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Published: October 4th 2007
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A setting sun 2
closer seeting sun California at last!!!!!So from Vegas I went to San Diego to stay with the guy that I drove to New Orleans with. I think I told you the greyhound story of the delay then non delay so will swiftly move on.Got into San Diego and its a big place, but I think its because its spread out, it has multiple areas and reckon its split a bit between the suberbs, the city and the beach. I got in at night so didn't do too much besides watch a DVD and sleep. San Dieog was gonna be my rest stop, recharge for Mexico and LA and save some money so this blog may not be too exciting.The next day I went walking, through the Hillcrest area and down into Balboa park which is quite large and has all the museums there plus the famous Zoo. Some of the museums were closed as it was a monday and as I wanted to see the town I didn't bother with the Zoo. Walking through Blaboa park I got heckeld by some bum who didn't like my t-shirt - a Texas Longhorns t-shirt I had bought in Austin, and then when I wanted to head
Me on the beach
Me on the beach... out of the park I got lost as usual. Well I say lost, lets just say I didn't take the most direct route. I found my way out and went to the town.The town was quite a long walk from where I was so I got some food and drink straight away - once again got heckled by some bum/old guy that reckoned I looked at him. I had the food and explored the shops which was ok, went past the NBC building and then down to the docks with the cruise ships before heading back up to where I was staying. It was all uphill and fairly steep on a hot day so it took a bit but I managed it in fair time. Went into some shops and bought myself 2 new t-shirts to replace 2 of the ones that got ruined in a wash in washington. Heading back I got lost again and got heckled again - this time by a crossdresser I think, no idea what he said but he was with a group of very strange looking people. So moving swiftly on from there I porceeded to continue getting lost, walking up the side of
Beach and cliffs
Shot of the beach from the top of the cliffs a busy road at one point before using my own sense of direction and knowledge to get back ok.The guy I was staying with goes to play football occassionally and said he would drive me down to where he plays where there is a beach I could explore. I said ok, so after a detour for me to send some stuff back to the UK we headed there. We past a huge Mormon temple on the way, the thing looked like a castle form Disneyland or something. We get to the drop off point and he says its a little hike and he'd be back to pick me up or I could join them later. I head to where he tells me to go and its pretty much a cliff..Well there is a kind of path down, but its up very high, no steps or rails or anything and the track is mostly sand so getting a grip and going down is not easy. I slide on my ass twice before doing some controlled sliding to get down and then just working my way down.I get to the beach and its a preety cool sight. First time I have seen
Shot of the cliffs
Shot of the cliffs form the beach. I came down to the beach form the top of there. the Pacific in rela life in over 10 years so I go and have a bit of wade - after steanding in there shoes first and getting the water coming over them. I notice the sun is low int he sky so decide to sit back on the beach and watch the sunset, which I did and it was very cool. A couple of things I noticed on the beach - little holes in the sand and then out of thise little holes came this kinda see through jumping things, I am not sure what they were but the later it got the more of them there was, so had to flick them of me a few times. A man with a rather large stomach walked past....naked. I noticed further up the beach a guy collecting stuf off the snad ina t-shirt and what appeared to be no pants and a couple, one of which was topless I thought. I decided that I didn't wanna hike up the cliff in the dark so set off and made the tricky climb back to the top. I meet the guys and they asked if I knew it was a gay beach....I kinda
gone..
the sun has set... figured it was a nude beach. It wasn't so bad though apprently as it was right next to a normal nude beach so that woman probably was topless. Did my blogs that night and then slept in the next day and went out briefly to explore the top end main drag which was ok, just some shops and stuff. Got a bit ripped off buying one pastcard in a postl office but was ok. Went out later that night to buy some stuff for tea. Finally found plain crossisants in a packet like I get in the UK so got those and then that night watched another DVD before bed.During that day as the Mexico plans had fallen through and there were no buses direct to Laguna Beach plus accom there was steep, I called up some cousins who live in Riverside not fair away and they said I can stay with them for awhile. So thats where I am now, hopefully gonna experience the real american life.
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Graham
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It surely doesnt end there....
Come on man, give us a bit of an update! :)