San Diego is a great walking city

It's a beautiful morning in San Diego.

 

CJ is off on a walk.  It's nearly three miles from the hotel to the US Coast Guard Station across from the airport. Along the way one traverses a path along the waterfront with the bay to your left and downtown San Diego to the right. It's an easy walk because there is so much to see and keep one busy.

There is first the marina attached to the hotel.  Next one passes the Seaport Village with its shops and restaurants. Various port buildings grace the waterfront. The imposing USS Midway museum, a floating testimonial to US aircraft carriers and Naval air power comes next.  There are a number of commercial docks that load tourist boats. Eventually one comes across another nautical museum which began years ago with the sailing ship Star of India. Over the years a Russian submarine, US submarine, SWAN riverine boat, two sailing ships and the HMS Surprise, star of the Russell Crowe movie, Master and Commander have been added.

 

Quite some ways farther along one comes to the airport and USCG station. Today a helo departs as CJ arrives in the vicinity of the station.

By the time he returns some 80 minutes later, he's soaking wet. He was keeping a decent pace for the majority of the walk but when two women passed and toasted him, he became frustrated at not being able to pick up the pace.  A couple of hot twenty something's about 50 yards ahead of him solved the pace problem. Hot pursuit picked up the pace quite swimmingly.

Carol finally ventured out and it was for lunch.  We walked to Stone Brewing for lunch and a sampling of their brews. Stone is located adjacent to PETCO Park, home of the San Diego Padres.Unlike most MLB ball parks, part of the park is open as a public part.  In fact one could jump a short three foot fence and have access to the entire park.

 

The next stop is Mission Brewing which after four samples hasn't floated our boat. The best part is the old building and its architecture.

 

 

 

After returning to our room to release CJ's back and Carol's foot, we enjoy a nice sunset over Point Loma.

Once again make the short walk into the Gaslamp District to one of our two favorite sushi restaurants on the planet, Taka.

This place has the freshest uni (sea urchin) on the planet.  Once upon a time back in December of 2004 when CJ was finally released from seven weeks of seven long day weeks, he walked into this place and had them build him a "mountain of uni", a gorgeous stack of nothing but uni that cost about $80.

 This evening in addition to the uni, we enjoy ankimo (monkfish liver) or what we call Japanese foie gras, ama ebi (raw shrimp sushi with fried shrimp heads), the spectacular special roll of the day and a raw tuna, avocado and quail egg preparation. The sushi chefs were a lot of fun.

 

 

 

 

 Back at the hotel Carol had a couple of barrel-aged old fashions and CJ enjoyed another of their honey black ales.