Today’s Rant No. 30: Water Edition

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State Park Web site. The Falls is also capable of producing more than four kilowatts of electricity, which is shared by the United States and Canada. Water drops at 32 feet per second over the Falls, which hits the base with 280 tons of force. Wow, these statistics are staggering!</li><li>As a kid, my parents and I traveled to Lake Havasu City, Ariz. once a year to visit my paternal grandparents, William and Mary. The town sits to the east of Lake Havasu and the Colorado River. The London Bridge is ironically the town’s biggest tourist attraction. Seriously. According to the Go Lake Havasu Web site, Robert P. McCulloch purchased the bridge from London in 1968 for $2.4 million. The bridge was then dismantled, shipped, and rebuilt on a human-made channel in Lake Havasu City for$ 7 million. The bridge officially opened Oct. 10, 1971. This is impressive if you consider that none of today’s biggest tech giants have even successsfully bought a bridge, moved it to a freakin’ desert, and earned money from it. Eat your heart out, Elon Musk!</li><li>My wife, Kay, brought me to visit her family in Southern California for the first time in 2019. The evening before we returned home, the two of us along with her parents and sisters dined at the Redondo Beach Pier. It is a beautiful place

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filled with restaurants, shops, and even an arcade at one time. After we relocated to SoCal later that year, Kay and I returned to Redondo Beach to celebrate our one-year anniversary as a couple. Hence, it holds a special place in my heart. It is about 20 miles west of where I live now, so I still enjoy visiting it from time to time.</li><li>Kay and I visited Oahu in January for our honeymoon. We had a great trip. Spent two days at the Aulani Disney Resort and another four days in Waikiki. Of course, Oahu is an island literally surrounded by water. Hence, we spent lots of time swimming and walking along the beaches there. Ironically, the first time I visited Oahu 20 years earlier, I somehow managed to spend a week there without visiting the beach. Seriously. That would be like having the audacity to visit Anaheim without going to Disneyland. Walt Disney would return from the dead and kick your butt.</li><li>I have yet to bring our son, Mateo, to the Bay Area for a vacation. But, when it happens, I plan to spend a day at Fairyland with him. Not only to relive my own childhood memories, but also because I certainly do not have the audacity to visit the Bay Area without going to Fairyland. After all, I would not want Walt Disney to kick my butt, too.</li></ul></article></body>

Today’s Rant No. 30: Water Edition

I grew up near many bodies of water in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Pacific Ocean. Carquinez Strait. Even Lake Merritt. In fact, visiting Children’s Fairyland with my mom and then feeding the ducks in nearby Lake Merritt afterward is one of my favorite childhood memories. Created in 1950 by local businessperson Arthur Navlet, Fairyland is a 10-acre storybook theme park with rides, animals, and gardens. A little-known fact: Walt Disney had wanted to create a theme park of his own, so he visited several parks for ideas — one of which was Fairyland. Of course, he eventually opened his park in 1955, which he named “Disneyland,” and the rest was history!

When I graduated from college 15 years ago, my mom and I took an east coast tour to celebrate my achievement. We visited Philadelphia. Washington, D.C. Even New York City. But Niagara Falls was undoubtedly the highlight of the trip. To this day, it is the most wonderous piece of nature I have seen with my own two eyes. About 3,160 tons of water flow over Niagara Falls every second, according to the Niagara Falls State Park Web site. The Falls is also capable of producing more than four kilowatts of electricity, which is shared by the United States and Canada. Water drops at 32 feet per second over the Falls, which hits the base with 280 tons of force. Wow, these statistics are staggering!

As a kid, my parents and I traveled to Lake Havasu City, Ariz. once a year to visit my paternal grandparents, William and Mary. The town sits to the east of Lake Havasu and the Colorado River. The London Bridge is ironically the town’s biggest tourist attraction. Seriously. According to the Go Lake Havasu Web site, Robert P. McCulloch purchased the bridge from London in 1968 for $2.4 million. The bridge was then dismantled, shipped, and rebuilt on a human-made channel in Lake Havasu City for $7 million. The bridge officially opened Oct. 10, 1971. This is impressive if you consider that none of today’s biggest tech giants have even successsfully bought a bridge, moved it to a freakin’ desert, and earned money from it. Eat your heart out, Elon Musk!

My wife, Kay, brought me to visit her family in Southern California for the first time in 2019. The evening before we returned home, the two of us along with her parents and sisters dined at the Redondo Beach Pier. It is a beautiful place filled with restaurants, shops, and even an arcade at one time. After we relocated to SoCal later that year, Kay and I returned to Redondo Beach to celebrate our one-year anniversary as a couple. Hence, it holds a special place in my heart. It is about 20 miles west of where I live now, so I still enjoy visiting it from time to time.

Kay and I visited Oahu in January for our honeymoon. We had a great trip. Spent two days at the Aulani Disney Resort and another four days in Waikiki. Of course, Oahu is an island literally surrounded by water. Hence, we spent lots of time swimming and walking along the beaches there. Ironically, the first time I visited Oahu 20 years earlier, I somehow managed to spend a week there without visiting the beach. Seriously. That would be like having the audacity to visit Anaheim without going to Disneyland. Walt Disney would return from the dead and kick your butt.

I have yet to bring our son, Mateo, to the Bay Area for a vacation. But, when it happens, I plan to spend a day at Fairyland with him. Not only to relive my own childhood memories, but also because I certainly do not have the audacity to visit the Bay Area without going to Fairyland. After all, I would not want Walt Disney to kick my butt, too.