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Hopping On And Off In San Diego

12/8/2022

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​HOPPING ON AND OFF IN SAN DIEGO

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...Continued from previous post:
     
The following day, Saturday, we drove 38 miles south from Oceanside to San Diego, where Romaine procured us tickets for the San Diego Hop-On Hop-Off. 
          The Hop-On Hop-Off is a tour trolley that makes a loop of the city, stopping along the way at the sites of interest, where one can hop off the trolley, visit as one wishes, then hop back on a subsequent trolley to the next desired site, where one repeats the process. In this way one can hit all the city sights worth seeing without trying to figure out 1. what they are and 2. how to get there.
        There's also a parking lot near the pick-up point where one can leave one's car for the day.
       The Hop-On Hop-Off left from a historically Mexican area of San Diego called Old Town.
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       Our trolley was a cute, old-timey conveyance, 
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...festively strung on the inside with Christmas lights.
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   Our first driver of the day was friendly and accommodating, as were our subsequent drivers.
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      Our first Hop Off stop of choice was the San Diego Harbor,
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...where we saw sea vessels hundreds of years old,
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...and others not as old.
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       We saw vessels great,
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...and small.
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     After a while we walked inland towards downtown San Diego,
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...where we strolled for a bit.
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      Then we walked back to the harbor.
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...and along the commercial district.
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        We walked for quite a while, and when we found ourselves near a Hop-On Hop-off stop, we decided to hop on and ride to our next destination, Coronado, a scenic island town across the bay from San Diego.
         By the time we arrived at the Coronado stop if was well past lunch time and we were all quite hungry. Fortunately, the trolley let us off in front of a nice-looking restaurant called Mr. P's,        
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...that in fact reminded me of Tom's and my favorite eatery in our home town, the Gahanna Grill:
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      So we decided to try Mr. P's.
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     We found the food to be very good, and in fact rather along the lines of fare served at the Gahanna Grill,
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...but at San Diego prices. ; )
       After lunch we walked around the town,
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...towards the main attraction of the island, the Hotel del Coronado.
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     The Hotel del Coronado, or Hotel Del, as it's known locally, was built in 1888 as a luxury beachfront resort, and remains so to this day, though the public is free to visit the grounds and patronize the shops, restaurants, beachfront, and other attractions, such as the outdoor ice-skating rink.
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​      And so we joined the bands of tourists visiting The Hotel Del.   
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​      After we finished our tour of the hotel, we headed back to downtown Coronado,
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​…where we waited at the trolley stop to hop back on.
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     Because the day was now growing late, we decided to stay on board the Hop-On Hop-Off until it returned us to our starting point, where we hopped off and then headed back home.
      ​The following morning, Sunday morning, we went out to a cute little Oceanside place called Swami’s, 
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…where the ambience was friendly and the breakfast lovely. 
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     Then Tom and I said our good-byes to Stanley and Romaine, and we were back on the road north to Los Angeles.
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