San Diego, CA - Dinner Out

Walk on the beach and then dinner out with Marilyn. Perfect day. Must be a weekday since the beach is almost empty. Weekends bring hordes of people.

We also found a cool sand castle. Look at the young man who designed it - he’s the one in back surveying the work.

Under the Crystal Pier.

When we got back to the RV, we noticed that we had a new neighbor. Is he still hooked-up to his 5th wheel? Sure looks like it. How did he get his truck at 90 degrees? Well, he is actually not still hooked up but just drove very carefully under his trailer.

But, hey, he’s over the white line. Where are we supposed to park? Well, we parked a ways away in the extra parking lot.

The next day, the rangers came over to him and told him that he couldn’t park in our spot. Hmmm. And, why in the world, did he think that he could?

Dinner in town. Marilyn always liked dinner at Spaghetti Factory but hasn’t been there since it closed for renovations several years ago. Her special favorite was spaghetti with buttered mizithra cheese sauce. Gary loves spaghetti and meatballs which we probably don’t have often enough. Me, I'm in heaven with chicken parmigiana. Afterwards we toured the Gaslamp district of San Diego, the tourist, restaurant, bar, shoppe area of the city.

I’m really happy with the nighttime photos that my new camera takes.

Every time we walk along the beach in Coronado we’ve noticed that there are some grassy humps that look fairly deliberate. We’ve never been able to find out what they were for - until we saw this picture on a poster:

Ah, that explains it. Here is what we usually see.

Now, we know that this is the letter ’N’ in CORONADO.

This Coronado story has nothing to do with what we did today - it’s just that I had this little story left over from a trip to Coronado that already had too many pictures and too many words. So I thought I’d throw it in here.

Actually, the picture above is a close-up of the original poster. Here is the whole scene. Very nice. Coronado, the red-roofed Hotel Del, the Coronado Bridge and the city in the background.


Here's something for the 'Did You Know' category. Did you know that the Academy Award statue is named after a librarian's uncle? One day Margaret Herrick, the librarian for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, made the remark that the statue looked like her uncle - and the name stuck. Fancy that.