San Diego 2

 

Since we stayed in a central location on our most recent visit to San Diego, I thought I’d have the opportunity to walk around and check out the city. 

What I soon found out is that San Diego is not a walking city.  

I was able to visit Little Italy on foot. 

But all the other interesting neighborhoods seemed to be a bit too far to walk to from the Embarcadero.

So we took a bus tour to see a bit more of the city. 

 

The tour took two hours, but we barely had time to stop at each location, confirming that SD is a series of neighborhoods that are stretched out, with little in between. 

Clearly the thing to do was to hop on and off the bus along the way. 

But that would not have helped when we were whizzing past the really cool bridge. 

I’m not sure how I could have captured that. 

Drone maybe?

 

Here’s the link to the pics from the Embarcadero…

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2022/10/port-of-san-diego.html

And some from the zoo...

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2021/12/san-diego-zoo-3.html

Cheers!

PJ

 

© 2023 PJ Lehrer

Port of San Diego

On our recent trip to San Diego we decided to stay on the Embarcadero and check out the boat action.

There were lots to be seen.

Multiple cruise ships – some with ears - pulled in while we were asleep and greeted us in the morning.

The Love Boat – which appeared to be the largest and newest one had a huge movie screen on the top deck. The sound was so loud that one day when I was sitting in front of the hotel I heard: “I feel pretty. Oh, so pretty…”

There were lots of options for Navy fans as well. The Maritime Museum had some beautiful old ships.

While the USS Midway was perfect for fans of planes too.

And of course, there were also some locals in sailboats to enjoy.

A few beautifully placed sculptures didn’t hurt either – a super-sized kiss from Seward Johnson

and an equally large baseball player from Niki de Saint Phalle.

It’s clearly a great place to be at sea.

Here are some sunset shots from our last visit to San Diego…
https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2020/03/mission-bay.html

Cheers!
PJ

© 2022 PJ Lehrer

Mission Bay

Even though we haven't had much of a winter in NYC, 

it has still gone down below freezing on several days. 

So we decided a trip to some place warm was in order.  

We have relatives in San Diego, and I haven't visited in decades,

so it seemed like an ideal time to go.  

Since one thing we don't get to see in Manhattan is the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean, 

we decided to get a room with a view in Mission Bay.  

And, as I had hoped I did get some pretty sunset shots for future use in artwork.  

Also some boat and marina pics.  

But what really blew me away was this shot of the full snow moon setting at dawn.  Such a pretty purple sky.  

Here are the blogs from the San Diego Zoo...

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2020/02/san-diego-zoo-1.html

https://pj-studio.blogspot.com/2020/03/san-diego-zoo-2.html

Cheers!

PJ

(c) 2020 PJ Lehrer