New Port Beach Hotel Tijuana

... 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>

... further into the country than Tijuana we needed to complete a temporary visa card. It was too good to be true. So off we trundled back to the non-descript white building which had an office at the end containing an unassuming but still burly, cookie-cutter customs official. They&#8217;re normally right in your face. They obviously believe in the concept of manana here in Mexico. We filled out the form and he sent us down to the bank hatch to pay our ...

... Mexican side of the border. <br><br>Going over the overpass you have a clear view of both lanes that mark the border. On the right hand side are the cars going into Mexico which seems to be a pretty flowing systems in effect to that the cars just slow down barley even stopping as some kind of id is flashed and then they are waved through to be let loose on the other side. The border to get into the states however was a very different story with back to back traffic taking up all ...

... 6 dollars, now that varies from 3.5 -8 dollars from all my previous visits. As we arrived to this hospital, which is gated I hand him a 20$ bill, and of course, I want to kick myself, them cabbies never have change, he did make the effort to to get some change. At first I thought, I got suckered into it, but then changed my frame of thought he needs it more that I do. So I put him through my goodness test and explained that that's the last 20$ I had, and needed a ride to ...

... blanket, and the mandatory magnet. It was very interesting in the city as one of the other very common shops that you also read about in the paper that was present was the Pharmacy! Very cheap medications sold!! Apparently very popular as well for the Americans to do a day trip over to pick up medications. A big one they were selling for cheap was Viagra!!! Lol Liquor shops also very popular and it really is very cheap over here!!!! Big litre bottle of spirits are about $10 ...

I know I've been back for about a month now, but the website was acting up and wouldn't allow me to post anything. I still thought you might be interested in reading this though...it's a journal entry I wrote while I was on the ship that I wanted to share before I returned home. Hope this gives you some insight to how I felt and continue to feel about being and coming home. We talk about it on the ship all the time. We say, "what are you going to say to people when they ask, 'how ...

... je jedna velka pracka a jedna susicka. Vyprat jednu davku stoji $0,75 a vysusit $0,50. Ale stoji to za to. :-) Dnes bolo na slnku poriadne horuco. Nacvicovali sme skladanie nasho stanku na vystavu v San Franciscu a poriadne pripekalo. Ale inak som ani nezbadal, ze som v Kalifornii, lebo som bol cely cas v office. No myslim, ze si budem musiet davat obednajsie prechadzky pod palmami. :-) Uzite si dnesny den, ja idem akurat do postele. :-)

... liquor stores. We didn't get any liquor since it wasn't as cheap as Cancun was when I went there for spring break back in 1999. So, after walking around and getting propositioned by everyone there we got back on the autobus. The traffic getting through customs across the border took an hour in itself. Finally, we are on our way to Anaheim, CA to see an Anaheim Angels game starting at 5:05 PT.