale computer geeks of the animal kingdoms.

Rhinos are cool and these 2 were either playing, fighting, or attempting to mate not really too sure which one but we got to see them corner each other in their pens.

Arctic Fox. They had a dog pen where there were various wild dogs that were paired with domesticated dogs. It apparently calms them down to have a domesticated friend. Like those girls you know who are super prudish but have a whore friend whom they can vicariously live through, only the exact opposite.

This peacock escaped its prison and was just struttign around the zoo like a boss.

Orangutan swinging in action.

Give this guy a trapeze and watch what happens.

Damn dirty ape.


That is it for now. However, I do have a specialty video of Tanner's first stand-up comedy routine in front of a live audience that I will be posting soon so stay posted. Adios.


-Jed