Trips for Coronado Island

We've heard about the Danish town in California for a while, but never bothered looking it up. When planning this trip we finally did. The name is Solvang, and what do you know it's one of the places Jack and Miles visited in the movie "sideways …

...We checked out of the Homewood Suites Wednesday morning and loaded up the car. We would be doing a 270-mile drive to begin the next leg of our vacation in Durango, Colorado. Our itinerary called for a stop in the town of Chimayo, New Mexico …

Arrived in San Diego in the morning. It was bizarre flying over a hill and down into the bay. We hitched a ride in the car rental shuttle bus and picked up our rental car. It was another Chevy Cobalt. We were happy with it in Boston so were …

Crashed at Paula's in anticipation for leaving on our trip together. I'm pretty psyched to take our first roadtrip together. It turns out we need to pickup her mom in St. Louis first, which wasn't anticipated but is only another hour for our …

The punchline: We had dinner at Chili's. The joke: What "Mexican" restaurant did you choose for your first San Diego cuisine experience? Let me explain. We started our Thursday with some typical pre-transcontinental errands--an oil change, …

Out of our whole group, mine was the only flight to arrive on time. I got in to the hotel, but couldn't check in, so I headed over to the Coronado Brewing Company for lunch. Had a hawaiian calzone - not too bad, but a bit too saucy. After lunch …

Loved the San Diego Airport...even their bathrooms were cool! We landed and called for our courtesy van from the rental car company....then waited and waited and waited! They did finally show up but then we had some trouble when we got there …

Day One: Zoo, we bought the upgraded tickets which included the sky trolley and the bus rides. If you don't have kids then there is no need to buy this ticket. We walked the entire zoo and then at the end took the sky trolley. The food in the …