Day #11 - San Diego

Today was not what we all expected... San Diego is a wonderful place to visit

The morning started with an early rise and a lovely breakfast here at our new hotel near LAX. Then we all jumped on a bus and headed south towards San Diego.

On the trip south we traveled along the Motorway which takes you down through some of the famous surfing beach like Laguna Beach district and Orange County, heading south down to San Clemente, and then all the way into La Jolla.

La Jolla is a beautiful spot. Panoramic views of the entire Pacific coastline north up to LA. While there we walked around the Headland Parklands and saw large seals frolicking in the water near where swimmers were. They seemed not at all worried about the humans and seemed to enjoy swimming between all the snorkelers. 

This was also where we were to meet our only guest in San Diego, young old boy of TSS, Liam Clifton. Liam spoke really well to our guys talking about their journey since leaving to TSS in 2014. It was great to hear how he had progressed in his new careers, with Liam taking up an exciting option to move to the US and pursue modelling/acting career. He also now works for The Voice here in the US, and gets to mix with may of the stars and producers in LA. He spoke for nearly an hour with many questions from the boys asking about a whole range of topics including Liam's social media presence and his goals for the future.

Once leaving them, we jump back on the bus and headed to downtown San Diego where we visited a number of the local attraction of this beautiful city. First stop was the harbourside area where the aircraft carrier 'Midway' is docked. Decommissioned, it is an enormous ship, and certainly one the boys would have loved to see around in the future visits. Nearby there is a lovely small lunch area for the boys to eat overlooking the Harbour and all that sites.

Our final destination before heading back to LA was to visit Old Town San Diego. This is a reconstructed village, giving all visitors a look at what San Diego's was like pre-1800s,  and when the Spanish moved up into California to colonize the area. Number of the boys bought some authentic Mexican items to bring home including jewelry and clothing.

It was a worthwhile day with many sites to be seen in what is probably now my favourite city that we have seen so far this trip. We returned back to LA only to be greeted by the LA traffic. 8 lanes of cars all travelling at 20kms p/hr.

Next stop was Mr Wilkins favourite and also Mrs Dicksons.... a Premium Outlet centre. The boys went mad getting bargins from the likes of Polo, Tommy H, Nike, Asics, etc etc. With one day to go seeing the sights of LA, the boys how very excited.