San Diego

Thursday | 10 February 2000 | San Diego, California: Since we did not have very far to travel today, we took it slow this morning and didn’t leave Newport Beach until around 11 a.m. We drove south down Highway 101 (Pacific Coast Highway). It was raining! It was chilly! It was foggy! Did someone forget to tell the weather girl I was here on vacation and wanted sun??? As we neared Oceanside – the Marines and Navy were invading! A huge aircraft carrier was off-shore, beach landing craft were hitting the shore and Hercules helicopters were flying overhead. We stopped to watch the activity for a while; it was interesting, but sorry to say there were too far away for my digital camera to get a good shot. Anyway, we are now at Campland by the Bay RV Resort. It looks better on their website than it does in “real-life” but we will not spend much time here, except for sleeping. We were worried about the weather as we want to attend the Buick Challenge in La Jolla tomorrow. It is cloudy and really windy and NOT WARM AT ALL.

The invading navy behind me near Oceanside, California

Friday – 11 February 2000: Today we went to the Buick Challenge. “Went” is maybe the wrong word, as we spent over 2 hours sitting in traffic just to get into the parking lot, and then another hour to get OUT of the parking lot… so we spent 3 hours at the tournament and 3 hours in the parking lot. Ok, so it was a very poorly organized tournament, but the field was wonderful and the weather cooperated (sunny) all day. The parking lot overlooks the Pacific Ocean, on some of the prettiest real estate in California. Here is a photo of our view today:

Tournament parking at Torrey Pines

When we entered the Torrey Pines Golf Club, Group 50 was teeing off in front of us. This group included Tiger Woods, Freddie Couples and Billy Mayfair. Because of Tiger’s popularity, it was difficult to catch sight of him through the crowds. Any glimpse I did see looked pretty good to me. We stayed on the South Course and watched Mark O’Meara, Steve Pate, Steve Jones, Chip Beck, Billy Andrade, Steve Elkington and Brad Faxon. Torrey Pines Golf Club is very pretty – the views to the ocean are spectacular. Not a lot of golf courses have military fighter jets flying overhead all day!