San Diego

This week I attended a conference in San Diego.  Mostly I was at the conference, but I got to see some of the town as I walked to the conference or in the evening if I went out to dinner.

One thing about San Diego is how fit everyone was.  There were lots of people running at all times of the day.  The hardcore fitness people ran to the conventional center and ran up and down the steps.  I saw many of them run the steps and then do a series of sit-ups or crunches at the base.  Then they would hop up the stairs three steps at a time.  Hard-core!

The Gaslamp District is full of bars and restaurants.  And lots of people in the evening.  I enjoyed several good meals in the area.

The Petco Park stadium was close to where I was staying.  Opening night for the baseball season is a month away, but I got this close to the stadium.

 

While there is a lot more things to see in the area (USS Midway, San Diego Zoo, Balboa Park, the beaches), they will have to wait until later trips.

On the way home to Pensacola, Dirk Benedict sat across the aisle from me.  My seatmate recognized him since he used to race home from school to see episodes of A-team where Dirk played the character “Face Man Peck”.  Dirk also played “Starbuck” in Battlestar Galactica.  We asked him if he was Dirk, but he didn’t want to talk.  So we left him alone.  Apparently he was coming into Pensacola for Pensacon. 

I also saw Deep Roy on the plane.  He played the Oompah-Loompah in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser (the creature/fellow Starfleet officer that Scotty yells at “Get off there”) in the new Star Trek movies, and several other movies.  I think there were several other people coming as guests for the Con, but I didn’t realize they would be on the plane or I would have looked more closely.