san diego

I left my friends in Pasadena and drove south to San Diego. This city is very close to Mexico and when you are walking on the street you hear a lot of spanish voices. Mexicans are also very cheap workers, here is an example of a very very cheap advertisment sign.



I visited the famous zoo, its really nice with much space for the animals. My favourite there was the area with the orang-utans. To watch them what they are doing was very funny. One of them sat down at the window and was watching us, i wonder who was the spectator and who the exhibit.

After that I went to a discharged aircraft carrier, which has been changed into a museum, the USS Midway. This ship was the headquarter during the Operation Desert Storm, where the allied forces claimed Kuwait back from the iraqui troops.



It payed off to be a high ranking officer at this ship. Otherwise you had to sleep in bunk beds like these ones.

The space under the matres is also your wardrobe, not much space indeed. I learned about the difficulties of landing and taking off from this ship and also how much organization is needed to keep this small city on a boat functioning. Many people working on this museum are volunteers, former members of the navy.

I also visited the area, where I spent a week with my former company. I was there in 2002, half a year after 9/11. We made some jokes, that this hotel consists also of two towers...