Megabus is a British company that just started running some medium-distance buses around the west coast. All routes start or end in LA. Their whole deal is the $1 fare. The first 3 or so seats on each bus are sold for a buck each. Nice! I bought my tickets a week in advance, it was $28 bucks SF->LA, then another $5 for LA->SD. I left SF at midnight on wednesday, got to SD at 10AM the next day. Definitely not worth it… take southwest. But this trip’s got a land travel theme to it…

San Diego is a much more of a city than I had thought. It’s not just a suburban desert, there’s a small but lively downtown peppered with new development. I stayed at HI SD Downtown, it’s right in the heart of things. Wandering around SD I ran into the Midway…

The Midway rocks. USA’s every-record-in-the-books carrier, it went into service in WWII and continued all the way into Desert Storm. Airplane buffs out there, what’s this one?

Finally, if you’re in SD, the local brew is Rock Bottom. The brewery is very friendly, lively, a good place to stop by to grab a drink.