After leaving Anza-Borrego we wanted to “get away from the crowds” for a few days.  We had allocated some time for “down time” before going to San Diego to see the sights.   So we went to the South Carrizo Creek camping area – a “public lands” site.  The GPS location is:  32.848520, -116.189462   and the first picture below is a Google Satellite view of the location.  We were truly and wonderfully alone in the desert!  We did see the Border Patrol come through one day, and a couple dirt bike riders came through another day, but we were essentially alone together in the desert for three wonderful days!!!  (I have marked our trailer with a red arrow in some of the pictures below.)

San Diego

Our first stop in San Diego was a visit to the USS Midway — a retired Navy Aircraft Carrier that served from a week after the end of World War II until 1992.  Until 1955 it was the largest ship in the world and typically carried a complement of about 4800 seamen and airmen.  She played a crucial role throughout the Vietnam War and later in Desert Storm.

The view from her flight deck was amazing–

Across the bay was the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Carl-Vinson (the ship from which Osama bin Laden was buried in North Arabian sea.)

Unfortunately, Judith just couldn’t follow Navy protocols as she attempted to join at the Admiral’s conference table and ended up in the “brig” —

 

We went to the Silver Strand State Park on Coronado Island —

 

Kids were playing, and a nice couple from Kokomo, Indiana, took our picture:

Of course, no visit to San Diego is complete without a visit to the San Diego Zoo —

 

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