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2014-06-20 01:01
in Ntrips, Trips
Arturo invited me to join a few of his friends to go diving in San Diego, and we took some extra time to visit San Diego a bit, which I had started some years back, but didn't get to finish.
Arturo and I took an early flight on friday morning to enjoy most of the day in San Diego:

this is where we did our our diving trips from

downtown

Balboa Park where Artruo and I spent quite a bit of time when we weren't diiving
After landing we went to pick up Arturo's compact car :)

From the airport, we went directly to Cabrillo national monument to see the beach/tide pools before the tide rose too much. It was a nice hike by the coast:









Arturo was not much of a photo model, so I had to find other people :)


After the coast, we went to see the Cabrillo monument and went to get some picturs from San Diego and the military base:






how about that, it was a perfect fit :)

On the way back down, we went to check out the cemetary on the side of road back down:


From there, we went to the science museum in Balboa Park and went to see a couple of Imax movies:


Next, we went to the museum of man, which closed later and wasn't bad:






The next day, we met with Bill, Regis and Kyoko for diving, which is on its own page.
After diving on our second day, we had a bit of extra time in the afternoon, so we went back to Balboa Park to see the botanical and Japanese gardens:











Next, we went to San Diego Old Town, starting with Whaley House and then shops in old town:


















The next day, Arturo and I started the day by going to the Midway Aircraft Carrier, which allowed me to see more of the top of the carrier and the command center which I hadn't been able to see last time when I concentrated on the bottom decks.
After that, we went back to Balboa Park and went to the natural history museum:




After it closed at 17:00, we had enough time to enjoy some yummy deserts before heading for the airport to fly home:


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