Finally, the end of our trip to San Diego. Click the links below to see additional recaps from our trip.
- Day 1- USS Midway and Coronado Brewery
- Day 2- Octotillo Wells and Alpine Brewery
- Day 3- Bite San Diego and Sunset Cliffs
- Day 4- Temecula, Stone Brewery, Mission Brewery, and Half Door Brewing Co.
Day five started before the sun came up. Jon and Betsy had a 8AM flight, so we all got up early to drop them off at the airport. Our flight wasn’t until 8PM, so we had the whole day to spend in San Diego. We started by going back to the condo and packing. The owner was nice enough to let us stay until after 4PM, so we didn’t have to worry about carrying our computers and luggage around all day.
We started our day by heading to Ocean Beach for breakfast and more Machaca (for Huck) at Shades Oceanfront Bistro. I ordered a veggie omelet with added bacon :) The food was good, and we had a great view of the ocean.
Once we were stuffed, we headed south to Point Loma Lighthouse. The views from Point Loma was worth the trip on its own. We walked around the small museum, checked out the historical buildings, and went into the lighthouse. The very top was unfortunately closed, though.
Once we finished at Point Loma, we headed back north to La Jolla. While researching San Diego, I found a picture of a beach covered in sea lions and added it to the list of places to go.
La Jolla Coves did have a bunch of cute, stinky, sea lions. And stinky is a major understatement.
As we were parking, 2 miles away, we walked past Karl Strauss Brewing Company, so on the way back to the car, we stopped in for a flight.
From there we headed to Green Flash Brewing Company. It was HUGE! The beer was good and the staff was really nice. I really liked that they offered 2 oz tasters. They made trying a few different beers easy instead of just ordering one pint {Just in case you thought we were pounding beers and driving all over San Diego. I’m very anti-drinking and driving!} This was the point where Huck was ready to move. Throughout our last day, we asked if we could get a later flight (Little did we know!), stay a couple more days, when could we come back, or if we could move. He doesn’t share the same love for travel as I do, even though he’s warming up to it more and more, but he fell in love with San Diego. What’s not to love, perfect temps, great food, and more breweries than any other city in the USA?? I’m ready to move too.
He was sad when it was time to head back to the condo to grab our stuff.
Sulking by the window.
Our flight home was on Frontier {never again!!}, and they charge you to carry on your bags. Since checking a bag was cheaper, we decided to stock up on beer to take back home. Our tour guide from the Bite San Diego food tour, suggested we head to Bottlecraft in North Park if we wanted hard to find beers. Once we made it to North Park, we started with a late lunch at a restaurant that I can not remember the name or find it on Google Maps :( We ordered some sushi, complained about having to leave, and talked more about moving. The sushi was really good. I hate I can’t find the name. It’s down the street from Bottlecraft if you’re in the area.
After sushi, we walked down to Mike Hess Brewing, and shared our last flight of the trip. Mike Hess had a great setup. When you walked in, the walkway is located above the equipment, so you can see down into the brewhouse.
We stocked up on beer at Bottlecraft, dropped off our rental car, and headed to the airport.
Our flight included a layover in Denver and was scheduled to arrive in West Palm at 5:25AM. When we checked in at the San Diego airport, we were told that our connecting flight wasn’t until 8:30AM. WAIT WHAT???!?!?! Apparently, our flight was cancelled, and we should have known this, even though our itinerary was still listed as the original times 3 days before our flight. Apparently, Frontier updated their system and I wasn’t able to check in online before our flight, so I couldn’t see if it changed before arriving at the airport. The people working for Frontier blamed us for not checking our itinerary and there was nothing we could do. I spent an hour at the customer service desk in Denver, which was TOTAL waste of time. Well, I actually take that back. They were nice enough not to recharge us to check our bags in Denver. We planned to get a hotel, but at this point it was 1:30AM, hotels were $100+, and we had to be back in 4 hours. Frontier recommended we arrive early because they were having “longer than normal” delays due to their new system {And it was our fault!!}
So, we found a seat and laughed. That’s what happens when you have too much fun I guess. We tried to sleep but I quickly realized it wasn’t going to happen. I played on Pinterest while Huck dozed on and off until around 4AM.
At that point, we moved to some tables and started working. We headed to the check in desk at 6AM. Luckily, the super nice {HAHA} customer service people already printed our tickets, so all we had to do was check our bags. That process still took 40+ minutes. If we didn’t have our ticket, we would have missed our flight for sure. They had two people at check-in and about 200 people in line. It took us another hour to get through TSA. We had just enough time to order one Denver beer at the bar {the airport is the only place where it is socially acceptable to order a beer at 8AM), drink it really fast, and hoping on the plane.
We landed in West Palm at 2:30PM and arrived home around 3:30. Huck actually went to the gym for his weekly racquetball game, I unpacked, and crashed around 5 after being awake for over 32 hours. I’m too old to stay up that long.
It wasn’t the best end to a great trip, but it could always have been worse. We made it home in one piece, we have a very interesting story, and now I can say I’ve been to Denver since we left the airport and walked around outside. I refuse to fly Frontier or Spirit ever again, though!
I hope you enjoyed reading my recaps. They’re my favorite post to write and go back and re-read later. Now, I hope to share more food recipes.
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