All photos of Day 1 in San Diego available on Flickr.
LA had his highs and its lows, but Erik and I were both glad to finally leave the City of Angels today. We left around 9:30 AM and found a reasonably priced hotel near downtown relatively quickly. After checking in, we went to pick up my friend Mary at the airport, who flew in for the week since we're here for 5 days, and who wouldn't want to go to San Diego if presented the opportunity? Today was another off day, and the three of us spent the afternoon walking around downtown San Diego and an area known as Gastown. We saw a pretty secluded and outstanding outdoor mall down there and it was definitely the highlight of the day. We also got to preview PETCO Park a little bit before we visit it tomorrow for the game.
After exploring downtown, we stopped at a little old movie theater on the way back to the hotel and saw the Simpsons Movie, which ended up being pretty good and long overdue. After a quick bite to eat and a half-price bottle of wine at a nice tapas restaurant in Gastown, we arrived back at the hotel around 8pm. Mary was pretty beat since she's still mentally on east coast time and immediately fell asleep, and Erik and I stayed up for a bit blogging. Tomorrow we plan on heading to the beach and doing a bit more sightseeing before going to the Padres game at 7.
touch with baseball when his childhood heroes Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Jim Gantner retired but the Great Home Run Chase of 1998 reignited his passion. As a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Erik became involved with the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity. With this group Erik traveled to Portland, OR and Baltimore, MD to work on construction projects and help the group raise $25,000 to partially sponsor a house in Milwaukee. Also at UWM, Erik met Peter Nagel. The two attended their first Brewers game together during Opening Weekend 2003. Despite their failure to ignite the coals at their first tailgate, the two had a blast and were soon making weekly trips to the ballpark. Erik has gone on to several colleges and changed careers several times, and has moved all the way out to New Hampshire, but has always stayed true to his baseball roots by holding part-time stadium usher jobs. To this day he looks back fondly on his incredible cross-country journey.
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