San Diego, California

We finally made it to the FAMCAMP where we had reservations and got settled in. We have friends here that we've know since our grown children were babies. We made a special trip here to see them. We also have an OLC friend here who we've never met but have chatted with for a couple of years and we want to see them.

We went to see our long time friends Alex and Kiki and spend some quality time with them. We use to live next door to them when we were stationed in San Diego and Alex use to baby sit our children from time to time. Jerry said she'd like to have some good home made tamales so Kiki and I went to a Mexican store and got a couple of dozen for lunch.

Jerry wanted to go to Tijuana and do some shopping so we talked Kiki into going along since he speaks Spanish. We spent most of the day buying things to take back home for our kids and friends. I looked like a Donkey hauling all the packages back. She and a lady at the FAMCAMP went down another day and Kiki went with them.

We got together with our OLC friends, John and Carolyn and went out a couple of times for supper. One time they took us to a restaurant over looking the San Diego Bay. The restaurant had "ribs with bar-b-que watermelon" It was supper. They served the ribs on a slice of watermelon and the bar-b-que sauce had a hint of watermelon in it. I have a friend who likes to pick on the waitresses and ask for "bar-b-que watermelon". I ask the waiter for a copy of the menu and some of the sauce for my friend back home. He gave me the sauce but it didn't make it back home, I guess it evaporated.

We went to the area known as Coronado where we lived while stationed in San Diego. They have a famous hotel there the "Hotel Del Coronado" where a lot of movie stars have stayed. The hotel is well over 100 years old.


After leaving Coronado we drove over the "Silver Strand" and Jerry wanted to once again walk in the cold Pacific Ocean waters.

We left San Diego heading to Yuma for a while. We've never been there but have heard a lot about it and can't wait to see it for our selves. The weather was cool when we left San Diego but as soon as we crossed the mountains and got into southern CA desert it got HOT.