Today, the largest populations of San Diego mesa mint are found on Miramar Naval Air Station. “Driving by there on 1-15 on a warm day in April, you can smell a pleasant, minty aroma,”
Thursday, August 25
Thursday, August 18
“The Ranch sprawls all over. There’s no sense of it being an island. Here it’s gated, and the homes are close enough together to have some camaraderie, a sense of neighborhood.”
“Once I rode 120 miles to Calexico from San Diego.” I didn’t elaborate about the Calexico ride. If I had, I would have admitted that it occurred fourteen years ago and had so exhausted me that I returned by bus the next day.
Thursday, August 11
At the Thirty-second Street Naval Station, the instructors made us conduct a search on the bottom of San Diego Bay at night without lights. There was no moon, and we crawled along the bottom muck in total darkness.
One, I remember, was six months pregnant, her belly really sticking out. “Yeah, I can feel my baby moving, so what,” she said. “I don’t care if they tear his arms and legs out.”
Thursday, August 4
It’s not that fajitas are hard to prepare. When the meat is cooked, you transfer it to a surface where you cut it into strips. “But we don’t have the facility or the time to hand-strip the meat.”