Weekly Photo Challenge – Tour Guide
We joined a church group to take a city tour in our neighborhood several months ago. We have been living in La Habra, California for twenty-six years. The City of Fullerton is behind the retaining wall in our backyard. We do a lot of thing in Fullerton such as go for walks in Laguna Lake, biking on trails, eat at the restaurants, have my hair done, or go to the hospital. We drive through downtown Fullerton hundreds of times but have never taken a leisure walk in that area.
The tour guide was very knowledgeable of the city history and was very efficient to show us the historic part of Fullerton. Fullerton was founded in 1887. It secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Historically it was a center of agriculture, notably groves of Valencia oranges and other citrus crops.
When we moved to the neighborhood 26 years ago, there were many orange patches. Many homes such as mine have orange trees in the yards. As cities developed, orange patches gave way to offices and housing.
In 1886, the city began negotiations with George H. Fullerton, president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company, also a Santa Fe subsidiary. They offered free right-of-way and a half interest in the land to the railroad and named the city after him. On July 5, 1887, the negotiation came through and the railroad station is now the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Commonwealth Avenue.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerton,_California
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That was a lovely walk through your tour, Miriam. That was indeed a great deal of walking.
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Yes, thank you. It was a good morning exercise!
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Miriam, I love this post! I did not know the history of Fullerton, and it was great to read it. My sister actually lived in Fullerton for several years when she was married, probably in the late 1990s. Thanks for the fun fill-in!
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You’re welcome, Teresa. It was fun to find out. I;m in Portland, arrived last night. Will be here until Sunday!!
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Great to hear! Cold this weekend there, I bet – we are supposed to get snow on Sunday! I’m heading to Port Townsend for the next week, going to a writing conference. yay!
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We may have a glimpse of the snow then, we’re leaving on Sunday. It’s wonderful that you can keep going to writing conferences. A friend had gone to a writing conference up on the mountain in this area, but it was for people who have written their books… Publishers were there to publish their book. My friend felt rushed and got a bad deal.
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Oh, that’s too bad about your friend at the conference for her book. 😦 This is a conference related to my MFA program, and since it’s just in Port Townsend, the travel isn’t too bad – just driving. I’m in the role of conference manager, so I wanted to get here a little early (it starts tomorrow) and make sure all the packets were ready, the sign-in sheet made up, etc. Once it starts I think I’ll be able to relax a little! 🙂 How is Autumn doing?
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I remember being the chairperson of a committee that planned the annual parenting conference. Several committee members had walky-talky. The resort conference manager screwed me up one year by not communicating with the kitchen manager.
Autumn talks a lot and smiles a lot, laugh sometime. The talking voice is getting closer to words, not just cooing. We’re excited!
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So great to hear about Autumn’s progress. 🙂
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Thank you, Teresa! 🙂
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Thank you Miriam for taking us through this beautiful journey. The orange tree deserves a special mention 🙂
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Thank you so much, Redhika. That’s the tree in my backyard. Picking oranges now.☺
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Oh wow! enjoy them 🙂
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Thank you so much, Redhika. It’s our treat 2x a year.☺
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Walking is such a great way to get to know a place.
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For new place, I need to walk more then once to remember 😀
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Ah, home! I grew up in La Mirada, right next to La Habra, and my wife grew up in Fullerton!
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Hi, old neighbors. I just had a choir and orchestra performance in Granada Heights Friends Church in La Mirada last night! Went to Home Depot in Fullerton today!!
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We’re practically related, Miriam. ;>)
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Haha, concert or Home Depot?
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Have nominated you for the Mystery Blogger Award. Hope you will participate.
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Thank you so much!! My blog is award free, I’ll do an acknowledgement of your nomination. 🙂
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Thanks Miriam. I appreciate that some bogs are award free, and I have ‘passed’ on a few nominations myself.
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Sorry, I thought I replied to you already!
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You’re only 45 minutes from my family in huntington beach. Maybe you have crossed paths and didn’t even now it! Loved your journey with the pictures
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Yes, we love going to Huntington Beach often.
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It’s on my bucket list to go there and watch a sunset!!!!!if you ever happen to get a sunset picture……I will love you forever and ever!
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I have ti check!!
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Such a lovely tour through your local area Miriam and I loved the orange trees. Fun stats on the steps taken.
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Thank you, Miriam. That tree is in my backyard. We have picked 300 oranges and have the same or more to pick before they all fall down!!
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Wow, that’s impressive. You could make a lot of orange cakes and squeeze a lot of juice with that many oranges, how wonderful.
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Thank you, Miriam. We usually just squeeze the juice. We have that for breakfast every morning!
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A perfect way to start the day!
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Thank you, Miriam. Good source for vitamin C also!
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Absolutely!
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Yes, 🙂
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The church looks beautiful. And, the oranges..wow!
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Thank you, Mani! We get two crops a year, each crop gives us about 400 oranges. We squeeze them and have orange juice for breakfast!!
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400!! Orange juice fresh from the farm, that sounds amazing! Since it’s quite hot, oranges do not grow here. We have to depend on colder regions of India for the supply.
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Yes, I know. It’s quite warm here and we can’t grow certain fruits!
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That’s awesome you got to play tourist in your own town, or neighbouring one:) It’s something neat to do, but so few of us make time to do it!
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Exactly. Loving here for 26 years and didn’t know many things in the neighborhood!
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I think we’re all guilty of that:)
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Did you get my comment about publishing?
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No sorry I don’t think I did:(
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Oh, that’s okay.
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Wow, this must have been really fun! Thanks Miriam for the great photos. 🙂 45,000 steps – wow! I love you. Happy Sunday, Debbie 🙂
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Thank you, Debbie. I have to get on a treadmill to count the steps and figure out the equivalent of miles. Have a nice week. Miriam. 🙂
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45,000 steps!! Wow!👍😀
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I want to find out how many miles to 45,000 steps! 🙂
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An average person has a stride length of approximately 2.1 to 2.5 feet. That means that it takes over 2,000 steps to walk one mile; and 10,000 steps would be almost 5 miles. So it should be 22.5 miles based on google. Based on my cell phone tracker, 10557 steps =2.1km, say roughly 8km plus?
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Wow, thank you for the calculation!!
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So beautiful Tour Miriam!!!
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Thank you, Paulo. We were glad that we went!
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The orange trees are really lovely, Miriam. A very interesting post.
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Thank you,Robbie! We’re having the second crop (2 crops a year) and picked 300 oranges already. Still have another 200+. Some neighbors don’t pick them. Ours are sweet because I water the tree. 🙂
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Thanks for taking me to Fullerton. I like the idea of oranges trees still there
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Yes, only the residence keep the trees. Our tree is doing very well and produce 500 – 600 oranges two times a year. We have been picking oranges!
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That’s lots of oranges Miriam. What do you do with them?
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We squeeze the juice and have it for breakfast every day.
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Excellent
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We miss it in between crops.
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45,000 steps in two hours! Wow that’s a very good pace
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Yes, it was a causal walk and talk, it’s not like a 5K run…haha, I couldn’t do it.
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45k steps!!! Not even my monthly steps could beat that!
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Thank you, Dahlia. It’s concentrated walking. I wouldn’t have done it on any other occasions!!
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You inspire me Miriam you really do!
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Thank you so much, Dahlia!
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No. Thank you!
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We support each other.
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🙋♀️
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wow – perfect presentation for such beautiful and historical tour. This is one of the most valuable of old history and culture, I very much appreciate you sharing this live journey and adventure.
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Thank you! I didn’t realize how old the city was. It was interesting to find out where the name of the city came from.
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