'One Lap Around San Diego Bay' is a definitive guide

SAN DIEGO – "One Lap Around San Diego Bay" gives San Diegans and visitors a guide to San Diego Bay along with the background to understand and appreciate their experience.

For the first time a single book covers the entire San Diego Bay experience. It is a "must have" book for every San Diegan and San Diego bound traveler.

Each of the 100 entries in "One Lap Around San Diego Bay" consists of an essay and photographs. The book contains over 220 pictures. The articles appear sequentially, allowing a driver to view all of them in a single 90-minute drive. Maps are included. Parking is close for easy access to everything.

San Diego boasts world class attractions, such as USS Midway, Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego Maritime Museum, San Diego National Wildlife Refuge and Hotel del Coronado that every first time San Diego visitor must experience.

San Diego Bay has miles of shoreline parks, some with swimming beaches, some with fishing piers, even one with wading pools and fountains for children. Marinas dot the bay, including America's Cup Harbor, the world-famous San Diego Yacht Club and the largest U.S. Navy facility in the world.

Art takes center stage everywhere from the tip of Shelter Island through the murals of Barrio Logan. Much of the art pays homage to great men and women from Juan Cabrillo to Bob Hope to the tuna fishermen who risked their lives to make San Diego the tuna capital of the world.

Present too are arts and entertainment, from the performing arts of the San Diego Symphony Bandstand, to Petco Park, voted the nation's best major league baseball stadium, to the San Diego Convention Center, itself an architectural masterpiece to an antique merry go-round.

Walkers and bicycle enthusiasts have tens of miles of trails to pick from. Museums cover ships from aircraft carriers, to submarines, to sailing vessels to Portuguese fishermen to light houses.

Author Don W. Lake is a graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara and did his graduate work at California State University Fullerton. A member of the first engineering graduate class at UCSB, Lake had a long and successful career in microelectronics featuring a specialty in electro-optics. He published over 90 technical articles in his field.

In retirement, Lake extended his writing to a number of different genres, including travel, where his work includes "One Lap Around San Diego Bay," "One Lap Around California" and "On the All-American Road." His interest in history resulted in "Significant American Military Aircraft" and "Orofino Wheels."

An avid photographer, Lake took many of the pictures in "One Lap Around San Diego Bay" and has a photo-essay book, "Something Different" to his credit. He lives with his wife on the bay in San Diego.

"One Lap Around San Diego Bay" is available in print and e-book form, online and from bookstores everywhere. For more information go to the Orofino Press website, http://orofinopressllc.com, or to the author's website, http://dlakewriter.com.