California no more say that again......The Zum,Zum venture floats onwards...(Part 11 of 17)

Hello All,
   Well there is most certainly something very odd going on here?, Right, if you didn't all ready notice there is for sure something very different going on in my logs of this California venture of a road trip? you would think that after seeing great things like a comic book shop in Dublin with this guy named

Bryce Henrikson which is my nephew as if you didn't already know....and with him and my sister Kylie Byrd we saw this famous little ol  jail

 

referenced  as a place known as Alcatraz on a off shore Island of San Francisco , then my folks and I started a long road trip through the state. With stops in Hollywood where it's got a good fifteen blocks full of celebrities

also besides movie stars and television ones we saw many music groups

                                

if you notice I threw in Rick Dees who happens to be a radio DJ from the eighties, and plays those very musicians that make those songs. We also just yesterday went to the Zoo here in San Diego and saw many different animals

these are just three, I didn't mention at all from the post of yesterday. We also have had other adventures along the way that you can scroll through each in greater detail. Earlier this morning, we got on a cruise ship after leaving our hotel we caught a cab and it took us to boarding pier here we are in the waiting area

after having our passports checked. We are using  our computers for the  last time for the next three days. After going and doing the routine know your lifeboat station rules 

, we set off for our one day stop in Vancouver Canada. Here is what leaving port was like 

just like a few years ago we had entertainment after diner like when we were doing the Disney Cruise with Kylie and Bryce back in twenty twelve when were going to Alaska and one port stop in Vancouver where mom and Kylie did shopping or something for we only had a few hours at the time and I stayed with Bryce, while Chuck did his thing of reading. Anyway what all that was really leading up to was our choice of seeing the entertainment which tonight is a musician and comedian but I for the life of me don't recall his name but here are some photos of him

,hard at work. Oh and each morning the crew put into every other elevator a rug with the day of the week on it and look here is the one 

for today.   

       To Be Continued....

The fast pacing of the Zum,Zum vacation Part , Oh where are thou still even today on this trip???, yet the number of this entry is???

It is time to go to the ZOO....
        Now I know most of you are very anxious to know if I am near my actual home computer to write today's very entry so at least one thing can be explained? I will get to that matter at the tail end of this one...... I am also sure that I may have some fans of the last summer's ZOO television series and I can be honest that  you won't find out anything about it's upcoming second year later this forthcoming  June. ( I'm thinking I saw that as the airing month before leaving the home base known as Richland Washington for this trek across California....) Yesterday as you will impact your noggin to reading this I left off with talking about a part of San Diego named Old Town and gave you a small bit of it's very past. even about this creepy place seen here 

oh I didn't mean the outside of the gift shop but I meant was the Whaley haunted house which only I got from a side on view instead of a head long shot, or rather head on is what I mean. As we went just a few block from one part of Old Town to another I did catch these

"Old Bullies" that I guess did die in their work of trying to keep visitors away from coming to town and steal their treasures. This was really a gift shop venue itself, which was just across the street from the Whaley haunted museum. My folks and I were going to have originally gone to either the San Diego SeaWorld today, but after comparing price rates and seeing that it like our intention once in Los Angeles was going to be Universal Studios and the Harry Porter experience seen advertisement here 

we choose the Hollywood Walk of Fame,  as I mentioned when we were back in Hollywood if you need to refresh  yourself of that just jump back a couple of entries as number seven and eight. The main lot of difference was Chuck had to change those two parts while in Cuenca, Ecuador on his computer while planning this trip but, while here in San Diego we went to the San Diego Zoo and yes it still had lots of children of course it as well had plenty of really neat living lifeforms that are not well like you and I. When we got to the Zoo we got on a bus first and took a tour that way, here are some images

while on the bus itself. Then we got in one good thing that all three of us needed, which is a whole lot of walking. We saw so many very unique animals paired together like Zebras and donkeys.
  

     
Yet the coolest pairing was this of a dog and a cougar like the ones seen here

Pretty cool yet pretty Strange at the same time I mean with a normal cat I can see a dog both not and getting along when in the same house hold of any family, but a wild cat like a bob cat  this is more on the astounding side of getting to know your animal neighbor....in the end it does work as you too can see. We also saw cute animals like this Koala bear

to these very pink birds that we saw twice but they are not near each other and I think I don't have to mention as well that you can see this kind of bird on the opening credits of a certain television series with two cops

named Crockett and Tubbs and the show is made up of two words better known as MV. Yet these birds seen here are mostly known to be in another state called Florida. Ok so the clues are PINK and the state that was the twenty seventh state to join the United States? 
   

If you said "Flamingos" your right. Then we also saw some would you believe it if I told you some polar bears

expect these ones were not on a Island with Jack, Kate, Locke, Sawyer, or Hurley on the television series called "LOST". While at the Zoo as well  we all in a way got to pose with the animals too Say that again I know that is what's going through your head as you read these words as I'm typing them... but here is what I really mean! Chuck

and his Elephant. Nancy or as I know her as mom

, with her Eagle. And then of course no matter what I can not whatsoever forget to post my animal that I posed with and here it is Matt with my

pal the Polar Bear. The San Diego Zoo this very year is got a huge celebration going on because this year it is celebrating one hundred years of being a great attraction for millions of people to come and see from all around the world in fact when we started I got this image

,as we got to the gates to pay our way in to see it all. Now there are a couple of things I have to get out of the way before saying To Be Continued and I know you are all wondering what I meant at the start of this by What is the one thing that needs explaining? First we have to deal with our Chess match up of where were back in last month I had switched out  Montgomery Scott of the original Star Trek series for the Android seen here 

called Data from the first television series some eighteen years later that started with the episode called "Encounter at Farpoint"  as it's pilot to STAR TREK THE NEXT GRENERATION which far surpassed it's successor known as Star Trek. The Data Character was much like the original series character Spock (Where will he fall on this list before the fifty anniversary of Star Trek itself which is September eight of this year), who knows? Both are meant to being viewing the human condition of living and experiencing  existence by not being human at all. Now for this month's Star Trek battle will be rather super easy all you have to do is tell me is Who of Gene Roddenberry's wife's characters

has never been seen on Star Trek but is a part of the unseen pilot for Star Trek itself?' Now here is what I had as the month of April's gracing my screen of my computer looking back at me



as I was coming up with stuff to present to you the reading public.
       

