Day 2 continued:
Finally to San Diego where we got our first glimpse of the Wonder!!! Can you see her? In the bottom left corner.
A little closer
I was already having separation anxiety
Why are those trees in the way!?
Ahhhh, much better
I dropped mom off at the port with the bags at 11:20. I was a little anxious about separating but we didn’t want to drag the bags in a taxi or bus. My next order of business was to get some gas in the car. I had hoped to do that before dropping mom off, but we didn’t pass a gas station. I found one on the road to the car return, whew! Gas was an outrageous $2.75 but I wasn’t going hunting. Thank goodness I didn’t because the next station was $3.39… To the rental car return place at 11:35, mom texted at 11:37 that they finally took the bags from her. It was not very organized at the port. They had her stand in a certain section but the porters kept taking bags from people closer in line and didn’t come down to her area.
At 11:46 they had taken the car from me, printed my receipt, and I was free. When researching the port I had found that they have free buses to the port, and of course you could get a taxi. What I never found out was that the rental car return was not directly at the airport, you had to take a bus to the actual airport, and from there you could get a bus or taxi to the port. So, I could either take a bus to the main terminal, and then get a bus or taxi to the port, or attempt to walk. Mapquest said it was a 35 minute walk. I debated for a few minutes, looked for taxies again hoping I was wrong, and then just decided to walk. It was a bright sunny day, absolutely perfect weather, and ended up being quite an enjoyable walk to the port.
I thought these palms were pretty
Soon I was at the water’s edge and seeing my beautiful ship again
It was really pretty on the water
Mom sent me this picture on the way
Touristy things to do at the port. I think it would be really neat to go in a submarine.
Mom asked for pictures of the Star of India when we passed it in the car, so I tried to get a bunch.
Isn’t she beautiful!!!
People were walking by looking and I was all too happy to have a pass to get me through security and find mom.