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San Diego places to visit

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Just got back from five days in San Diego....

Make sure you go to Whiskey Girl's in the Gaslamp District, and be sure to look up a bartender by the name of Danielle. She is probably the best looking woman I've EVER met.

Also, Seaport Village is a nice place to go for dinner/drinking and shopping. And the Gabrillo National Monument on Point Loma was educational and an incredible view of San Diego and Coronado Island (might as well go there, too).

My last day there I rented a car and drove up and down the Pacific Highway. Went to the Mission Bay beach, drove around Point Loma Nazarene University, went to Balboa Park and to the San Diego Zoo.

You could also tour the Midway aircraft carrier, go on a dinner cruise or just hang out at one of the restaurants on the bay. There's too much to see and do to list everyting.

Have fun. San Diego is a beautiful city. Too bad the cost of living is so damn high....
 
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All I can say is WOW!!

I know where I want to retire now!!

Went to:

1) Balboa Park, pretty cool but pricey to go into all of the museums.

2) Gaslamp District, Imagine Arena District times 50 except with low 70 temperatures. Every kind of restaurant and entertainment you could imagine.

3) Coronado Beach, the best beach I've ever been to in America. The beach is the flight line for landing fighter jets at the naval base. Imagine a stadium flyover except lower to the ground. AWESOME!!!

4) Sunset Cliffs, nice but cloudy at sunset.

5) Torrey Pines, probably the coolest place we went. Went to the golf course which is holding the US Open next year. Costs $142 for non-residents but something like $45 for San Diego residents. Course was surprisingly brownish but the walk along the cliffs overlooking the beach was an unbelievable view.

6) La Jolla and Delmar are spectacular places to live and can see why they are some of the most expensive real estate areas in America.

7) Went to Palm Springs for 3 days and the aerial tram to Mount San Jacinto was a close 2nd to Torrey Pines for most memorable things. Went up at sunset and wow!! Was 95 degrees at the boarding terminal and 52 degrees at the top.

It was a cold spell the days we were there and it only got up to 104. Was going to get up to 111 by week's end.

The business and restaurants all have misters that spray all day and night long to cool patrons.

8) Joshua Tree was the most disappointing thing we visited. No one was collecting money so we got in for free but the one thing we wanted to visit, Key Pass I believe it was called, was closed because the road to it had been torn out.

Nothing but a bunch of piles of rocks with random ugly Joshua Trees scattered about.

San Diego is probably my new favorite US city.
 
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Thump;899079; said:
All I can say is WOW!!

I know where I want to retire now!!

Went to:

1) Balboa Park, pretty cool but pricey to go into all of the museums.

2) Gaslamp District, Imagine Arena District times 50 except with low 70 temperatures. Every kind of restaurant and entertainment you could imagine.

3) Coronado Beach, the best beach I've ever been to in America. The beach is the flight line for landing fighter jets at the naval base. Imagine a stadium flyover except lower to the ground. AWESOME!!!

4) Sunset Cliffs, nice but cloudy at sunset.

5) Torrey Pines, probably the coolest place we went. Went to the golf course which is holding the US Open next year. Costs $142 for non-residents but something like $45 for San Diego residents. Course was surprisingly brownish but the walk along the cliffs overlooking the beach was an unbelievable view.

6) La Jolla and Delmar are spectacular places to live and can see why they are some of the most expensive real estate areas in America.

7) Went to Palm Springs for 3 days and the aerial tram to Mount San Jacinto was a close 2nd to Torrey Pines for most memorable things. Went up at sunset and wow!! Was 95 degrees at the boarding terminal and 52 degrees at the top.

It was a cold spell the days we were there and it only got up to 104. Was going to get up to 111 by week's end.

The business and restaurants all have misters that spray all day and night long to cool patrons.

8) Joshua Tree was the most disappointing thing we visited. No one was collecting money so we got in for free but the one thing we wanted to visit, Key Pass I believe it was called, was closed because the road to it had been torn out.

Nothing but a bunch of piles of rocks with random ugly Joshua Trees scattered about.

San Diego is probably my new favorite US city.
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How was the Gay Pride parade?

BP
 
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Joshua Tree is an amazing place. One of the few national parks you can visit without running into a bunch of fatasses or loud mouthed toddlers. Been there twice. You gotta hike to find anything worthwhile which is probably why lazy Thump couldn't stand it.

The Torey Pines state preserve has a great hike to the cliffs on the beach. actually I thinked I linked the picture I took somewhere on this thread.
 
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Thump;899079; said:
All I can say is WOW!!

I know where I want to retire now!!

