City Express Tijuana Rio

... it's made up -- they had a couple of Italian restaurants along one street and so deemed it Little Italy. Probably very cynical of me. The W Hotel is happening tonight ... some big wine tasting event. Lots of sleek young bodies in high heels and/or tight pants. Both men and women. Very amusing. I definitely felt out of place ... <br>

At work all day, then late afternoon flight. No problems with flight at all ... arrived, got rental car, then drove the few miles to the W Hotel. Very swank. The "living room" bar was happening ... but we just went to our rooms, then met for dinner at Rice, the embedded restaurant, which serves Cuban/Asian fusion. Food was fine, not fab.<br><br>Room is fun ... there's a chalkboard (that received a bit of J. Alfred Prufrock from me) and a window seat. And the linens are wonderful.<br><br><br>

From the Pacific to the Atlantic to where the Pacific meets the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Atlantic and back to the Pacific. Phew! What a ride its been. I am back in Cali (again). Heather picks me up from the airport and we sleep on her new sailboat! First time for everything! I have the best sleep of my life. We get up the next morning and ...

Wasn't as bad as I had read about, crossing the border into Tijuana. <br>If you are just going down for the 72 hour or less visit and don't have anything to declare, then you pretty much just drive right through ~ though you may be stopped for an inspection, which really isn't that much to worry about, just a quick check through your vehicle ...

... about 8 miles away and when we pulled onto the main street it became a clear that this was a truly a tourist fed town. The main drag was made up of basically bars, restaurants and shops that sold things like over sized sombreros, maracas and everything else you can think of with the world Tijuana written on it. Our hotel was one that we had found in the guide book and was situated right on the main street in between a bar and taco joint. The steps leading up to it take you away ...

This is it, our last stop in California. We departed Malibu mid morning on Wednesday, August 6. The trip to San Diego is a 3 hr drive but with a few stops along the way and the very heavy, insane traffic getting through LA it took close to 5 hours. It was 6 lanes of traffic doing 10 miles an hour through the city for much our drive. Can you imagine rush hour? After clearing the smog in LA we made a pit stop in Santa Ana which is about half way to San ...

... had a sign in the bus about tipping in America and how it is expected as it is what makes up to person's daily wage in some jobs and Papi had driven us there then had to wait in the bus for a number of hours in car park(how boring!) for us then drive back. We thought it was really rude of some of the older tourists - who should know better! Not to tip him anything in a country where tipping is expected! The mother and daughter we noticed also tipped generously after their own ...

... ended up winning by just under 30 points. Rick did get held up going in as we had our cameras with us (had them all day) and they wouldn't let him take the video on. We didn't want to take it back to the car so ended up being escorted by security to a Guest Link place where we had the option of handing it over to them and having it locked up until the end of the game. We did remove the battery though so they couldn't view anything (not that they would but you never know). 28th December ...

... couple and an irish guy and later some english girls just chilled out around the place and was ready tog o to bed when i met a guy that worked there kinda a strange stoner but i went for a blaze anyway and we tlake dnormally and then he told me how christian he was and how he doesnt like to preach or change ppl and each to their own good-you'd think right! No, no matter hows hard i tried to change the convo he just kept goin on about all the stuff the bible says and preaches ...