Blogs from San Diego, California, United States, North America

It has been 100 years since the Titanic sideswiped that iceberg. If she had hit it dead on then there wouldn’t be as much interest in her because she wouldn’t have sunk. She would have limped her way to New York. There wouldn’t be so many books, documentaries, and dramas about her. We wouldn’t have the theme parks and we wouldn’t have the exhibits. I’ve been absorbing all that I can these past couple of weeks through word and video. The centennial of the infamous plunge into the pond has sparked my interest. I love history and the Titanic is endlessly fascinating. What more appropriate way to indulge my fascination than with a visit to the Titanic exhibit at the Natural History Museum (theNAT) in San Diego. I got lucky that the centennial fell on a ... read more

Today we had breakfast of cereal. Our day was a tour of Old Town San Diego, Anthony's Seafood for dinner, Jack and I WORKED OUT in the pool room with some games of eighball. We were equally as bad at it. Aleta and Barbara PLAYED in the workout room :-). We wound up with Baskin Robins then chilled at the RV.... read more

Well, today was quite the adventure! Haha. I woke up early again which is good I suppose – gives me more time to get stuff done. I bussed into town and headed straight to Old San Diego/Historic Town. The area is pretty much “Upper Canada Village” but smaller/less staff dressed up. It was neat though! They had a Mexican garden/fiesta area which had amazing decor and sculptures. I wandered through the “Stable House” and read up about some of the history of the city in another museum-like area. The courthouse/jail was neat too – the jail was basically just an iron block big enough to stand in. The General Store and Confectionary Store were fun to look around as well – even better with free samples (dill pickles and peanut butter fudge... thankfully, not together haha) ... read more

(Note: I finally caught up on my entries – so if you scroll down you’ll get the ones I was late posting :) Hopefully I’ll be able to do my one a day the rest of the trip... at least until I get to San Francisco and have another overnight bus ride) Tonight I think I’m going to use my eye-mask... I woke up so early this morning because of the sun, so I don’t want a repeat especially with the spring-forward. San Diego, your weather... we need to talk here. During the day so perfect, warm and toasty... at night... not so much. I’m writing this, sitting out on the porch in my sweater and scarf, shivering lol. I suppose that’s what happens when you’re a block away from the ocean. Anywho, today was fun ... read more

So, took the overnight bus to San Diego via LA – my poor sleep schedule is so out of whack. Oh well. The bus station in Vegas was actually nice – they had a tv playing “Impractical Jokers” so the whole whack of us in line were killing ourselves laughing for an hour. Wish Canadian bus stations had tv... Try as I might, I barely slept from Vegas to LA... it was 3am and still no dice, so I got maybe 30min to an hour. LA was pretty sleepy looking traffic-wise, but I guess 4am isn’t exactly prime travel time. Bus station in LA was less pleasant... whole bunch of very seedy looking characters along with a lot of (apparent) gangsters... so many tattoos and scars in one place. Two of them cut in-line... I didn’t ... read more

From December 10-12, I headed down to San Diego with my friends from urban planning. We stayed with my friend Tiffany and celebrated her birthday. We also visited some of the sites around this beautiful coastal city, particularly in Encinitas, La Jolla and Coronado. I hope to return one day to visit the zoo - no one would go with me this trip! -Dafne... read more