Agree. Great looking city. In some ways it sort of reminds me of Portland in the 9os - when it was just starting to become trendy. The downtown is different from Portland's because it has many more old buildings combined with the new modern growth - but there are tons of neighborhoods (like Lawrenceville or Duetchtown) which look like Alberta and maybe even Hawthorne looked like 25 years ago.
This was actually taken in Imperial Beach at the Dog Surf competition. I know you have some family there.
Wife took me whale watching (which is a waste of time, whales are imaginary creatures - you never see them) - but at least we got to play with Dolphins.