The view from the glass elevator in our hotel on the way down from the 14th floor. The USS Midway (CV-41) Museum is on the San Diego bayside and the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is tied up across the harbor at the Naval Air Station on Coronado Island.
We walked a half mile or so from the hotel to get breakfast at a local downtown joint. We ended up at Breakfast at Stephanie’s because Harbor Breakfast, which we came to first, wasn’t opening for another 11 minutes. Because we were in the Little Italy section of town, we of course got breakfast burritos. They were eight bucks and with it being the big city we figured for that price they would be small. Wrong! They were huge. We both finished them, but swore we didn’t need to eat the rest of the day.
After breakfast we strolled around the waterfront to the north and made it all the way to the Coast Guard Station which put us practically at the airport before turning around. By the time we got back to the hotel we had been over two miles, but the weather was perfect for it, upper 60s and partly cloudy.
Later, not wanting to spend the $24 each for a two hour narrated tour of the harbor, we opted for $9 each round trip for the ferry to Coronado Island. On the island We walked about a mile loop near the ferry landing and found ourselves outside a nice little Japanese Steakhouse place called Shima. We said we weren’t going to eat again, but who could pass up a a small bowl of soup and an a Chicken Yakatori skewer. We usually have Miso Soup, but when Donna noticed the Spicy Seafood Soup she couldn’t pass that up. The food was great and just the right amount we needed.
While we waited on the ferry for our return trip we got to watch a couple Navy ships sail by. First was the USS America (LHA-6) an America-class amphibious assault ship.
Then a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, the USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) passed by about 5 minutes later.
Yesterday we walked around the inside and on top of the USS Midway, but on the return ferry ride today we floated right by the front of the bottom side of the carrier.
