La Villa de Zaragoza 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>

... the journey took longer then we thought.<br><br>We just made it to the drop off location at San Diego airport for the agreed time of 4pm and, after being cordially rinsed for the petrol and extra days hire, donned our rucksacks once again and jumped straight onto the conveniently located trolley (train) service which transported us through downtown San Diego and all the way to the Mexican border - San Ysidro!<br><br>Phase one of the mission was complete ...

... but for the benefit of this blog i am trying to go back as to how i felt in that particular time) Not wanting to draw too much attention from some of the what seemed unsavory characters hanging around outside of the bars and such. We heading into the McDonald's to use the toilet as a mask to get some money out to change to pesos.As would become a popular theme the toilets were inaccessible without paying for them and as i told Elena this at the restaurant table as we only had ...

... But the for overnight parking, its easier to just park at the airport and trolley down to the border. As always, I didn't get any Mexican pesos, but was planning on hitting the ATM on the Mexican side. Now to cross into the Mexican side you have to go over this bridge that zig zags until you reach the top, then the bridge crosses over about 18 lanes of road until you zigzag back down on the opposite side of the road, then you have more to walk until you can hear from the ...

... was a 'cross between a donkey and a zebra' basically looking like a little donkey with stripes on it! The guy, who yes we had paid to have our photo taken on it - (like some attractions in Asia), told us to both sit on the saddle on the donkey. I was worried with both of us well built Aussies sitting on the donkey that we might break it, but it didn't seem to be fussed with all the weight on it. SO anyway our cute looking donkey, zebra was friendly, but we weren't convinced about ...

... I found the temperature to be 80 degrees with the thermostat set on 62 degrees. I phoned the front desk, and they checked some things and called me back a couple minutes later saying they would send someone to move me to the Royal Tower at the hotel. So now I am in my new, much cooler, room. The room is also much nicer; I have a very large bathroom a couch, chair, desk, four-post California king bed, and my favorite, an air conditioner! Tomorrow I have decided ...

... ale v tom momente som sa nejako mentalne odpojil od toho ako som bol stale spojeny so Slovenskom a teraz je to tak trochu iny pocit - uz som sa tu tento tyzden naozaj zabyval. :-) Vcera som si vymyslel, ze si kupim jazdiace auto za $500, aby som mohol jazdit po okoli a popripade stretat ludi, co tu potrebujem stretat kvoli biznisu. Tak ako mam vo zvyku, som si vcera vecer pred spanim napisal do poznakoveho bloku: "Do stvrtka ...