SAN DIEGO

The Charity: STAND Point Loma Student Organization

The Girl: Sarah Kurisu

Words from Sarah:

“STAND is the student-led division of the Genocide Intervention Network and is one of the non-profits the Social Justice League here on PLNU's (Point Loma Nazarene University) campus has decided to dedicate time and money to this school year.

It began out of the fight to end genocide in Darfur and seeks to unite students in the fight against genocide.”

This is no laughing matter, genocide is serious.

Unless, of course, you recently saw Inglorious Basterds, which made it pretty hilarious.

So, laugh or no laugh, give her some money, help save some Dafurians, and Plnew and I thank you. (Note: I do not have the authority to speak on the behalf of Plnew.)

Money raised so far: ???

Top Five things to do in A whales vagina (San Diego)

(I did a version of all these things):

Five: Old Town

Four: Seaport Village

Three: Take a walk along the harbor/take a trolley ride around the city

Two: San Diego Zoo

One: Balboa Park

Things I passed on: Cabrillo National Monument/Point Loma, Coronado Island, Mission Beach, Harbor cruises, and Sea World

Bad places to stay: The San Diego Airport, Terminal 1, 24 hour Starbucks (but the airport does have free wireless… so that is a plus).

San Diego’s Ratings. On a scale from 1 to Boston: 6.7 (and that might be inflated)

San Diego has water, weather, tourist friendly transit, walkability, and stuff to do.

San Diego doesn’t have substance, history, sports teams worth rooting for, and nothing was open for breakfast (It’s my blog, why don’t things open for breakfast?)

YouTube:

The story (with really bad editing and cheesy cuts):

Greg arrives in San Diego, and well, now I understand what Will Farrell was talking about…

Though, I must admit San Diego is really not getting a fair review. For one, I only get about 16 hours in the city, more than half of which will be spent in the airport. However, even if I had a week here, I have to say it is starting off with a pretty negative record- I am biased against SoCal. They lose points right off the bat for being associated with the catastrophes that are the San Diego Chargers, Norv Turner, and yes… Philip Rivers (I know his stats, and I don’t care… he is a gosh darn catastrophe.)

Then, nothing was open for breakfast.

But, that is the bad.

Lets talk about the good of San Diego.

FREE WIRELESS IN THE AIRPORT. I love airports with free wireless, just leaves me with a warm fuzzy feeling. Also, I bought a public transit ticket for 5 dollars for a day pass, and it works for bus, light rail, and trolley. Good deal.

Being the proverbial poop show that I am, I ended up staying in the airport for the night even though I know plenty of people. I banked on free wireless and got cracking on the blog (which worked out well).

Got a few winks and arrived at a deserted “old town San Diego” (which to be honest was kind of nice- I had an entire tourist trap empty and to myself to explore… didn’t get caught doing any of it)

Found my way over to seaport village, which was also deserted.

I guess I’m just too early of a bird for the worm of San Diego. Eventually, I had a delicious view of the harbor and bridge to Coronado, with my food. The walk along the way was very nice, and I saw some cool stuff at the USS San Diego. Then off to Balboa park, and the San Diego Zoo. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of animals in my travels, but the SD zoo still impressed me with showing me some I don’t think I’ve seen (Californian Condor, some weird thing with legs like zebra-back like a horse, etc.)

I feel like Cabrillo National Monument would have been nice had I made it, but Coronado Island, and Mission Beach, from what I can tell are just “more beautiful beaches”- which you can get in Florida, Hawaii, Cape Cod, anywhere else in California, etc.

Operation See San Diego, check.

P.S. Donate to the cause.