Marina Views and an Afternoon in Downtown San Diego
The Marina District carried most of this day. From the walkway above the docks you could see clear to the Coronado Bridge, with a couple of superyachts tied up in front that made every sailboat behind them look like a toy. Embarcadero Marina Park North sticks out into the bay behind the Convention Center, and across the water the Rady Shell sat folded up like something mid-bloom.
From there we cut inland, under the steel canopy at the trolley station with the condo towers stacked up behind it, and landed at Stone Brewing's tap room. The patio is all boulders and weathered wooden chairs with the gargoyle logo hung on the vine trellis, and it was hard to leave.
Walking back toward the water in the evening, a BNSF freight was parked along the tracks in front of the Hilton Bayfront — that whole stretch of park was built over the old Campbell Shipyard, which you'd never guess now. Ended the night inside Petco Park, where vines hang off the terrace levels in long curtains near the Tony Gwynn mural. A ballpark with better landscaping than most hotels.
