Blogs from Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, United States, North America - page 2

I’m waiting in line for my 10:30pm bus out. I hear a young guy questioning security near the carryon check-in. Guilt written all over his face, giving himself away he says, “Wait! Hang on… What? What do you mean you have to check my bag? What am I not allowed to take on board?” “You know drugs, knifes, guns, that sort of stuff.” He stands there for a bit as if his brain couldn’t comprehend. Either that or making sure he left his AK47 at home. “Oh, okay then.” A lady standing in front of me just missed her bus because they changed the boarding gate and didn’t make an announcement. “Mam, we can’t turn the bus around just for you I’m sorry. We have another bus that will leave at 130 in the morning.” This ... read more

Zoe, Kylie, Scott and I headed to San Diego Zoo and enjoyed a pretty good day out. After taking our time at first strolling along, we rushed to see everything we wanted, deciding to get on a tour bus around the zoo to help us decide what we wanted to come back and see. The sea lion show we saw was pretty awesome, seeing the aforementioned animal entertaining the crowd with ease. Damn they are good sliders! Seeing the polar bears, elephants and giraffes was pretty cool, and I end up buying a souvenir for Lewis in the gift shop. In the end I have to guess what size to get for him. When we met up with the others, Todd dropped us off in downtown San Diego for us to walk around and find our ... read more

Today after we were all ready we went to zion national park again to finish the book that makes you a junior ranger. To become a junior ranger you have to be in the age span of six throw twelve. Bailey, Darwin, and I were almost done our book but needed another day to finish it. The book says that if you are in between six throw eight then you would do the Tara Tarantula activities. If you were in the span rang of nine to twelve then you would do both Tara and Lewis Lizard's activities. The owl activities were just for fun in the book. After you were finished the book then you would bring it to the visitor center or the Museum and a anger would cheek it before awarding your badge. Although ... read more

BY JUSTINO I got home 2 weeks ago today, but still have not adjusted to day to day life off the road. After 27 flights (San Diego to Houston to DC to Newark to San Francisco to Newark to London to Newark to Beijing to Hong Kong to Guangshou to Saigon to Hoi An to Saigon to Singapore to Sydney to Wellington to Aukland to Wellington to Melbourne to Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to Phuket to Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur to Beijing to Newark to San Diego) totaling 46,631 miles, and thousands more driving across Australia and New Zealand and taking trains and buses across China and Vietnam, I'm not tired of traveling. In fact, right now I'd happily repack and head back out. The trip home took us to Melbourne, Phuket, Bangkok, ... read more

We have just spent three days having lazy and a relaxing time in San Diego without the car and back to the joys of public transport. I hate buses. We arrived in the afternoon and settled into our hostel by the beach. It was lucky we packed the car up the previously night as the whole return car process was very quick. The only problem was we didn’t pack our bags very well, we had trouble carrying them as we hadn’t done so for five weeks. But once we got settled in San Diego we went exploring our local area of Ocean Beach. It was very similar to Phillip Island in size and in the shops that were there. No great bakery though. Our second day in San Diego we went to the Zoo, that’s right ... read more