I’m writing this from my hotel room in San Diego. We arrived here Thursday night on a flight from Nashville. That’s the first time I’ve flown in a couple of years, and I was dreading the security procedures.
But it was harmless enough. I did my research online before, and knew what we could take and how things had to be packed. About 30 minutes after we got to the gate, a strong thunderstorm blew over, and they had to shut down everything for a while. We’d already been told our 4:55 flight was going to be about 15 minutes late, but the thunderstorm made it even later. We were finally in the air a little after 6.
We went to the San Diego Zoo on Friday. I’d been looking forward to it, but in reality it was somewhat of a letdown. Sure, they had animals there that the Nashville Zoo didn’t have, and the Zoo was a lot bigger. But they had moved quite a few animals to a Wild Animal Park in preparation for renovating some of the park. We did get to see a baby giraffe, which had been born Thursday night.
We stayed at the Holiday Inn on the Bay. Unfortunately, we didn’t have a bay view. Our view overlooked downtown. Just acros the street, they’re building at least three high rises. And they start work shortly before 7 am. Thankfully we’re still operating on Central Time, so we were mostly awake when the construction noise started. But for some reason, they have trains running all night, and those trains had to blow their horn about a half block away.
As I write this (on Saturday), we’re killing time, waiting for the Maritime Museum to open. After that we’re going to check out the USS Midway Museum. Then it’s up to Oceanside for a visit with some relatives. My next post will probably be from Las Vegas.