How to Spend a Few Days in San Diego

Hi Wanderers!

Hope you are all doing well. I have had some visitors in the past month, such as my sister and my best friend, and thought I would share what we did with the state of how things are right now. In advance of each activity, we thought about what we needed to do or mentally prepare. Also we had other plans if it was too crowded. Luckily, not a lot of our plans had to be changed to something else, which was great! Also, more places are taking precautions themselves and that helped us a lot as well.

Solana Beach

First thing on the list was going to the beach. Leading up to my sister coming, who came first, we were a little nervous about crowds. Luckily during the week it is pretty calm and during the weekend it only looks crowded from when you first get on the beach, but once you walk down it spreads out. Also, we went in the morning and spend the afternoon and have lunch on the beach. This way we picked our spot further from the main area.

Potato Chip Rock

As we are close to the beach in our new home we are also close to some great hiking trails. One of the most famous ones is called potato chip rock. My husband has hiked it before but once you get to the top you can take a picture of the actual “potato chip rock”, which is just a rock that is thin and looks like a chip! The hike is rated difficult and it was mostly up hill but we started early so it was cooler, took lots of water and stopped for many breaks. Finally getting to the top and going back down felt like a great accomplishment and work out.

Balboa Park

If you don’t know Balboa park, it is absolutely massive! Not only is it home to two museums, but the San Diego Zoo resides in it too. My sister and I planned to go to the Japanese Garden within the park, but unfortunately it was closed that day. Instead, we walked around for a while and then sat at the tables outside of the art museum and did some serious people watching while we had a little snack. The whole area felt very Spanish and we loved just taking a stroll through it.

Pacific Coast Highway

The road, or highway as it says, that goes up and down the coast is a great way to pass time. It is a lovely and beautiful drive. We went up to Newport beach to go to a surf shop my friend wanted to go to and then on our way back down to San Diego we took the 101 aka pacific coast highway. As my husband and I have not ventured out much since we first got here to California it was fun to see all the beaches I have heard so much about.We saw Newport obviously, then Huntington, Laguna and stopped at Carlsbad to chill on the beach for a bit.

Bernardo Winery

Another activity we did was going to a winery that was very close by. It was all outside and we went towards the end of the day so there weren’t very many people there and we sat far from others. They had just started doing flights because of corona and we got 3 for $20. They also have a kitchen as part of it and the food was amazing. We were just going to do deserts, but someone recommended the bruschetta so we got a cannoli and a brownie along with that. It was all so good and we had a lovely evening just chatting as the sun was going down.

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