April 9, 2006 - San Diego, California

AUTHOR'S NOTE 2018: The annual American Academy of Neurology meeting brought us to San Diego for the first time.  Billy and Amy were neurology residents with me at the University of Virginia Medical Center in the late 1990's and Academy meetings are always a fun time to catch up with our friends from our time at Mr. Jefferson's hospital.

We leave San Diego today.  Unfortunately, our flight is late and that, plus the time change, is going to make tomorrow morning rough...

We had a wonderful day yesterday.  The weather was perfect, best we've had all week.  We rented a car with Billy and Amy and drove to Coronado and Point Loma.  Coronado is technically a peninsula, connected to the mainland by the, "Silver Strand," but the best way to get there from the city is by the Coronado bridge.  Once there, it is a sleepy small town within sight (and easy drive or boat ride) of downtown San Diego.  It has a beautiful beach and on this beach is the Hotel del Coronado - a grand 1855 hotel that is enormous and ornate.  It served as the set for the Marilyn Monroe picture, Some Like it Hot.  We got some ice cream there, with real raspberries on top, which was delicious.

From Coronado, we drove to Point Loma.  There is a national park at the end of the point that is just beautiful.  The view of San Diego, Coronado, and Mexico from there is breath taking.  We took some great pictures there and watched both fighter planes returning to the Navy air base as well as cruise ships leaving port.  It was fun.

Then, we finished up at Sally's, a waterfront restaurant attached to the Marriott hotel, where we had quite good crab cakes and wine and watched the sun set before Billy and Amy had to leave to catch the Red Eye flight back to Washington, D.C.  It was a fun day.

Hotel Del Coronado

Point Loma