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Beyer s Byways: Dinosaurs and dark skies help define Borrego Springs
By John R. Beyer
For the Victorville Daily Press
I love driving in roundabouts because the concept of going around in circles, devil may care, waiting for an opening in the traffic to fearlessly exit is really enjoyable.
I loved them in Ireland. Loved them in Peru. Loved them in Turks and Caicos. And I love the one in Borrego Springs. Granted, Borrego Springs only has one, but if you don’t exit for 20 minutes, you can pretend the small Southern California desert community has dozens.
“You know, this is our third time around this roundabout,” Laureen asked, as I drove one more time around the beautiful Christmas Circle in downtown Borrego Springs.
People living in La Mesa’s Serramar community overlooking Lemon Grove have a new neighbor.
Earlier this week, a large Tyrannosaurus Rex sculpture standing in a concrete block mysteriously appeared on an empty plot on Monte Drive, a cul-de-sac off Eastridge Drive.
The 10-acre parcel is slated for about 40 homes in a development called La Mesa Summit Estates.
A resident of the area, Alice Hobson, who said she’s lived in La Mesa for 80 years, sent a photocopy of a photograph of the fenced-in dinosaur to The San Diego Union-Tribune and asked for an investigation. She said she doesn’t know how it got there.
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