San Diego: Day 1

After spending my first morning in San Diego getting hopelessly lost (Verizon's VZ Navigator is cheap for a reason), I finally found Balboa Park. I wandered around looking at art and jewely in the artist's area. Then I grabbed my Nook, got a snack, and settled on a bench to listen to a guy playing music and read for a while. While I was there, I had a nice conversation with a homeless guy named Teddy.

The park is huge. Everywhere I turned, there was more to see: a desert garden, a rose garden, and then the vistas beyond. Inside the park are theaters, and a conservatory of music type of thing where kids take music lessons. It's like a beautiful world that is completely separate from the bustling city. Which was really nice because driving in California completely stressed me out. Everything you've ever heard about Californians being lad back is a lie.

Later that afternoon, I picked up Monica at work. She said her goodbyes to her friends in the Radiology department. She was sad to leave, but we were excited about our upcoming excellent adventure.

San Diego: Day 2

Monica and I spent the day getting things organized, mailing boxes of clothes to her home in Atlanta, and returning her cable box. We had dinner at the Pizza Grotto, and when we went home, we felt unusually exhausted. We decided to go to bed early so we could get up early, get packed, and go. We wanted to be ready to work at peak efficiency the next day.

San Diego: Day 3

I woke up on my third day in San Diego, too sick to move. I lay on the couch that was my bed, alternating between feverish dreams and wondering if I was going to die. Monica wasn't feeling much better.


We also discovered that there was a huge winter storm barrelling down on most of the country. We knew we would have to forego Route 66, but didn't know which other route would be safer. At any rate, we were really too sick to care.

San Diego: Day 4

When we woke up on Monday morning, we were both still sick. Very sick. Skip-all-meals-and-sleep-all-day sick. We decided to forego packing and roadtripping for another day.