road trip 2009: day 6
this is the joy of driving through the desert at night… a few car washes later, this mostly is still caked on… woke up probably too early on saturday to head out for san diego. in the full sunlight i was able to see that blythe CA and surrounding areas were probably more bland than the drive through arizona..
this was about the only interesting scenery along the way. miles of sand dunes, with tons of dirt bikes and four wheelers. kind of fun to watch. the air got smellier from the cattle “farms” and the ratio of english to spanish radio stations quickly slanted towards the latter as we drove south.
eating at a hole in the wall mexican restaurant called camancho’s place in el centro.
it was recommended by yelp. we had lunch here, which actually wasn’t too bad. didn’t think it was the most amazing mexican food i’d ever had, but what do i know, i’m just a gringo. the drive to san diego was hot and longer than i expect. very mountainous. border patrol waived us through pretty quickly, though i am not sure why i had to be stopped for interstate travel… stupid at&t decided to text message me when we were at the closest place to the border. they said i was entering the international service rate area, and of course they charged me the international text message fee for it. didn’t feel like disputing the $1 charge. i started getting pretty tired again as we were finally getting over the mountains and heading down into the coast. i decided we better take a rest at the motel before we tried to do anything else.
wandering down along pacific beach in san diego. sadly it’s overcast and almost a bit chilly.
we went out to walk along pacific beach. not a ton of people since it was overcast, but it was a nice walk.
some lady is walking in on the boardwalk in a wet suit and heels. it’s entertaining to see all the reactions of people as they pass.
i got some tacos along the boardwalk (cuz i figured that was the thing to do) and then both adam and i realized just how worn out from the trip we were. we decided to just relax and go see the wolverine movie (which was absolutely horrible…. too bad i didn’t write this earlier to warn everyone..). after the movie we just crashed in the hotel room.