San Diego!

October 2020

I lived in San Diego for about 25 years, Hector even longer, so there’s a lot of connections there, both family and old friends. We have to be a bit careful when we return that we don’t get overwhelmed by all the folks we would love to see but just don’t have time for. Popularity is really a curse. We made this trip about seeing family and some of our oldest friends.

Because of covid we opted to not bring our filthy travel germs into anybody’s home, so we just rented a 2 bedroom apartment on VRBO. Located near Balboa Park, this place was new, spotless and very comfortable. Find it here. It was just under $200 per night, and a healthy walk to the Park, Hillcrest, and Little Italy. It had a laundry so we were immediately like college students washing all our travel rags. We stayed a whole week and it was really a pleasure to be some place longer than 2 or 3 nights after a month of being on the road.

October in San Diego is a great time, and there was a lot of outdoor restaurant socializing and awkward quasi-distancing in public areas. We met friends in Little Italy, and at Coasterra. I have to say that San Diego was only so-so with the mask business but it was easy to stay within our pods. Our friend Orrie let us store our car in his parking garage for a month as we made preparations to head to the next stop, Puerto Vallarta.