Last night in San Diego

 

On our last day in San Diego, Ade wanted to lay around the pool, while I checked out a few  more sights around town and the beaches.

A wonderful thing about San Diegois the lack of parking meters in beach area locations. All the beach area parking lots were free parking, along with many of the commercial streets nearby the beaches. It makes it very friendly for families, beach lovers, and “lookie-loos”.

At night Ade was content to hold down the fort, but I wanted to take the scooter out and make one last visit to Old Town, Little Italy, and the Gaslamp quarter.

 

San Diego is a typical large American City, with freeways chopping up parts of the town, and making it easier for cars to get around, but not Scooters than only go 45 miles per hour!

Because of the speed of traffic on the highways, I chose to find a back route, where ever I went. On a map this looks reasonably simple. However, the map does not tell you that a number of the main back roads are "one way".

I had no problem making my way from Campland to my 3 destinations, however the return route was another story. Because of the freeways and hills downtown, there was not a parallel return road near the one way street that took me down-town.

Of course I got a little lost on my way home. I had my trusty GPS with me but of course it wanted me to take freeways home, and it did not indicate which streets were “one way”.

 

Since it was dark and near 10:00 pm, it was a little challenging. I stopped at a gas station for directions from one of the customers. He indicated that I was considerably off target on my return route. However, once again, fortune turned in my direction and he turned out to be a Guardian Angel for me.

He insisted that I follow him and he would take me back to our campsite on Mission Bay. What a relief! With glaring lights and darkness all around me, I just kept a bead on his tails lights. After many twists and turns, we finally got headed in what I thought was the right direction. Sure enough, within 10 minutes, I started to recognize where I was. At a stop light I was able to pull up along side of him and thank him so much! Sometimes it is fun and interesting finding your way out of "iffy" situations.

Once back at our "base camp", we decided to go for our nightly open air hot tub. We changed and got our towels and headed to the pool area, only to find that they were just locking it up for the night. Oh well, time for a quick drink, a game of crib and call it a day.