San Diego Trip

This is the first page in my journal.  Notice how mountains always find their way into my journal?  I love spreading them across the whole page because that's how I see them in front of us while driving.

That drive into California was something.  Went from sea level to 4000 ft on winding, twisting roads from El Campo into San Diego (I-8 for those that might know this route).  Once in San Diego, it was all the California traffic that I have heard stories about.  What a nightmare!  6 lanes of cars and trucks going as fast as they can.  Yikes!  But I did it.

We stayed at the Naval Air Station because DH was a Marine at this base on North Island when the Marines controlled it.  Now the Navy is in charge.

Let me just say that this base is 5x4 mile maze, but we finally found our way around.

We all told him he probably would not recognize anything from those days....and he didn't, it was all completely different.

 One of the things he wanted to see was the Del Cornado Hotel (in the background) because there were military meetings there at one time.  It is a huge beautiful place on the ocean and really the centerpiece of the island.

The concierge was so nice; she opened the Crown room so he could see it and walk through it.  He said the ceiling used to be draped in red velvet.  This is the building you see in the photo above with the big red roof.

You can see why it is called the crown room.

We had the breakfast buffet on Friday and the bottom half of my sketch (above) was in there.  I used the kalanchoe plant on our table with the background looking out the windows to the ocean.  I took my sketchbook with me everywhere and tried to squeeze in as many sketches as I could.

We spent three hours walking around there enjoying everything there was to see.  I did manage to find some daisies growing on the grounds (bottom right corner of journal page).

It's going to take me a few days to show you everything.  Such an interesting town.