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San Diego,
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Two months has gone by and I feel like it was yesterday. Time has simply sped out of control like a top-fuel dragster with the throttle stuck wide open along I5 during rush hour. I declined to write a big, long story about Sand Diego as it would probably too boring to write and even more so for the reader. Rather, I will just narrate the highlights. April 30, 2010 What could we do. We had to make the best of it as we were stuck in San Diego until our plane took off on the 4th. I perused over the transportation schedules while we waited for the 88 wondering how in the heck we were going to get clothes, food, and basic necessities for a week. We found a Target and bought everything we needed.
We then took a trolley to the edge of the city around Sunset Cliffs before wandering around. We ran into a pretty good pizza joint and worked on replenishing what the PCT had depleted.
Amber was hungry and scarfed down half the entire pizza before we ordered desert.
Desert hit the spot and filled the void.
We found the pier and walked out while watching the surfers do their thing.
I chatted with one of them who told me, with a thick Irish accent, that the waves were not big enough.
We got back and ordered room service while I worked over my feet; gross, but pretty clean compared to some others we saw along the trail.
All showered up just before room service arrived. The mushroom and Swiss burger was the bomb!
May 1, 2010 I decided to celebrate May with a trip to the famous San Diego zoo.
Yup. They had turtles.
Koalas.
And other... things. I did not know what half of them were and really did not care. It was fun, but the honest motivation was to simply get the hell out of the hotel for a while.
I tried to get creative with the camera, but it was hard with the crowds.
We watched a really neat show with trained animals that I shot some great HD movie footage of.
Close up, Amber's cat, Jake, looks like this panther and probably weighs the same.
This is where I want to see cougar close-up and personal.
Yup! That's Jake.
People have these things as pets?
I suppose they are a little cute.
The rhinos were interesting to see close-up, but I was just waiting for Ace to pop out the rear.
We took the bus tour in order for me to continue my quest for laziness.
Big kitty.
I would love to see these in the wild. Eating out of some drainage tube just is not the same.
Of course, they had camels.
Melman was in full effect and still covered with brown spots. Can you imagine what my video library mostly consists of?
Simply the most flamingos I have ever seen.
Next up was the sky tram.
This guy was downright cool to watch and looked a little like me in my racing days.
That is where I should have been.
I would have done anything to be in between them for a picture.
This guy kept following us as I shoed him away several times.
May 2-3, 2010 More site seeing and as the busses don't run on Sunday we were reduced to a "weekend" of watching TV and eating.
May 4, 2010 Homebound. I missed home, but I missed the trail even more. Hopefully Amber has memories that will carry the flame of this trip even with the horrendous weather we had.
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