The world has changed quite a lot since this episode of Visiting first aired in November 2002; but the Orange County Model Sailing Club is still going strong and continue to meet on a regular basis at the same lake where Huell encountered them. I can’t help but admire all the hard work and serious attention to detail that goes […]
Today, an hour-long episode of Visiting — first aired in August 1997 — has Huell taking a whirlwind tour of Los Angeles to learn about just a few of the many statues and monuments adorning the city. From the giant equestrian statue on a traffic island to the bronze busts in Lincoln Park to the tiny figurine in memory of […]
Every quilt tells a story, if you look deep enough. I’m most definitely not a quilter, but I absolutely admire the intricate needlework and the beauty of the finished products. Of course, many older quilts contain family histories, and they’ve always been a part of the story of American westward expansion. This episode of California’s Gold originally aired January 3, […]
The lighthouse at San Diego’s Point Loma is fairly familiar to me from visits back in the 1970s and early 1980s, but during those outings I never even realized there were tidepools nearby. Tidepools have always fascinated me. As a child I was always eager to explore the ones exposed at low tide around Fort Bragg in Mendocino County and […]
This episode of California’s Golden Parks, originally aired in January 2005, sees Huell visiting Pio Pico State Historic Park in Whittier. The house was built in 1850, after Pio Pico’s time as governor of Mexican California had come to an end and around the time California became the 31st state. At its largest, Pio Pico’s ranch was 8,894 acres; nowadays […]
Although this one-hour episode of Visiting originally aired in August 2006, I do feel like it’s fitting, as we say hello to a brand new year, to take a long look at the the stars that surround us, to consider our place in the universe, and to ponder where we have been and where we are going. Another more personal […]
I sometimes wonder why Huell is often so worried about “giving away” the point of the show when the title itself is a huge clue! But either way, Huell has a lot of fun in this musical episode of Visiting which originally aired back in October 2000. And while the blurb below mentions Schroeder from Charles Schulz’ Peanuts cartoon, I […]
Concrete boats was not an entirely new concept to me, but until watching this episode of Visiting, originally aired March 2002, I never realized their construction was such a high-tech and complicated endeavor. This ASCE competition for engineering students started in 1988 and is still going on in 2024. The winners of this year’s finals competition were the University of […]
Per Alton Pryor’s book Historic California: Its Colorful Names and How It Got Them, the word Tehachapi is “the Indian name for a creek … recorded in 1853.” After the railroad was built across the mountains in 1876, “Southern Pacific Railroad transferred the name from the old wagon route to the railroad pass.” Several train tunnel openings are visible from […]