Day Trip To San Diego

Wednesday, February 4, Jason and I had planned on going to Seattle for the day.  We weren't really keen on waking up too early, though, and we ended up getting to the airport too late to get seats on the STAR flight to Seattle.  At the last minute the gate agent changed us over to the Salt Lake City flight, and it was a spur of the moment trip to San Diego from there.

It was a quick hop to SLC, and then we literally boarded an Alaska flight right next to the Horizon plane we stepped off of.  From there it was about 1.75 hours to San Diego.  Warm sun greeted us.  We rode the bus to downtown, from the airport, and I took Jason through the Maritime museum.  We also splurged a little on a lunch at Anthony's Seafood Bar & Grill.  I had an appetizer of clam chowder, and then a fish platter.

Included in the admission was a harbor cruise (which I didn't do last time I was in San Diego).  So we got about a 45 minute boat ride on an old harbor patrol boat that the museum operates.

At that point we still had some time to kill.  So we went to the Santa Fe Depot and took one of the trains to "Old Town".  When we got there we browsed a couple shops that we didn't find interesting.  However, we finally found Old Town hidden inside an old park.  It's not easy to find if you don't know what you're looking for.  We only had time to explore a couple buildings, one of them being a cigar shop, and a couple general stores.

We didn't leave without a couple samples, and made sure to grab one for a friend in Boise.  Unfortunately we didn't have enough time left to explore the rest of the shops.  It was pretty neat though, with everyone dressed up from the 1800's and running the stores.

We caught an Alaska flight back to Portland.  Our plan was, to hopefully run down to the Horizon gates and make the last flight into Boise for the night.  And if we were too late, we would be in position to catch the first flight into Boise the following morning.

Unfortunately for us, we were seated in the back of the plane and everyone took their sweet time getting off the plane.  Then, in the hurry to rush to the gate and make the cutoff time, we ran in the wrong direction.  When we finally made it to the Horizon gates we were 2 minutes late, and were stuck in Portland until morning.