If I were to plan this trip again I’d attend the conference first and extend my stay. Instead we came early so I’ve been “waiting” for the conference to start. Not a fun “waiting”, in the back of my mind I always knew it was coming.
The Presidential Plenary started at 5pm so we had most of the day before I had to be back to work. We spent it walking around Balboa Park. It is one of the oldest recreational areas in the US – it was set aside in 1835. It hosted the Panama-California Expo in 1915-16 so has many historical buildings that are now museums. Some you need to pay for, some you do not. It also has many beautiful, if not unusual gardens. The famous Botanical Building was undergoing renovation – boo! But we did enjoy walking through the cactus garden, palm garden, Globe Theater (a replica of the one we saw in London) and the Spanish Village Art Center. Since the food is the typical high price-low quality kind that you’d find in such places, we headed back to the Gaslamp District for a late lunch.
La Puerta’s claim to fame is that it was chosen as one of the top 10 taco places in the US by Fodor’s. It was every bit as good as the tacos we had from the Taco Stand in La Jolla.
Time to get back to work… Jon walked me to the convention center. While I sat in my conference Jon walked around the waterfront.
Jon probably had more fun down by the waterfront.
Halfway Round the Planet, Part 2 