Southwestern U.S. Tour: Day 4

After starting the day again with Starbucks in hand, it was time to point the rental car south with an endpoint of San Diego in mind. But there are places worth stopping or seeing along the way, including Mission San Juan Capistrano, just north of San Clemente, CA.

I'd been here years ago, thanks to good friend and UVA chum Sheryl Cohen, with whom I had dinner last night out in the San Fernando Valley (as mentioned in yesterday's blog post).

Lunch was at Port Pizza in San Clemente. Part of the rest of the drive was over on the 101 Coastal Highway, which included passing through Encinitas, Solano Beach, and Del Mar. A mid-afternoon arrival in San Diego meant there was time to sit in the warm sunshine in Balboa Park and read a while before hunting up another Starbucks and a couple of used bookstores.

Dinner out at the Pacific Beach Fish Shop with former Wake Forest student Trevor LaFauci made the day complete.