September 14 - Wednesday; San Diego
Susi took me to the airport EARLY this morning for the flight to San Diego (via Dallas/Ft. Worth). The plane landed about 12:30 pm local time. I made my way to the Metro bus stop outside the airport and caught a bus to Bernie's Bicycle Shop on Cable St.. The bike was assembled and the two boxes I shipped with my gear were waiting for me. I mounted the racks myself and loaded my panniers onto the bike for the ride to the Point Loma Hostel on Udell St. I left the fenders for when I had a little more time at the hostel. I found the hostel with just a little trouble, it is a block off the street I was riding on and I missed it and had to loop back - but only after climbing a couple of really steep hills before I realized I'd gone too far. The hostel is nothing to write home about, but as I indicated to Al in an e-mail last night, in a couple of weeks after tent camping, it'll probably seem pretty good.
After settling in, I finished putting on the fenders - not as bad as I thought it would be. I still need to mount the water bottle holders as they were packed away in one of my panniers. I walked towards Ocean Beach looking for a place to eat dinner. All I'd had to eat all day was a banana at home before we left for the airport (my fault Susi - you tried to get me to take the peanut butter sandwich and bag of cashews. Will I ever listen?!). I wasn't having much luck but finally settled on a grilled chicken salad at a Jack In The Box. Pretty fancy eats eh!
September 15 - Thursday; San Diego
The hostel has free pancake mix for making your own in the morning. I had one this morning then left for the bus stop to head for the San Diego Zoo. $5 lets one ride the MTA buses all day. The zoo was nice - but not the same by myself as when Susi and I last went a few years ago. The first bus goes by the old Navy Training Center (NTS) where I went to boot camp and Electricians Mate "A" school. It has all been turned over to the city or some private developer. I could still see the old barracks where I spent the first half of boot camp. I think they were fairly new in 1972 but boarded up now. Probably soon to be demo'd.
I got back from the Zoo and got off at the public library stop which is next door to the hostel. My plans to use the iTouch for blog updates doesn't appear will work. Blogger no longer works with the internet browser that is on my 1st generation iTouch. Susi checked on FedEx'ing my small laptop but it was going to cost $100 to get it here before the group leaves for the bike tour. So - I'll update as free access is available at public libraries (or hopefully another of the bike group will have a laptop I can borrow every day or so for updates). I haven't taken any photos so far but hope to once the tour group assembles Sunday and Monday.
Not sure what's for dinner tonight. The hostel is hosting a pasta dinner for $5 so maybe I'll do that. Tomorrow I plan to ride my bike to the downtown pier area and tour the Midway aircraft carrier then maybe take to ferry to Coronado and bike down the strand. I think one or two of the others in the tour group are supposed to arrive tomorrow.
No comments:
Post a Comment