solo traveler – TOKIDOKI (NOMAD)

COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA: WE LIVE, AS WE DREAM ~ ALONE.

Published on April 2, 2020 by jacquelinemhadel1 Comment

78F2FF0C-6EA0-477F-987A-F2FA4F0C5114 — “𝙽𝚘, 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎; 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎-𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚎𝚙𝚘𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚗𝚎’𝚜 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎–𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑, 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐–𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚜𝚞𝚋𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎. 𝚆𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎, 𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖–𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎.”
**― 𝙹𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚙𝚑 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚛𝚊𝚍, 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜**
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**𝙲𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚊 𝙱𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝙵𝙻 𝟷𝚊𝚙𝚛𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶**

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA GRAFFITI: SPRAYIN’ FLAMINGO!

Published on September 24, 2019 by jacquelinemhadelLeave a comment

21sep19. Barrio Logan, San Diego, California

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: BARRIO LOGAN

Published on September 24, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel4 Comments

Barrio Logan, in southeast San Diego, is referred to as el ombligo or navel, the center of the world. It’s the home of Chicano Park, which was the the site of a 1970s demonstration, land takeover, and cultural renaissance for the Mexican-American community. It was designated an official historic site by the San Diego Historical Site Board in 1980 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

n 1871, Congressman John A. Logan wrote legislation to provide federal land grants and subsidies for a transcontinental railroad ending in San Diego. A street laid in 1881 was named Logan Heights after him, and the name came to be applied to the general area. Plans for a railroad never successfully materialized, and the area was predominantly residential by the turn of the century, becoming one of San Diego’s oldest communities. Its transformation began in 1910 with the influx of refugees from the Mexican Revolution, who soon became the majority ethnic group. For this reason, the southern part of the original Logan Heights neighborhood came to be called Barrio Logan. (Barrio is a Spanish word for “neighborhood”.) ~ wiki

21sep19. San Diego, CA

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: BE HUMBLE, BE NOBLE

Published on September 15, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel4 Comments

The **Brunswig Drug Company** is an historic structure located at 383 5th Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter

This is a theatre with history in the heart of the Gaslight district. Built 1887.

The USS Midway was the longest-serving aircraft carrier in the 20th century. Named after the climatic Battle of Midway of June 1942, Midway was built in only 17 months, but missed World War II by one week when commissioned on September 10, 1945. Midway was the first in a three-ship class of large carriers that featured an armored flight deck and a powerful air group of 120 planes. -midway.org

“Orange Tree”

National Register #80000845 McClintock Storage Warehouse 1202 Kettner Boulevard San Diego Built 1925 The McClintock Storage Warehouse is one of the few remaining examples of a large commercial warehouse from an era which saw a tremendous growth of commerce in San Diego. It was designed by architect Herbert Palmer in the same period and same Mission Revival style as the adjacent Santa Fe Depot. The structure was built of reinforced concrete for strength, permanence and fire resistance. The builder, William Ernest Kier, was a giant in the construction industry, who built such structures as the Grand Coulee and Coolidge Dams. When the building opened in 1925, it was the site of the Greater San Diego Exposition, an exhibition of local merchants, manufacturers and automobile dealers. – noehill.com

Space Invader 👾 up high on Kettner Blvd.

“Breaking the Chains ⛓ “ by Mel Edwards, in tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Little Italy

In the vicinity of West Ivy Street in San Diego’s Little Italy district often comment on a mural painted on the brick wall visible from India Street (and the Ballast Point tasting room). The mural depicts a can of Ben-Hur drip coffee (best for all methods, vacuum packed to protect freshness), complete with its logo of a chariot and four charging horses. The mural seems to be old – the Ben-Hur brand of coffee and spices originated as a tie-in to the popular 1925 silent movie and disappeared in the 1950s – but it actually dates from 1982. However, it does mark the building where the popular coffee was once produced and which was home to what is considered to be the first coffee company in San Diego. Built 1913. -thewebsters.us

Washington Elementary School’s STEAM students dreamed up a Mona Lisa mural — modeled after the very popular children’s video game, Minecraft, a game where you can build virtually anything with bricks. The mural was named “Mine-A-Lisa” and was constructed out of 1,600 painted squares to emulate the bricks in Minecraft that come together to create a 20-by-20-foot masterpiece.

Sep19. San Diego CA 🇺🇸

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA: SMILE, YOU’RE IN SAN DIEGO! 😀

Published on September 14, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel3 Comments

Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship, Euterpe. After a career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route. Retired in 1926, she was restored as a seaworthy museum ship in 1962–3 and home-ported at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in San Diego, California. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still floating.[4] The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark. -wiki

The San Diego County Administration Center is a historic Beaux-Arts/Spanish Revival-style building. Completed in 1938. Nickname: Jewel on the Bay

Once the tallest building in the Downtown area, the Centre City Building was designed by award winning architect, Frank W. Stevenson. Built in 1927.

