Los Angeles & San Diego

Leonard and I recently went on a five day mini-trip to L.A. and San Diego to escape the Vancouver rain. We took a 7am flight to LAX and were on our way by noon to our rental apartment on Melrose in West Hollywood, an excellent location. He took me on a whirlwind tour of the city, including the farmer's market, the Getty, Hollywood, Silver Lake, Santa Monica, Griffith Observatory, and downtown. We did a surprising amount in one and a half days, and ate incredibly well thanks to our food research the night before we left.

We took an Amtrak train from LA to San Diego, where we stayed with my sister and her husband in Pacific Beach.  We only had one full day in the city, and we ended up deciding to go to Tijuana for that afternoon. We parked the car on the San Diego side and walked across the border, and I was surprised at how easy it was to get across. There was no one checking passports; we simply walked through a gate and were suddenly in Mexico. Our lunch spot was a hundred times fancier than I imagined a Tijuana restaurant could be, and we even ate ceviche and raw oysters. The line-up to get back to the USA was the opposite of the other border crossing. This time, we had to wait 2.5 hours in line. At least there were churros being sold along the way.