Went to:

1) Balboa Park, pretty cool but pricey to go into all of the museums.

2) Gaslamp District, Imagine Arena District times 50 except with low 70 temperatures. Every kind of restaurant and entertainment you could imagine.

3) Coronado Beach, the best beach I've ever been to in America. The beach is the flight line for landing fighter jets at the naval base. Imagine a stadium flyover except lower to the ground. AWESOME!!!

4) Sunset Cliffs, nice but cloudy at sunset.

5) Torrey Pines, probably the coolest place we went. Went to the golf course which is holding the US Open next year. Costs $142 for non-residents but something like $45 for San Diego residents. Course was surprisingly brownish but the walk along the cliffs overlooking the beach was an unbelievable view.

6) La Jolla and Delmar are spectacular places to live and can see why they are some of the most expensive real estate areas in America.

7) Went to Palm Springs for 3 days and the aerial tram to Mount San Jacinto was a close 2nd to Torrey Pines for most memorable things. Went up at sunset and wow!! Was 95 degrees at the boarding terminal and 52 degrees at the top.

It was a cold spell the days we were there and it only got up to 104. Was going to get up to 111 by week's end.

The business and restaurants all have misters that spray all day and night long to cool patrons.

8) Joshua Tree was the most disappointing thing we visited. No one was collecting money so we got in for free but the one thing we wanted to visit, Key Pass I believe it was called, was closed because the road to it had been torn out.

Nothing but a bunch of piles of rocks with random ugly Joshua Trees scattered about.

San Diego is probably my new favorite US city.
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Yeah, I love San Diego to be honest, I live about 50 miles north of it in Orange County.

Gaslamp is a lot of fun, there's a lot of areas like that too, Ocean Beach has a similiar feeling to it, lots of bars and cool people with a beach attitude. Though it lacks the Marines wandering about, but for me that's a good thing.

The whole area up there is beautiful, OCBW and I have discussed moving up there but the commute to work would suck, it's a little less expensive than where we live now, but the people are a lot cooler all around. Everytime we go up there to hang out or party we meet tons of really nice people.

As for Joshua Tree, that park is more for off roading and exploring than anything else, you can find land right outside it owned by the state that's not park property so people go caving and shooting around there a lot, it's really hot during the summer because it's mostly desert but in the spring and fall it can be fun to go camping there.

Glad you had a good time, sorry I missed this thread due to work hell, maybe next time you come this way to visit I'll find ya and buy you a beer, or better yet come during football season and you can watch an NFL team actually win for a change :wink2:
 
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tibor75;899169; said:
You gotta hike to find anything worthwhile which is probably why lazy Thump couldn't stand it.
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Had it not been so hot to hike, I may have done it but summer is obviously the off-season for the park. I think we saw about 3 cars and 3 bikers and that's it.

We just wanted to see some nice views like most National Parks are known for but Joshua Tree isn't one of those parks.
 
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Thump;899361; said:
Had it not been so hot to hike, I may have done it but dummer is obviously the off-season for the park. I think we saw about 3 cars and 3 bikers and that's it.

We just wanted to see some nice views like most National Parks are known for but Joshua Tree isn't one of those parks.
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The 2 times I've been there ahve been in late December. Perfect weather.
 
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tibor75;899407; said:
The 2 times I've been there ahve been in late December. Perfect weather.
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We'd been out in the Palm Springs heat all day and just wanted to drive through the park in the evening but there was no one there.

It sucked that the road to Keys Pass was torn out, did you go there?
 
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Thump;899530; said:
We'd been out in the Palm Springs heat all day and just wanted to drive through the park in the evening but there was no one there.

It sucked that the road to Keys Pass was torn out, did you go there?
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yeah, hard to get a good view as the LA pollution white-outs the views.

I hiked up Ryan Mountain and did the Lost Horse Mine hike - those are 2 of the hikes I remember. Both were very good and I barely saw anybody on the trail both times.
 
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Thump;899079; said:
5) Torrey Pines, probably the coolest place we went. Went to the golf course which is holding the US Open next year. Costs $142 for non-residents but something like $45 for San Diego residents. Course was surprisingly brownish but the walk along the cliffs overlooking the beach was an unbelievable view.[/i]
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So how is Black's Beach these days. lol

6) La Jolla and Delmar are spectacular places to live and can see why they are some of the most expensive real estate areas in America.
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If you drove up PCH through Del Mar you drove right by my old house.

I actually came under investigation by NIS for living there because my CO at the time couldn't afford to live in my neighborhood and couldn't believe that a mere Cpl could swing it. :biggrin:
 
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