St. Joseph Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral at 1535 Third Avenue in the Cortez Hill neighborhood of downtown San Diego, California. It is the seat of the Diocese of San Diego. Founded in 1874.

St. Paul’s Cathedral is an Episcopal church located in the Bankers Hill district of the city of San Diego, California. It is the formal seat of the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. It traces its origins to the first Protestant church in San Diego, founded in Old Town in 1853, although the building itself was only completed in 1951. -wiki

Known as the Daniel O. Cook residence. Built 1898.

Built 1918.

SUUM CUIQUE: To Each His Own

Artist Fizix for The Cigar Cave in Hillcrest.

Artist Fizix for East Coast Pizza in Hillcrest.

Sep19. San Diego CA 🇺🇸

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM 🇧🇪: SNAPSHOTS ~ MY BELGIAN SUMMER 2019

Published on August 17, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel1 Comment

July/August 2019 Belgium 🇧🇪 and The Netherlands 🇳🇱

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA: IMPLICIT DEMAND FOR PROOF (21 Pilots, PT. 1)

Published on April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel6 Comments

the soundtrack to my three months of living in Costa Rica has been almost exclusively, the 4 twenty one pilots’ albums: self-titled, vessel, blurryface, and trench. this upcoming 4-part photo series will feature captions with their lyrics describing an even deeper contextualization of my overall pure vida experience.

i’ll try to delay what you make of my life. but i don’t want your way. i want mine.

you are tired. you are hurt. a moth ate through your favorite shirt. and all your friends, they fertilize the ground you walk. lose your mind.

i’ve been traveling in the deserts of my mind.

living like a ghost, you walk by everyone you know. you say that you’re fine, but you have lost your sway and glow.

then the wages of war will start inside my head with my counterpart.

no one really knows his mind and no one knows behind his eyes.

we get colder as we grow older. we will walk so much slower.

i’m not sure i want to give you tools that can destroy my heart.

he wakes up early today, throws on a mask that will alter his face. nobody knows his real name…

he thinks that faith might be dead. nothing kills a man faster than his own head.

the air begins to feel a little thin, as we’re waiting for the morning to begin.

i wanna fall inside your ghost and fill up every hole inside my mind. and i want everyone to know that i am half a soul divided.

look in the mirror and ask your soul if you’re alright.

put on the glitter that your soul hides behind.

all we are is an isle of flightless birds.

please don’t think about why you can’t sleep in the evening.

please don’t be afraid of what your soul is really thinking.

how frustrating and so degrading, his time we’re wasting, as time will fly by and the sky will cry as light is fading…

16apr19. San Jose, Costa Rica.

CARTAGO, COSTA RICA: ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE PARISH RUINS (Ruinas de la Parroquia de Santiago Apóstol)

Published on March 31, 2019March 31, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel3 Comments

These ruins are a cultural heritage site. Technically, the site can’t be called “ruins,” because it was never actually completed. Here’s why (and this is a crazy amount of earthquakes):

1575 – several churches have existed on this site since this time

1630 – first building destroyed by an earthquake

1656 – demolished

1662 – consecration of a new building

1718 – heavily damaged by another earthquake

1756 – another earthquake damaged the church

1841 – finally destroyed on September 2, 1841 by the San Antolin earthquake

1870 – the last attempt to rebuild the church was started; built in Romanesque style (only one in Costa Rica)

construction was halted for 30 years

1903-1904 – restarted again

1910 – construction finally halted for good after the Santa Monica earthquake

Today, it’s a beautiful park.

Ghost Story:

According to a popular legend, there were two brothers who lived in Cartago. One of them was a single, nice guy and the other was a priest. A rivalry arose between them as they both fell in love with the same woman. She chose and married the single, nice guy. The priest was infuriated, and did everything he could to destroy his brother. Then, in 1577 during the New Year’s mass, he saw his brother in the church and killed him with a knife. In penance for his mortal sin he built a church for the city, but one year after, an earthquake destroyed it. Each time it was rebuilt, another new earthquake destroyed it, until 1910 when it was canceled and thought to be a cursed site. It is also said that on foggy nights, it’s possible to see the priest, headless, inside the ruins, wandering for eternity as his penance for desecrating a holy site. (wiki)

30mar19. Cartago, Costa Rica.

JACÓ, COSTA RICA: EL MIRO RUINS & GRAFFITI

Published on March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 by jacquelinemhadel7 Comments

No one can say for sure if this is an abandoned hotel or an abandoned restaurant, if the developer died or if the developer ran out of money before it could be completed…but, either way, this is a cool, mysterious site hidden up high within the forest; a worthy hiking exploration. Follow the pics below: