http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/glyndav/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from glyndav en-us Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:13:17 +0000 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:13:17 +0000 Yes Merry Christmas from Mexico After some persuading I agreed to K's suggestion that we travel to Baja California for the Christmas holiday. We went to Los Cabos which comprises two towns 30km apart at the southern tip of the peninsula San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. It's almost 1000 miles by road from San Diego so we didn't drive QuietWe stayed in the old town of San Jose del Ca http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Baja-California-Sur/San-Jose-del-Cabo/blog-360246.html ...whoever you areSo is my New Year Resolution to write more travel blog entries Errm... http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/blog-360241.html We're living a few miles north of downtown San Diego so I occasionally use the local bus service to get around. You always find some errm unusual characters on buses but Southern California has to outdo most. Here are a couple of the more notable ones I managed to capture using my phone camera...The PreacherYou can't see his face but he caught my attention at the bus stop with his full beard http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/blog-345170.html It could only happen in La Jolla...I'm not saying it's an expensive place to live but how many towns or cities do you know with a used Bugatti showroom For those of you not in the know the Bugatti Veyron is probably the fastest most expensive commercially produced car ever made. I haven't checked out the exact price but we're talking around 2 MILLION dollars for a new oneNo I didn't ask fo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/La-Jolla/blog-333331.html Did I say on Saturday that it would be mid70s this weekSunWell it isn't. Yesterday saw the highest temperatures for October ever. It was 94F in downtown San Diego and 110F inland. I stayed at home.WindThe weather forecasters are now predicting Santa Ana winds at weekend. These are often associated with Wildfires. These caused serious damage in 2007 so the authorities are right to be con http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/blog-332721.html I didn't actually want to go to Mexico you understand. It's just that there is a large outlet shopping mall right next to the border in San Ysidro and K me thought we should look for some cheap clothes.Tijuana TrolleySo we paid our 5 each for a day transit pass and got on the 'Tijuana Trolley' or Blue Line as the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Authority now call it. From the trolley stop it http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/San-Ysidro/blog-332695.html That's how my pocket feels after a trip to the drug store. It was only a cold sore. And my old tube of Zovirax was empty so off I went to get a new one. Except you can't over here because it is prescription only. For those of you that don't know how getting a prescription written in the USA works here's what happens You book an appointment with your physician minimum 2 weeks notice for http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-332690.html Ok so I'm still actually in SoCal see learning the language. I was getting fed up of choosing the same location each time so thought I would have a change. My heart was in Blackburn this morning though. Or at least my football team. That's football as in socccrrrr as some would say over here. The game was live on Fox Sports Soccer at 9.30am an almost sensible time compared to the UK l http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Lancashire/blog-330882.html Most of you won't have heard of HIPAA. It stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act passed by the US Congress in 1996 to protect workers when they lose healthcare benefits on changing jobs.What's that got to do with us I hear you ask No Well I'm going to tell you anyway.ConcernedOne of our main concerns in being in the US for so long is the availability of proper h http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/blog-326845.html Welcome to my Travel BlogThe title says it allSo what am I doing flying thousands of miles from North West England to sunny Southern California Those that know me well of course understand that K has been offered the chance to come over here to work and there is no way she is living here without me.VisasBecause we will be here for several months I need a US visa. Normally it would be a simple http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/blog-322912.html Above The national anthemWell I had to didn't I Near the top of my To Do List was 'see a Chargers game'. K thought I should wait until we found some local people we could go with but with only 8 home games a season I wasn't so sure. There was nothing planned this weekend the opening weekend of the season so I thought I should go for it.One of the tips for getting good seats especially if http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/blog-321654.html Imagine a large home improvement store. Painted orange. With orange displays.Q. Complete this sentence You can do it... A. You can do it. We can help.Yes it's Home Depot that's DEEpo not DEPPo of course. America's answer to BQ. And like said store full of all kinds of stuff except exactly the thing you want. In our case an umbrella for a garden table. You would think in a city whe http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/blog-320551.html The first clear evening since we arrived. K wanted to go to register at the library and we stopped off on the way to watch the sun setting over Pacific Beach.The first thing we saw was a man walking along strumming a guitar. Not that odd for PB. It was when he walked past us the other way about 5 minutes later that we noticed he had a parrot on his left shoulder. I want one. I got a photo of http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Diego/Pacific-Beach/blog-319794.html