Hello, San Diego

1/11/2018

...Continued from yesterday:
On Tuesday, January 2, it was good-bye to the Los Angeles palm trees and hello to the San Diego palm trees,

...which are also lovely.

I met up with my sister Romaine who flew down from Portland, our plan being to spend a few days seeing the San Diego sights.

We stayed in Imperial Beach, a beautiful beach city on the Mexican border.

From the beach extended a pier,

...which offered panoramic views of sea and shore.

We stayed at Pier South, a hotel along the beach.

Our room was on the fourth floor and had a bedroom, which Romaine slept in,

...and a living room with a very comfy pull-out-bed couch which I slept on.

The view of the pier from our balcony at sunset.

...and of the beach houses at night.

The view from outside our door.

As we arrived at Imperial Beach several hours before check-in time, we decided to first seek out some lunch. By fortunate happenstance we found down the block from our hotel a great little restaurant called the Coronado Brewing Company that served the best food.

We started with an appetizer of artichoke dip which was most delicious, though we'd never before seen such green artichoke dip.

Romaine had the Grilled Fish Tacos with slaw,

...while I had the Seared Ahi Tacos with fries. Everything was soooo goood!

After lunch we walked around the beach for a while, then drove around San Diego for a while.

We returned to Imperial Beach and checked into Pier South in time for the hotel’s free-hor's d'ouevres-and-wine happy hour on the 5th floor terrace overlooking the ocean.