Hacienda del Mar Hotel Tijuana

Not a terribly productive day ... drive to campus (too many cars! too much hyper traffic! no parking!), then back to the hotel, then a walk around the Gaslamp Quarter, then back to campus (too many cars! too much hyper traffic! no parking!), then back to hotel. <br><br>... but I did learn that there is a "Little Italy" in San Diego. I ...

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>

... that we heard the one thing you never want to hear while someone is doing that to you... "I'm going down there now..." After getting back all of my stuff we finally got back outside. If we would have taken an immediate left, we would have been back to the car, but we had lost our bearings and walked straight. We walked about 2 or 3 miles out of our way, but we finally made it back. I hope all of my posts don't sound as negative and pessimistic as this one. :)

... on the top floor by another Mexican artist that i liked but have no idea what he name is now, gonna have to start writing these things down. After that there was not much left to do besides return to the high street. We were now in the swing of things to be fair and felt quite relaxed as we had been there for3 hours and nothing bad of the sort had even faintly happened. so we thought with it being Friday night in Tijuana (drugs, sex and marijuana as the famous song says) and ...

I must confess, crossing the border like this is not necessarily a true way to visit a county, but then again, Tijuana might not necessarily be the true reflection of any country. It was more a 'hot flash', if anything, but we decided that we ...

... restés dans l'avenue principale 'Av Revolución' ou nous avions toute l'attention des marchands puis qu'il y avait peu de touristes autour (hors saison) et ce n'est pas toujours une bonne chose. Au bout de quelques minutes, c'est agacant de se faire interpeller tous les 10 mètres...'Il est pas cher mon polo Lacoste, surtout pour toi, j'te fais un prix d'ami...' Ben voyons!<br><br> <br><br>

... all to walk around at night in this area. Most of the people are dressed very well going out on their Friday night and enjoying the evening. However, when I got to Starbucks, there was a homeless couple with their cart sitting inside at a table. Since when do the homeless drink 5 dollar coffees? I have some pictures for you, not all of today, I downloaded all the pictures from my second camera as I told you about in the previous entry. So some of the pictures you will see are ...

... okolie je chranena prirodna rezervacia. Vstup sem stoji $5 a otvorene je to tu len do 16:30. Ale ked sem pridete, tak od nadhery zatajujete dych. Je odtialto vidno na Coronado, San Diego a Tichy ocean mate pri nohach. Ked zidete dole ku moru, tak vam kormorany lietaju ticho nad hlavami a vy mozte obdivovat morskych zivocichov v "Tide pools" (jazerach vytvorenych prilivom). Dokonca tu maju novy sport ...

Hhmmm... not impressed. Just a place for tourists to duck across the border for cheap grog etc. Lots of beggars and others looking to make a quick buck. Only junk for sale. Bought a bottle of Kaluha - cheap, but that's about all. I reckon we'd have to travel a lot further south to enjoy this place.