Awake: 6:22am Temp 55 sleep 6+09 sunny overnight @ San Diego, CA.
Kathy made eggs over easy, bacon & toasted English muffins for our breakfast this morning.
Early afternoon K & I motored over to the Hillcrest area, which is just northwest of Balboa Park & found a parking spot for our car.
On foot, we toured the active University Street from east to west. Hillcrest is where we located (2) of the (3) hidden bridges; but we are not bridge looking today, we are somewhat curious about the people activity here & would like to learn more about: "what's happening?"
Hillcrest is a neighborhood known for its diversity & locally-owned businesses, including restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs & thrift stores. It's known to locals as "The Village in the City."
Going east, we passed a very crowded restaurant with open doors & windows loaded with young adults, most likely college students & many young professionals. My camera shot does not do the bar & crowd justice.
Not far from the 1st bar-restaurant, we came to another similar active bar-restaurant with music & talk even larger & louder than the 1st.
Heading west, we passed Winn's Barbara Shop; doing business since 1943; a very popular & reasonably priced haircutting spot in town.
Next we passed a wonderful mural of a hardware store; not like the ole days, this store was open for business on a Sunday.
Then a large grocery store, "Whole Foods." Out of curiosity, Kathy wanted to peruse this place (we'd been in other Whole Foods stores in other cities). So (35) min later, we had seen & checked a lot of their wares (tasted some) convincing us that yes, this is a very good store but also a little more costly than we like.
Kathy even pointed out that:
"This little pig went to market!"
Continuing our direction west, we more or less, reached the end of activity & decided to head south by one block, then paralleling our direction by going back east again.
I mentioned to Kathy that we'd been seeing a lot of things but where are the churches? Amazing enough, on the next block, the view opened up & there were (3) churches to be seen on various corners.
Not only that, but walking parallel to our street, was an angel. Wow! I called to her & politely asked if I might take her picture. She cooperated nicely but her wings didn't flutter like I had hoped they would.
Continuing east on this residential street, we admired the old homes along the way; some looking very good, others showing their age in faded, chipped paint & lack of attention to landscaping.
We walked about (4-5) blocks in this direction & then....up ahead was a sign: "Dead End." Ugh! We didn't want to reverse our direction & use up the time doing it...but what choice did we have.
Just then, a young man was walking the street toward us; we asked the fellow if there was any other walking route we could take to continue walking east. "Nope" he told us.
OK, so we had to reverse course & double back; we walked about ½ block & we both saw a short dead end street with an electrical boom & the electrician doing some work on an overhead transformer. My curiosity led us both further into this dead end street.... & then, "WE SAW IT," the 3rd mysterious hidden bridge. WOW!
And guess what? On the other side of this bridge was the parking lot for Trader Joe's & that is where we parked our Suzuki.
This bridge was rebuilt in 1995 & is decorated with some very meaningful poetry written on the fence along the way. We fraternized Trader Joe's, purchasing organic milk, wild Alaska Cod, mango, taco shells, etc. Then motored back to our home-on-wheels. Total walk distance: (3.1) miles.
In the motorhome, we Skyped Nick for about (15) min...but our poor Apple had such low signals, we had to give up for the night.
We called Katrina in Littleton; another surprise: she was home in her condo. Using our patch cord, we gabbed for 26 min. Katrina told us that the mountains finally had some good snow & she's been enjoying a lot of snowboarding. She also told us she snowboarded a black & double black for the 1st time from the highest lift in North America + loved every min of it.
Dinner: Lamb chops, pasta & a mixed salad.
Evening movie: "A Street Car named Desire." We watch 1/2.
Lights out: 12:34am.
Kathy made eggs over easy, bacon & toasted English muffins for our breakfast this morning.
Early afternoon K & I motored over to the Hillcrest area, which is just northwest of Balboa Park & found a parking spot for our car.
On foot, we toured the active University Street from east to west. Hillcrest is where we located (2) of the (3) hidden bridges; but we are not bridge looking today, we are somewhat curious about the people activity here & would like to learn more about: "what's happening?"
Hillcrest is a neighborhood known for its diversity & locally-owned businesses, including restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs & thrift stores. It's known to locals as "The Village in the City."
Going east, we passed a very crowded restaurant with open doors & windows loaded with young adults, most likely college students & many young professionals. My camera shot does not do the bar & crowd justice.
Not far from the 1st bar-restaurant, we came to another similar active bar-restaurant with music & talk even larger & louder than the 1st.
Heading west, we passed Winn's Barbara Shop; doing business since 1943; a very popular & reasonably priced haircutting spot in town. Next we passed a wonderful mural of a hardware store; not like the ole days, this store was open for business on a Sunday. Then a large grocery store, "Whole Foods." Out of curiosity, Kathy wanted to peruse this place (we'd been in other Whole Foods stores in other cities). So (35) min later, we had seen & checked a lot of their wares (tasted some) convincing us that yes, this is a very good store but also a little more costly than we like.
Kathy even pointed out that: "This little pig went to market!"
Continuing our direction west, we more or less, reached the end of activity & decided to head south by one block, then paralleling our direction by going back east again. I mentioned to Kathy that we'd been seeing a lot of things but where are the churches? Amazing enough, on the next block, the view opened up & there were (3) churches to be seen on various corners.
Not only that, but walking parallel to our street, was an angel. Wow! I called to her & politely asked if I might take her picture. She cooperated nicely but her wings didn't flutter like I had hoped they would.
Continuing east on this residential street, we admired the old homes along the way; some looking very good, others showing their age in faded, chipped paint & lack of attention to landscaping.
We walked about (4-5) blocks in this direction & then....up ahead was a sign: "Dead End." Ugh! We didn't want to reverse our direction & use up the time doing it...but what choice did we have.
Just then, a young man was walking the street toward us; we asked the fellow if there was any other walking route we could take to continue walking east. "Nope" he told us.
OK, so we had to reverse course & double back; we walked about ½ block & we both saw a short dead end street with an electrical boom & the electrician doing some work on an overhead transformer. My curiosity led us both further into this dead end street.... & then, "WE SAW IT," the 3rd mysterious hidden bridge. WOW!
And guess what? On the other side of this bridge was the parking lot for Trader Joe's & that is where we parked our Suzuki.
This bridge was rebuilt in 1995 & is decorated with some very meaningful poetry written on the fence along the way. We fraternized Trader Joe's, purchasing organic milk, wild Alaska Cod, mango, taco shells, etc. Then motored back to our home-on-wheels. Total walk distance: (3.1) miles.
In the motorhome, we Skyped Nick for about (15) min...but our poor Apple had such low signals, we had to give up for the night.
We called Katrina in Littleton; another surprise: she was home in her condo. Using our patch cord, we gabbed for 26 min. Katrina told us that the mountains finally had some good snow & she's been enjoying a lot of snowboarding. She also told us she snowboarded a black & double black for the 1st time from the highest lift in North America + loved every min of it.
Dinner: Lamb chops, pasta & a mixed salad.
Evening movie: "A Street Car named Desire." We watch 1/2.
Lights out: 12:34am.
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