San Diego: getting there....

Well after a full days worth of flying, and killing time in aiports we've successfully completed the first and in all likelihood the easiest leg of our journey.  As the previous post indicates,  the Washington-Dulles airport has some pretty pricey beers.  Good thing there aren't anymore airports in our forseeable future.

Our plane landed an hour early last night, so after collecting up our baggage and grabbing a post card or two we decided we may as well just get down to it and walk from the airport to our hostel.  A cool 3.5 miles, easy as pie.  We hiked around San Diego bay taking in the tall ships, submarines, and old steamers docked there.  We kept a vigilant eye out for marine wildlife, but save for a small crab skittering across the rocks we didn't see too much.  What the bay lacked in sea lions, and cool marine life it definitely made up for in homeless men sleeping along the shore. 

Lucky D's hostel is a pretty sweet spot, and the atmosphere is great.  It's quite sizeable and theres seems as though there are at least a couple dozen other residents right now.  Lucky us, we just happened to arrive on free dinner night, and with complimentary breakfast this morning we haven't had to shell out too much cash as of yet. 

Today we plan to tie up all loose ends, grabbing up the last couple bits of gear and supplies that we'll need before we hit the trail head tomorrow.  The weather's pretty gloomy right now and looks as though it may be a rainy one.  Unofrtunatelty the San Diego Zoo may have to be put aside for another, less rainy day.

The hostel's computers aren't seeming exactly compatible with my GoPro camera at this point, so pictures and videos are coming whenever we find ourselves a less ancient computer on which to upload them. Stay tuned, and since this is San Diego also "stay classy."

--Jesse