{"id":909,"date":"2012-09-08T22:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T05:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=909"},"modified":"2016-08-28T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:39:05","slug":"september-8-san-dieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/08\/september-8-san-dieg\/","title":{"rendered":"September 8: To San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-947\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/San-Diego-Skyline.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/San-Diego-Skyline.png\" alt=\"San Diego Skyline\" title=\"San Diego Skyline\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/San-Diego-Skyline.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/San-Diego-Skyline-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego Skyline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Mile 6912 &#8211; Alpine, California.<\/strong>\u00a0 After\u00a0two days in Los Angeles, we drove down to the San Diego area to meet an old friend, Wayne Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>At the point where I-5 and I-405 merge into 11 lanes (2 feeder lanes, 2 commuter lanes, and 7 regular lanes), we ran into traffic delays.\u00a0 Apparently 11 lanes is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>After driving over the Ortega Highway, we decended to Lake Elsinore, where the thermometer\u00a0reached 102 F (39 C), the highest temperature of our trip so far. In San Diego, the temperature was comfy again.<\/p>\n<p>We had dinner with Wayne, overlooking San Diego harbor and recounting old memories,\u00a0and then bagged another postcard at the Hotel del Coronado at night.<\/p>\n<p>This is the end of our trip down the west coast.\u00a0 Tomorrow we&#8217;ll start heading back east on the return phase of our trip.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-949\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ortega-Highway.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ortega-Highway.png\" alt=\"Ortega Highway\" title=\"Ortega Highway\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ortega-Highway.png 300w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ortega-Highway-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleveland National Forest from the Ortega Highway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-948\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lake-Elsinore.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lake-Elsinore.png\" alt=\"Lake Elsinore, California\" title=\"Lake Elsinore\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lake-Elsinore.png 400w, https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lake-Elsinore-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Elsinore from the Ortega Highway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Vintage Postcard Project:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/vintage\/september-8-san-diego\" title=\"Aunt Esther's Vintage Postcards(new site)\">September 8: San Diego, California<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Photographs &copy; 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mile 6912 &#8211; Alpine, California.\u00a0 After\u00a0two days in Los Angeles, we drove down to the San Diego area to meet an old friend, Wayne Jackson. At the point where I-5 and I-405 merge into 11 lanes (2 feeder lanes, 2 commuter lanes, and 7 regular lanes), we ran into traffic delays.\u00a0 Apparently 11 lanes is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/08\/september-8-san-dieg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;September 8: To San Diego&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}