Los Angeles to San Diego

Our hotel in Los Angeles was downtown, in a rather scarey neighbourhood - but convenient to Union Station. When we walked out in search of Eggslut for breakfast there seemed to be a police car every 100 yards which is good. Eggslut had huge queues for their specialty which is a coddled egg sitting on top of mashed potatoes in a glass jar. 

                   Delicious but small. 

We saw the film Sully and did a little gentle shopping, a needed rest day. 

Thursday morning we were in Union Station waiting for the train to San Diego which was another pleasant train experience, on time at both ends, and there waiting for us were Carol and Jim Burger, who are in San Diego for a friend's wedding. David and Jim were at U of Florida together in the 1970s and love to get together to talk trees. 

We are sharing a beach front apartment at Ocean Beach which has huge waves rolling in and a few surfers battling them.  

Jim drove us down Point Loma to the Cabrillo Monument where there is a marvellous view of San Diego. The road runs through naval installations and that's a big surprise: San Diego has the largest military base in the world, 130,000 service personnel plus 250,000 family and that doesn't include support personnel. The cemetery is huge, neat white tombstones stretching as far as the eye can see. 

Cabrillo was the first white man to set foot on the west coast of America so he has been given a National Park.