  

    Now for the unexplained part of what you have been asking yourself  "What is Explainable that your all waiting for it is this image that is staring back at us on this very screen, It won't be replaced till maybe July first?

I just haven't decided I guess if I'm freaked out by it all that much just yet because seeing two sides of Spider-Man are just flat out cool to me!  I guess the Joke is on all of us at the moment, huh? but at least now I feel I can leave you hanging till tomorrow with our escapades through California and Beyond, What could I mean by that! 
To Be Continued........

Last bit of Hollywood and a place called OLD TOWN....(part Zum,Zum californa dreaming number 9)

Hello traveling voyagers with me Matt Byrd on this Californian road trekking trip, 
    So as you all know last time on this vacation hitter of stories I had said we saw the paved stars in the sidewalk along Hollywood Blvd and Vine street in the city known in the forties and fifties as the movieland of the whole world. Well before I begin our time in San Diego, and what we did there I have to say two very important last things about being there, One is that on our first Hop on and Hop Off tours I was trying so very hard to get the Paramount water tower to no end I just was at a lost till yesterday's east side tour of China town when at one passing Conner I saw the gates to umm the filming studios from everything  as "

:1953,WAR OF THE WORLDS" and these two movies from the early nineteen eighties one of a kid named Ren who teaches a town about the fun of dancing again in ":

1984 FOOTLOSE" and going all out silly at any given time how is this for a Paramount film one simply called  "

:1984, TOP SECRET" oh and a small television and film franchise that started airing now over to close to fifty years between five television series and twelve movies....I think you all know what I'm about to say right? Well if not here is photo clue:

for you? Something called "PIGS IN SPACE" no wait that sounds to Muppetly doesn't it?, or how  this   "BATTLESTAR GAlACTICA" oh that's right that was really to rival something known as STAR WARS (Which both of those had a slight twisted fate of there own to a certain degree....Ah Yes I know it now it's a series called: Star Trek which has been running in four of those five television incarnations since September eight, nineteen sixty six.  Also for anyone who doesn't follow this very blog should know it is filled with Trek knowledge in unbounding ways because well I do have a great love for it! On that very turn as I was saying before I not only got the studio's water tower finally but the gates to the property

itself. Chuck had said "If I had planned on us being in Hollywood longer than just two days I would have booked us a tour of the famed studio....ah well there always another time" and I agreed  even though it would have been nice to of done if we could. Now the one thing I for sure don't want be accused of is being in tinsel town as Hollywood's true nick name is and say I didn't grab or get a shot with my camera of the famous sign over looking the whole city and I think you know the one that I mean. 

I got two grand shots of this one each day the one from yesterday was from on the Hop ON and Hop OFF tour. The other was on foot when we were at West Sunset Blvd. where we could also se the Capitol Records

building too.  
       Now I really do promise for the time being I am very much moving beyond Hollywood and onward to our drive to San Diego, which is where before in part two I had said I saw a building with my nephew Cannon's name on it while on the bus ride to the BART in Oakland to Dublin California, where my sister and my nephew Bryce are living. Well it just so happens that I saw that a few roads away from entering San Diego that my nephew Cannon has a whole road named for him yet we were going by at such a spanning pace I couldn't get a shot of it for him to see himself owning a road in the   Golden state of California. Once we finally pulled into San Diego I was able to get this cool and refreshing shot of boats out in a place we were now visiting called Old Town.

 

We had  a lot of fun here of learning about the part of San Diego that was yet to be part of California just before the time of the Gold Rush event of the late eighteen forties. Old Town was founded in seventeen sixty nine by a man named Gaspar de Portia while both San Diego and California still hadn't yet been part of the United States itself, in fact California the state wasn't admitted till September ninth of the year of eighteen fifty by then the Gold rush of California was in full swing by eighteen forty eight in Sierra Nevada  was where it started. When San Diego was starting out it was this very city was San Diego, Chuck and I went on the tour of the town in which we learned a lot about the beginnings of  

the bank known as Welles Fargo. Then as well about the justice in the town in fact here is what the inside of the court house

and the jail. We went also to another part of Old Town that had a haunted house that again both Chuck and  I were the  two of the three of us that braved our souls in the spooky place that even a certain Great Dane and his four human pals  known as

Daphne Blake, Fred Jones, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, and Velma Dinkley and of course the Great Dane was called Scooby Doo and they would solve a great mystery  of a place being haunted by spirits of the past. In this very scary place of  Old Town just from some the photos of the owners 

which  were named Whaley you might be wise not to enter this place. As for me though,  while on these vacations with my mom Nancy Powers Watson and my step father Chuck Ross Watson over the past couple of years I have overcome a great many sets of different emotional reactions since I was a little kid the and main one is over coming fear of seeing and doing things that are new to me, and stop reacting based on fear alone. Here are some of the rooms from the Whaley homestead now tell me don't you feel something when your viewing them like a sense of creepiness about the place

maybe even a little? .            

                                                                  To Be Continued.......