9 Month Update

We complete nine months of Life on the Road this week while we are in the San Diego area.  Since my last post we did a couple of days of sight seeing here in San Diego.  On Thursday we went to downtown San Diego to walk around Seaport Village, Horton Plaza and surrounding areas.  We had a great lunch at a restaurant in Seaport Village with outdoor seating near the water.

From our table we could see the North Island Navy base which is where the aircraft carriers park when in port.  One was in port, the Carl Vinson, which was where a college basketball game was held on Veteran’s Day.

We took a walk over to where the aircraft carrier Midway is berthed and took some pictures of statues they have on the “Greatest Generation Walk”.

Memorial to the U.S. San Diego

Midway

Tribute to Bob Hope

Huge statue of the famous Life magazine photo

As we walked further along the waterfront we found out that the America’s Cup World Series boat race is being held this weekend in the bay between Coronado and San Diego.  These are not the yacht type racing boats but rather catamarans.  As we arrived they were just getting ready to start the first race. 

We then proceeded to walk to Horton Plaza and my old office (Federal Building) when we came across a protest march for the Occupy Wall Street group.

On Friday the weather was colder and overcast so it dampened our plans for Balboa Park.  We still went to the park and rode our bikes around but it did get fairly cold so we packed up the bikes and went to Old Town for lunch and a pitcher of margaritas to warm us up and to forget the cold!

We finished the day by taking a drive up the coast to see our old neighborhood in Oceanside.  We lived there for about 3 years in the mid-80’s.  As could be expected the area had gotten very busy and the neighborhood had begun somewhat rundown.

Here is our updated map for our 9 month anniversary