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Published: February 6th 2009
Having woken up at 8am to the sound of traffic (our motel was right near to interstate 5), we took a minute to adjust to our surroundings and then made ourselves breakfast (scrambled egg sandwhich for me and a bowl of Lucky Charms cereal ("They're always after me lucky charms! What? Why does everyone always laugh when I say that?" - Austin Powers anyone?) for Paul. So what was the plan for today? The forecast wasn't good - the good weather in the low-mid twenties was set to break and it was meant to become rainy later today so we didn't want to get caught out in a storm while wandering round checking out the sights. However, necessity dictated our start to the day - about 2 days previously, Paul had decided to dye his hair blonde for some reason unknown to me. As with home-dye kits, it hadn't quite turned out the way he wanted it to (a more straw yellow instead of light blonde) so our first mission in San Diego was to look for a Sally's cosmetic place to get some hair bleach. So after breakfast, we're on the laptop to find the location of the nearest Sally's
McCoy House
This is a free museum with history of San Diego and little anecdotes along with some old dear dressed up in period costume sitting in the front room reading a racy Jackie Collins novel.in town and then set off in our car.
We head back into town which has a huge number of intersections - huge junctions with 5 lanes just in one way and 5 different directions - very confusing. Also, if you're wanting to turn right, (it would appear from watching other drivers) you can turn right even on a red light. Luckily, Paul was driving and after a slight detour, we parked near the Old Town and walked to Sally's. We bought toner, developer, shampoo and conditioner from Sally's and then walked back to the Old Town of San Diego. This appeared to be a little pedestrianised square with old fashion ranch-style shops selling the usual tourist tat and others just open for you to have a look round. We started at this big wooden house which was open to the public and was the replica of the house owned by some rich guy in the town in about 1865 called McCoy House. There were a few models to recreate a typical living room from that era along with lots of history about San Diego which would be fascinating if you liked that kind of thing. We moved on
and sauntered past the other replica buildings taking photos here and there. There were also Old Town tours in little trolley buses but we're on an even tighter budget saving our money for San Diego Zoo tomorrow, so we abstained. After doing the pictures thing and walking around the square, we got back in the car and back to the motel - we had to do "jobs" (the most important being Paul's hair). And then, the rain came. (The weather people were all so excited about that - obviously it's a rare thing round these parts - nutters).
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What house ?
I'm ashame to say that I have lived in San Deigo for some years now and never been to many of the locations you mentions in the article. Thanks now I plan on giving those places a visit this weekend :)