California, San Diego

We arrived into LAX, got a car and decided to cruise south down the Pacific Coast. The weather was awesome and the coast line a lot more built up than we remembered with lots of really nice beaches. We had come to the land of beautiful bodies hanging out, fast expensive cars passing you at ridiculous speeds on some pretty crowded highways. Ok its not like that everywhere but sure felt like it driving the coast.

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We made our way to San Diego or Coronado which seemed to be a place where lots of people came over to enjoy the beaches and eat at the many restaurants in town.

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One day we caught the ferry over to town where it was so nice to see the sailboats in the bay with the city in the background. We wandered around the Gaslamp area, which really was just a city area, probably better at night given the number of bars and restaurants about. We ate at the restaurant where Top Gun filmed the scene where Maverick sings to Charlie in the diner with all the navy boys at the bar.

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P1030789I was lucky enough to score free seats at a Padres baseball game, which ended up being just off the third base. Brett couldn’t believe I got the tickets for free and then was impressed at how good the seats were. The Padres won 4 to 3 against the NY Mets after a home run was hit.

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P1030797We finished our trip to California by heading inland to Temecular to visit Bretts family; Laird, Kathi, Justin, Elizabeth, Morgan and Ryan. The highways are incredible in the US, so easy to get around thanks to our trusty GPS.

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P1030803Off to Calgary.