19th day: Driving to California

We left early morning for our next loop. This time to stay in style we rented a Mustang cabriolet and left direction south, to California. It was a long drive through the desert. The idea was to use the advantages of the Mustang and speed through the empty roads, but unluckily there was a police car in front of us for almost 100miles.

We turned to east at the village cold Mexicali and drove all the way along the Mexican border to San Diego. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the U.S. Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center. The population was 1,322,553 based on latest population estimates.

We spent the day visiting the Cabrillo NM on a peninsula, just south of San Diego and later on we went to Coronado beach and its famous hotel, which you can recall from several movies. The most famous one is maybe the "Some like it hot" from 1959 with Tony Curtis and Marylin Monroe.  When it opened in 1888, it was the largest resort hotel in the world.

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