Situated next to The Shores is the world famous Hotel del Coronado.  The hotel is famous for a number of reasons but perhaps most well known for its appearance – a massive, wooden, Victorian style estate with a red roof and classic windows with white siding.  But there ...

You slowly turn over in bed.  Before you open your eyes, you can tell that the room is filled with light – natural light from the sun peeking over the San Diego mountains. As your eyelids pop open, you stretch your body – from your fingers down to your ...

If you Google images of the Coronado Shores, the result will be loads of photos of the beach, Coronado Bridge, the bay and the 10 towers.  The reason for all these seemingly random photos is because they are what you see from the Shores. 

Standing tall, each of ...

When I was a youngin’ I was very much into cooking.  I wanted to be a chef and know all the delicious recipes that famous chefs around the world had created.  I would watch the Food Network program all the time, trying to understand all the elements and spices that ...

When I lived in New York City, I was living in old apartment complexes that required a key to get into the building.  I wasn’t making enough money to live in a building with a doorman although I always wanted to.  I loved how you could walk through the front ...

I have a friend who used to babysit for this family that lived in the Shores.  One time, I was invited to go along since it was at night and the kids would be going to bed shortly after our arrival.  This meant that while they were sleeping, we got ...

When I think of ping pong, I always imagine Tom Hanks.  You know, in Forrest Gump where he goes to Vietnam, gets shot in his bum and randomly picks up the game of ping pong. He works vigorously with his ball and paddle, and soon becomes a professional, traveling to ...

Just on the edge of the Shores beach, marking an invisible line where the Hotel Del begins and the Shores end, is a jetty. Before writing this blog, I had to look up the exact definition of the word jetty, just to be sure I was correct: a pier or ...

The Shores are very special not only because of their location but also because of their history.  There is nothing like the shores in Coronado simply because of their “gargantuan” height.  Back in the 70s when they were beginning to build these complexes, something special happened.  The town approved 10 ...

I recently spoke with a friend who grew up living in the Shores.  She could not say enough good things about residing in the large towers that sit on the edge of Coronado beach.  I believe she used the word “paradise” to describe her childhood experience of living in ...