Across the country in 66 days: Cloudy Beaches

6/21/2018

Today Kevin, Dante, and I slept in while Alex went in a run to Sunset Cliffs. Some days you just need to sleep in, ya know what I mean? We walked to the Kombucha and cold brew bar before grabbing açaí bowls. I’ve never had an açaí bowl, and I knew there was hype around them, but they really are the real deal. There so much more in the bowl than I expected. It has the fruit and smoothie section, but also nuts, granola, coconut, and other crunchy things. Highly recommend a good açaí bowl if you have access to them.

Pure amazingness

It was already like 11 or so by the time we were done, so we headed back and all showered before meeting Dee for lunch. Obviously going from one meal to the next, with little in between. We met Dee at a Mexican restaurant called Volcano Rabbit. The food was amazing - short rib and grilled octopus tacos, hard to go wrong. While the food was great, the feel to the place wasn’t my type. It was a bigger restaurant with lots of space for lots of people. Fortunately it was super empty for lunch, but I can see it being a rowdy, maybe bro-y spot on weekend nights.

At any rate, we went from lunch right to Coronado Island to catch some sun and waves. It was sunny and hot when we left downtown, and became cloudy and windy once we got to the beach. The homes around the beach were massive and fancy, which was cool to look at, but also mind boggling how expensive these places must be. We hung on the beach for awhile before realizing that it’s actually cold and windy, despite our best efforts of trying to make it nice out.

Fancy neighborhoods

Us trying to move clouds

More grey

We stopped home to rinse off before heading to dinner. Al and I met up with her Dad's best friend Dave Getch (spelling is based on the sound) and his family. They have a beautiful home about 30 minutes from our Airbnb and have super fun kids and cats. We shared lots of fun conversation about our trip, stories about Doug (Alexs Dad) when they were younger, and what the kids are up to this summer. Truly amazing hosts, providing an impeccable cheese and meat plate before serving steaks 🥩 and multiple veggie offerings. Thanks for the amazing hospitality!

After dinner we headed back to Pacific Beaxh to meet Kevin and Dante for a beer and some skeet ball (I think that’s the name?). Dante also sang karaoke “I’m feeling good” by Mike Buble again and killed it again. Unreal that guys voice. No one else wanted to sing so we headed back and prepped for tomorrow’s busy day. We have to eat, head to La Jolla to see seals, and leave SD by 12ish. It’s a Friday and people will be heading in that direction for the weekend. That’s it for today - see ya tomorrow!!

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