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Guest City: San Diego — Touring on the Cheap (aka “Is that entry fee in US Dollars?”)

Wednesday April 25, 2012

When I found out Dave had a work trip to San Diego, for two days, I was all daydreams of swimming with Shamu and cruising past sprinting cheetahs in my lady-on-safari outfit.

And then came the sticker shock. SeaWorld: $73. SeaWorld Parking: $14. San Deigo Zoo: $42. Two day total: $129. For one person. And that’s before all the “park experience” packages and food. Oof.

So, we’re going to discuss how to do San Diego on the cheap today, focusing on San Diego’s strong military presence and its history as the oldest city in California. We’re boarding the USS Midway, going ghost hunting in America’s Most Haunted House, and seeing how Southern California reinterpreted Frank Lloyd Wright at the Marston House. And how are we getting there? Public transit, baby.

I think I just saved you a few thousand dollars.

Part 1: San Diego’s Buses are Better than Ours — Getting around with the San Diego MTS and the Google Maps App

Part 2: Getting Lost On the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier — Just me and a few hundred of my favorite salty veterans

Part 3: STOP ACTING WEIRD — Ghost hunting at the Whaley House

Part 4: Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Calling All Hipsters to Old Town San Diego

Part 5: The Marston House — Southern California Interprets the Arts and Crafts Movement

Part 6: Hiking on the edge of the Pacific in La Jolla 

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