San Diego - Day 3

6/14/2012      Thursday

I went to Seaport Village, Gaslamp Quarter, and Coronado Island where Hotel Del Coronado is located.

I found Seaport Village is a tourist site where they sell souvenirs, baking goods, jewelries and fast food to tourists.  Although it is sitting right next to a port where I can see the 75 Freeway that leads to Coronado Island.

Gaslamp Quarter....The oldest house of Gaslamp is disappointing....I thought it would be sitting within an area of old houses, but no, it's sitting within the perimeter of modern cityscape.

Hotel Del Coronado is a big nice surprise.  IT has a lot more nice scenaries of the beach, architecture, outdoor plaza and boats than what I had saw in the past 2 days.  I totally love the buildings of Hotel Del Coronado and the interior inside the hotel.  It has this very 19th century style of furnishing and decorative touch to it.  The hotel is pretty dark on the inside, all dark wood and dark brown carpet.  But when it comes to the hotel rooms, that section is totally about white paint and skinny long wood.  It's a very nice combination of dark values versus light values.

San Diego - Day 2

6/13/2012      Wed.


The 2nd day of San Diego is all about Old Town San Diego, Art Village at Bolboa Park and Bolboa Park itself.

The Old Town is full of Mexican restaurants with elaborate cultural designs that reminded me of flowers, food, wine, and tacos.  The color scheme is earth tone for sure.  Old Town San Diego covers three streets; Juan Street, San Diego Avenue, and Congress Street.  Within this area, there are souvenir shops of greeting cards, spicy sauce, soaps, post cards, ice cream, watches, clocks, ghost house museum, stable, gift shops, and again, lots of restaurants. 

There is a trolley service that actually starts from Old Town San Diego and covers major attractions in San Diego.  For example, Boalboa Park, Seaworld, Coronado Island, Hotel Del Coronado, US Midway Museum, Seaport Village, etc.

I'm looking at today's trip as a nice way of looking at how art and life are being intertwined and interpreted in San Diego.  For sure, San Diego has a lot more casual mood going on than in Los Angelos.

San Diego - Day 1

6/12/2012     Tues.

The first day of San Diego trip is all about checking out the USS Midway Museum.  I'm looking at how the ship was designed, built, constructed and adjusted to meet the requirement of each assignment that it received in the past.

Midway is a retired ship that once was posted in Japan for 18 years until 1992.  I went to the soldiers' quarter (bunk beds bedroom with a huge red electricity fan), commanding room, deck (with many air crafts in display), etc.