Day 12: San Diego

After our short stay in Tucson, we made our final push for the West Coast and San Diego. Unlike most of our travel days where we put in 8 to 10 hours on the road, getting to San Diego took less than 6, which was nice. We passed through several border patrol checkpoints with little hassle and got into town in time to go down to Little Italy in SD and dine at an old family friends restaurant. Our friends the Zizzos, who used to live in our neighborhood, have an Italian Restaurant called Vincenzo and my childhood friend, Anthony is the head chef. And the food is AMAZING!!! Honestly some of the best my dad or I have ever eaten. Anthony has gone to Sicily on a couple of occassions to study under some of the best chefs over there and my clam linguine and dad's Alaska Salmon were both delicious. Dad and I got the spend some time with Anthony and his mom, JoJo which was great since I had not seen them since high school when they were up for a family reunion.

We stayed in nice hotel, The Hacienda, in old town, SD and toured some of the historic missions and shops that line the street. After which we made our way north to Los Angeles since both of us had meetings with Fuller Theological Seminary, and were staying in their guest housing. Pops had a recuiting meeting with them and since we were there I figured/dad encouraged, it wouldn't hurt to do a academic interview and see what they are all about.

Los Angeles, oh city of a ridiculous amount of people, cars and smog, here we, reluctantly, come (an unenthusiastic "yeah" follows).