Or... my trip to San Diego.
Work sent me to a conference here for a few days, and I got as much else done as I could. That included venturing around the bay where my hotel was located to
Luigi's at the Beach, which is an amazingly awesome pizza (pepperoni pesto) /seafood (lobster ravioli) / beer (lots of local SD brews) place with umpteen high def tv screens. I mean really, it's amazing how many tv's they fit into that small place.
Also checked out
Belmont Park, which has a pretty decent wooden roller coaster called The Giant Dipper. There's also a nice boardwalk that runs up and down the long beach. I saw a nice (tiny) three bed / two bath beach side condo for sale - only $860,000. Anyone wanna go halvsies?
My first "big adventure," though, was my trip to Target. Long story short, I needed pants. Like, nice pants. Hotel front desk said Target, so off I went. I was going to take the bus - it was only 2 miles away. But I got impatient and just started walking. And then I kept on walking. Then I saw that the Mission Bay Dr. bridge wasn't pedestrian friendly, so I took an alternate route. Through the homeless folks, the park, the dog park, and lots of busy roads.
An hour and a half later... I finally made it. It was a long, stupid walk, and it ended up being 3.7 miles. I illustrate below (click for larger image):
The coolest thing about the trip, though, was how I got back to the hotel. I'd been Tweeting (
here) about my walk the entire time, and my friend
Lawrence Eng, being from San Diego, took notice. You probably don't remember, but Lawrence was the person most responsible (with Espen a close second!) for my trip to San Francisco a couple of years ago (
here).
And being a kind hearted individual, Lawrence called and offered to pick me up and take me to lunch (
here and
here)! \o/ (Don't worry, Opera employees... We talked shop!)
Then the conference happened. Yada yada yada.
Got done early Friday, so my coworker and I decided to hit up Sea World. It's definitely nice to walk around a park like that at this time of year when there aren't many people. Oh, and by the way... they serve beer there.
And now I present to you the picture album from the trip. I worked (semi)hard on the captions. Enjoy.
