Eugene Glover Here’s one of those “father moments” where I really feel connected with my kids. The kids are running around being generally annoying and making roaring noises at each other. James: I’m a baby coelophysis! Roar!! Michelle: I’m a troodon!. Roar! James: I’m attacking you! Roar! James starts to run towards Michelle, imaginary claws drawn. Michelle … Read more
Now, I can make my final judgment on our recent experiment using priceline.com to book our hotels. A brief recap: We decided to book our hotel(s) on a San Diego trip via Priceline’s name your price program. We bid for 3 nights at a minimum 3-star hotel at $75 per night – fully expecting to … Read more
I recognize that my previous post was a bit of a rant, but, I can assure you, dear reader, that had it written it immediately after the event, it would have been positively vitriolic, even by my standards. As it was, it still took three complete re-writes (from scratch) before I thought it down to … Read more
Sometimes people need to learn to pull their heads out of their butts. Personally, I’ve had to hold back this narrative of our last full day in San Diego because of how pissed off I get every time I sat down to write it. I’m just going to divorce myself from commenting on it in … Read more
It was goodbye to the 3-star Woodfin today and hello to the 4-star Omni San Diego. I’ll relate more about the ultimate Priceline experience later, suffice it to say the Omni is a nicer hotel, right next to the Gaslamp district and the convention center – for less money per night. We got out of … Read more
Day three brought us to the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park. Which constitutes a lot of walking and driving around looking at animals. ’nuff said. Afterwards we explored the area, bought some “fresh” california produce from a roadside stand and stopped at Famer Boys Hamburgers, for a decent, if unremarkable late lunch. That put … Read more
Ah, our memories from childhood! Oh, you youngsters don’t remember the days before microwave ovens, or before Domino’s Pizza and Pizza Hut had expanded out and dominated the entire country. In those old days, there were one or two Pizza Huts in town – the old kind, with no delivery and a table-top video game … Read more
Getting out fairly early, after a breakfast of toaster waffles, we headed towards Legoland, which is 20-30 miles north of our hotel. First we had to stop at a nearby (to LegoLand) outlet mall and pick up our three-day passes to San Diego’s major attractions. While we were there I stopped, for the very first … Read more
It’s a bit of a fudge to call this “day one”. Any trip road trip to San Diego involves basically wasting all day on the 376.01 mile drive over. Even though we left at 8:30AM, we didn’t arrive at the hotel until 5:00PM. It’s really one barren, desolate wasteland, with Yuma smack dab in the … Read more
9:02 AM 24 Km from home Less than 20 minutes into a 6 hour drive. James says, “Are we almost there yet?”