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. 

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.