Torrey Pines Gliderport - Powered by the Wind and the Sun

I relinquished my prime parking spot near the LJ mini-marathon-madness so that I could drive to the Torrey Pines Gliderport to water the plants at Morgan's bench ( www.morganrohde.com/ ). La Jolla was filled with weekenders, all trying to park where there is very little parking. The tourists flock to the shops and restaurants on Prospect Street because they don't know any better; and probably because everyone else seems to be doing the same thing ("So it must be good, right"?).

Herd mentality again. The food on Prospect Street doesn't have to be good, because tourists will come as incessantly as the waves that roll in from the Pacific. I believe that if the restaurant owners proclaim that their fare is "The Finest Seafood in the world", then the tourists who pay twenty times what the meal was actually worth, will leave with a fabricated memory of having eaten fine food in La Jolla.

The shops (I meant to write "Shoppes") of La Jolla are best known for their exorbitant prices and short lives. While they are alive, they are stocked with "chic", but "chic" itself is doomed by "nouveau chic". Nothing is allowed to get very old in La Jolla; and that includes people - especially women. Women are locked in a futile battle against time. Time always wins, but not before millions of dollars have been spent on increasing breast size by every means except pneumatic. Liposucking fat is big business here, as is injectiing plastics to refill areas that have been claimed by gravity. Botoxins, collagens, and almost everything grown in the Amazon is trotted out as the "miracle cure" that will reverse aging. These people have enough money and vanity to pay for all of this..........while millions of people in this country and around the world are starving.

I've wandered.


I love the Torrey Pines Glider Port flytorrey.com because nothing there requires the burning of gasoline, diesel, coal, or anything else. Everything that flies there flies on the wind from the west. All electricity used there is generated by solar panels. UCSD and the Salk Institute, and even the City of San Diego are all trying to find ways to get at the land used by the Torrey Pines Gliderport. I'll return to this..........it's a personal crusade against commercialism and environmental destruction performed under the guise of "the public good". The city of San Diego (nearly bankrupt) spent $500,000 on a "study program" to determine how to best use the land. It is $500,000 dollars in the pockets of people who will return a report that says what they were told it should say.

Torrey Pines Golf Course routinely pumps millions of gallons of water every week to keep the golf course green and ready to host the next U.S. Open.........a golf course for the judges, politicians, and profiteers of San Diego. The Torrey Pines Glider Port, which is immediately adjacent to the well-soaked golf course, was recently sued for using lawn sprinklers occasionally to grow grass and prevent erosion. If this seems like a double standard........it is!


Tomorrow, the herd will awaken early, drink their "energy" drinks, meditate, affirm to themselves that they are worthy, and then they will gather and run a "half marathon" from Del Mar to La Jolla. Thousand of them. There are already platoons of portable toilets in the streets and on the sidewalks on the route of the "Half Marathon". (Shouldn't it be called a "THON"?) Why does this herd get portable toilets, street closings, free water and mementoes of the running of the herd?

I don't know.

At Torrey Pines Glider Port, the people are more resourceful, less coddled, more adventurous, less in need of therapy and idling vehicles. In fact, the people at Torrey Pines Glider Port embody all of the values the herd professes.

"Those who can......do" "Those who can't.......form a herd"