San Diego II

We couldn’t help but spend some time in our favorite place of all – Silver Strand State Beach outside of Coronado Island. Lucky for us our BFF’s, Teresa Bell and Ron Ezra, joined us for a couple weeks. We biked a lot, and found several geocaches, ones we hadn’t found in previous visits. There weren’t many that we hadn’t already found, but we got a handful.

While making our way to the Vikings/Rams game on the USC campus, we managed to stumble on the very first Fat Burger shack opened in 1952. While I know it is an iconic part of Americana, I guess I don’t see the need to preserve this. However, the City has determined that it is historical and cannot be removed. A developer is working to incorporate the structure into a housing project!

One would think that we would have explored all there is to explore on Coronado Island, but one would be wrong. Bellezra learned that the home where Frank L. Baum wrote the iconic Wizard of Oz is located in the sleepy residential area of Coronado. Although it is a private residence and not open to visit, we still made our way there, and enjoyed the owners’ efforts to decorate it up a bit.

Ron spotted a Naval vessel in the bay and with his binoculars was able to get the name. He identified it as the USS Bainbridge, which just happened to be one of the Naval destroyers that thwarted the Somali pirates attempt to hijack the ship of Captain Phillips in 2009.

Talk to you soon!