have the most unpleasant part of our trip we put behind us. We, the drive train passionate about reading, doing, eating and walking around, spent over 13 hours, 12 hours and 20 minutes in the air, squeezed on the plane. The only advantage we have saved so much money for the flight in Economy Class, we once again able to finance such a trip. With an Airbus 340-300 SWISS launched on Thursday 4 March, by 14 clock in Kloten - after a 45-minute delay: an indicator light showed an error in the oil pressure in one of the four engines. The service in the SWISS is almost back to the default before the grounding of Swissair! The long time we drove with Sudoku and movies. I enjoyed the movie 2012 disaster, and I felt at the destruction of our destination, and half the world in an airplane in complete safety. To
17 clock we landed in Los Angeles. Also on board was the way Roger Federer and his family. He also had to endure 13 hours in the air - but with a far greater comfort. Maybe I should play tennis! Rina at the airport picked us up and took us to her house, where we could stay for three days. With it, we visited including the Museum of Tolerance where they volunteer (without compensation, of course, as is customary for most retirees in the U.S.) offers guided tours. One evening we go
with Rina, her husband and two friendly couples to the movies. The film 3-D film from James Cameron AVATAR is technically fascinating, but of course content poor. After the presentation is the floor of the cinema littered with popcorn, cups and papers. Is it well with us too? We were never in this millennium in the cinema!
On Saturday evening we bring in Carson at Cruise America our RV (Recreational Vehicle), a newer model, only 6 feet long - which allows us to park in normal parking spaces - more economical, but like most rental RV fraught with qualitative deficiencies . The equipment is sparse, the shower head works only after coaxing. But we will cope well with this model.
On Sunday we finally drive the 120 miles south to San Diego, arriving for lunch with our daughter and her son Mela and Örjan Emil. The reunion after more than a year of separation is of course welcome. Emil us see at first because we still hold out to him from the car a little animal matter (an owl), which we had always shown at the weekly Skype. The young family lived for over a year in a small three-room house just two blocks from the sea. This is important for the athletic couple, as they surf on the waves of passionate, and has also Emil's fun in the water. Mela has received a research grant from the National Science Foundation and is working on her specialty computer games for young people.
We have a full week stay in San Diego and are happy with the family to be together, to go sightseeing and enjoy the beach. The sky is cloud-free as of Thursday and the thermometer climbs above 20 degrees Celsius, it blows in the afternoon but always a cool breeze. On the internet we read of the winter in Switzerland!
are on our sightseeing program including:
the Old Town. This visit we leave on one day alone to the young family something to calm down. We participate in a guided tour and learn all sorts of interesting things about the history of the city. Around 1820 the first houses were built of adobe (dried mud brick), because the timber was missing. By the middle of the 19th Century the town had about 400 residents, now about 1.2 million is a small school house, which only has one room available, again at the original location. The first teacher was Mary Chase Walker, who arrived from Boston and needed for this trip almost a year. We also see the prison, a small iron cage, which was in the summer to a real sauna, a spacious double storey hotel, which is now restored, is extensive Casa de Estudillo, which housed the family of a cattle baron, etc.
to beautiful views over the original city was the Fort Stockton. 500 Mormon soldiers were, with few women and children in July 1846 from the Salt Lake Valley are broken up and marched to within half a year to San Diego, where they support the Californos in the fight against Mexico. Against the opposition of the locals (the Kumeyaay) then they settled at the foot of the hill, with its extensive and affected the livestock resources of the natives. The barren, semi-arid soil did not allow agriculture. The grazing of cattle was not fenced and extended over vast areas. Only the skins of cattle and the meat derived from tallow (about 90 kg per head of livestock) were sold and brought by ship to the East Coast. From the East was imported wood in return, as in this semiarid region only willows and small shrubs Grow. Today no more tallow is sold. I imagine that you could win per obese AMI good 20 kg of tallow, if it in a beauty-farm, the fat is sucked out.
Take the family, we at Cabrillo NM: 28/09/1542 landed on the Portuguese Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo on behalf of the English king in the Bay of present-day San Diego. He was to conquer the country, find a route to the Spice Islands, the mythical Strait of Anian, and of course gold. His crew took 800 miles of coast. Cabrillo died on 3/1/1543 but an infection that he had been captured because of a bone fracture.
We visit the Visitor Center and the Lighthouse, the lighthouse keeper's family served as a residence. The children had the 8-km route to school in San Diego (now the Old Town) to travel in a rowing boat.
impressive is the small military museum that documents the struggles against the Japanese in the Pacific. Shocking is the sheer vast area of the military cemetery: But thousands of soldiers who have died in the attack of the Japanese.
the very lively we visit Balboa Park on Saturday. It has an area of 60 km2, or almost the size of the city of Zurich! The cacti and rare exotic trees bloom. We stroll through El Prado, the magnificent view orchids in the botanical garden, a picnic in a quiet spot and squeeze called us with Emil in a miniature railway, by Emil Tschutschu. Amazingly, we see lying around anywhere in the park bottles, papers or other waste. Why we are denied this peaceful sight in Switzerland?
Sunday morning we head east. In southern Arizona we expect summer temperatures to 30 degrees. We look forward to the warmth and remember the Swiss in the cold left behind.
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