Day 129 San Diego CA

God I need help! Why can’t I get up at a reasonable time? Still, I only had a few miles to the CA border and San Diego was pretty close. This was the area of the real desert, like huge sand dunes and passes through the hills strewn with millions of huge boulders. My stupid cruise control stopped working too but at least I knew how to quickly fix it now and happily I finally got a call from Tamara. She had missed all her mails being forwarded from her Couchsurfing account and hence didn’t know I was in Tucson. She was now in the middle of Mexico after sitting on a bus for a whole day and miles away from me. I was glad she was ok but now I was 2 hours outside of San Diego and thinking about visiting my other surfing friend Bonnie in LA, since I was so close. As I came into SD it got nice and warm as I hoped it would. The Pacific was keeping the chill off the land and I was desperate to get away from the near freezing conditions I had endured for the last month. I found a Starbucks to get my coffee and Internet fix and pondered my next move.


There seemed to be a Couchsurfing gathering going on that night so that was an option, it didn’t look as though there would be lots of people though. I checked peoples profiles for someone interesting to stay with and thought it best to follow my usual plan of just turning up to a meeting and seeing what happened. I got the address and it was 9pm by the time I set off to find it. I got to the address and couldn’t see a bar, I then spent 20 minutes walking, driving and looking for an Internet connection to recheck the details in the same square mile of the address until I read a further message on the topic and got the name of the party, a pizza place 15 meters from where i had originally parked up. I went in and the place was packed with students and then I had the usual issue of looking for someone who I vaguely remembered from their profile picture. Thankfully I spotted Carissa, who had posted the meeting, quite quickly, but she was pretty drunk since it was now 10pm and no other surfers had turned up. Happy birthday to her anyway! :) I sat and twiddled my thumbs for a few minutes before deciding it would be best to get out of there, I didn’t want to be the boring sober guy who no one knows so I was happier not to make everyone else and myself uncomfortable. There were a few other things going on over the weekend but I figured if I didn’t get a host the next day I may as well head to LA and see bonita Bonnie :)



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