San Diego

We have had a wonderful time visiting San Diego. We arrived Saturday, November 26th, at Marina and RV park located on a spit of land about 2 miles south of the Hotel del Coronado. The RV is backed up to the water with the marina and the Coronado Bridge and the lights of San Diego as our view. Evidently, this park (military) was going to be redone, the remodel was started, and then stopped due to some permit issues. Anyway, there are no hookups. But, we’re all set. With our 6 batteries and our solar panel and the sunshine that recharges the batteries, we really don’t need to be hooked up to electricity. The weather has been around 70 degrees since we arrived.
On Sunday we went to the USS Midway – a retired aircraft carrier. We really enjoyed the tour. They have lots of docents available to give tours and answer questions. In the afternoon we went to Old Town San Diego. It was pretty busy and we had to park about ½ a mile away. We especially enjoyed touring the Old Town State Historic Park. Inside the park there is original adobe mansion that was the heart of social and religious activities during the Mexican Period. Also, here we enjoyed the Seeley Stables a museum that had original state coaches, Studebaker wagon, and freight wagons from the 1800’s.
Monday was our day for the San Diego Zoo. We started our day bright and early – arriving at opening time at 9:00am. We walked most of the zoo. We enjoyed seeing koala eating breakfast, the pandas – one who was eating bamboo, baby lions eating beef scraps, elephants, kangaroos, giraffes – you name it – I think we saw it. After walking around for about 3 ½ hours, we hopped on a bus tour and saw a few things we had missed. After arriving back at Coronado we took a walk on the beach. And, since it was almost sunset we enjoyed a glass of wine and appetizer outside at the Hotel del Coronado.
Tuesday we took a tour of the Hotel del Coronado. The tour was two hours of interesting information about the hotel. The hotel was built in 1878 and originally had 450 rooms. A power plant was built to supply electricity to the hotel during the construction and this was the first place in the United States to be completely powered by electricity. This afternoon I took a bike ride leaving our RV park and riding along a bike path to the ferry landing. Bob came and picked me up. He didn’t ride his bike as his bike tire was totally flat.