When our newspaper office officially relocated from Pacific Beach to the greater downtown area earlier this summer, change was in the air.

Moving from a small community office that had been there for more than a decade to an office that would be new to all of us was a notable difference.

Living only about five minutes from the old office, I was sad that my drive to work would change, among other things.

The drive to the PB office was simple.

I crossed the bridge by Sea World and headed down Ingraham directly to the office located at the corner of Grand and Ingraham. It did not get much simpler than that.

I remember a time when a portion of Ingraham in Crown Point wasn’t fun to drive on. I also remember blowing a tire and cracking a wheel rim a couple of years earlier due to a sizable

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