Goodbye San Diego - Hello Los Angeles

06/08/2007 by Russell.

What a final day we had in Diego.  We were more adventurous, visiting the bay area and over the bridge to the Coronado.  Famous for it’s wooden structured hotel, La Coronado.

Visited abeach up the island, which wasn’t to Greg’s satisfaction, so moved back towards the famous hotel.  As usual, able to pull up outside the seafront in a prime slot. 

Ambled into hotel, had free glass of Lemonade, and saw the splendid interior.  It is regarded as a national treasure, and has a fantastic lift (old caged thingy) and wooden staircase to die for.  It was the first hotel in the west to have electricity and I think a lift.  It was also used as a backdrop to ‘Some Like it Hot’ movie and has hosted presidential dinners - Nixon, Reagan…and the beach was great.

In the evening we ventured downtown in the dark with a rough notion where wanted to be, took us 3/4 of an hour but we found the ‘Corvette Diner’ complete with Corvette inside the diner.  Fantastic, a woman took the SUV to be parked, and we had ice cream shakes, great burger and the dj even played a request for E and G - ‘Let’s twist again like last summer…is it a bird? is it a plane? ‘NO!’ it’s a twister…you know the one..and that’s it. End of Diego.

Off to drive up to LA - have you seen the number of freeways there are up there? we were lost at times around Diego.

 Hope folks are reading this…

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