9 stops- 2 hours




Marriott Marquis



1867-San Diego was referred to as Rabbitville. Alonso Horton paid $240 for 640 acres down by the waterfront that nobody wanted cuz all there was there was cacti and rabbits… 10,000 rabbits for each person
Gas lamp quarter … used to be bad part of San Diego




San Diego-Coronado Bridge is 248 ft high-2.4 miles long


Naval base on the island. 27,000 population. There is no fresh water on Coronado Island. They have to pipe it in from San Diego.
3.3 m dollar for the average home.


1888 Hotel Del first all wooden, all electric hotel in North America
All shops storefront have to be different… quite cool.
All navy seals have done training on this base. It was first for a whole lot of things aeronautical.



$26,000,000 for this over 100 years old house… barged to Coronado Island from San Diego.
Balboa Park – Kate Sessions schoolteacher turned master gardener known as the mother of Balboa Park. She asked the city for 30 acres to build greenhouses on the promise that she would plant 100 trees per year.




2,000,00 people showed up in San Diego for celebration for opening of Panama Canal at the 1915 Exposition. They were only expecting 600,000. Most never left.
Average year round temperature is 78 degrees








3 million pop. Average price of houses is almost 1 million dollar making it most expensive in America.




Lindbergh Field is the name for the international airport. It only has 1 runway. It also has curfew…11:30pm to 6:30 am no planes can take off out of respect to the residences nearby.


10 year waiting list to anchor sailboat in the harbour.
Wonderful reading all that history! Thank you!
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Great photos!
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really enjoying the photos and information. You’re really getting good at all this — the postings and photo inserts. 🙂🙂 xo
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incredible photos Gail, not to sure how to change my email address with you so I can keep seeing your posts. My new email address is Mjoycebartley@gmail.com. Enjoy your time away
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Hi Gail,
Love all your photos and details of your trip.
Aunt Jude arrives today and will stay with Aunt Flo for a week.
Hopefully she will stay at my mums for a night too so that I can get to see her.
Take care and talk when you get back.
I am planning a trip next summer of 2025 to visit cousin Mark and you for sure!
Love, Lynda
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