More Trivia

Buses carrying passengers have to stop at all railway crossings even if there are boom gates and flashing lights.   If they are empty they can travel across without stopping.

San Diego town was originally over 5 miles from where the city is now.   Back in the early 1800's a Mister Horton came down from San Francisco (with lots of money) and after looking around advised the town officials they needed to re site their town.   Of course this didn't go down too well with them.
He decided to bid on a parcel of land with the idea of making his own town and he bought over 800 acres for less than 300 dollars.  After all the land was just desert and cactus,  there were no trees.  He designed small blocks when laying out the streets because after all shops wanted to be on the corner didn't they (and he could sell those corner blocks for more) so the blocks in San Diego are quite small.

San Diego is home to the American Naval fleet and the USS Midway is moored here as a naval museum.  We are doing a harbour cruise today (once the fog clears).  We noticed this heavy layer in Los Angeles also and have found out that it is sea fog that is there every morning and slowly burns off.  Makes the day look overcast to start with.

Not as hot now we are back on the coast.  In Las Vegas it was 109, 107 and then 105 but back on the coast is down into the 70's so once the sun goes down the breeze becomes quite cool quickly.