Saturday (July 21, 2007 if you’re scoring at home) was a driving day. It shouldn’t have been but that’s LA traffic for you. At my cousin Tim’s suggestion we took 101 through the city, and that turned out to be a good one. We got through town pretty quickly, and I’m sure that the 405 would have been a nightmare because the XM traffic report said that several exits were closed due to “police activity.”
The problems showed up after we left LA as we were driving down I-5. At first we thought we were experiencing “beach traffic” and it would clear up soon. That was not to be. There was some kind of fair going on in one of the towns between LA and San Diego and we got caught in the mess. The trip took several hours longer than it should have. If we had been aware of the fair, we would have jumped over to I-15 and (hopefully) missed the brunt of it.
We arrived in San Diego in mid-afternoon tired and cranky. We were going to walk around Old Town for a while but parking was non existent. We finally decided to eat a late lunch and find a hotel.
Lunch of course was at Casa Guadalajara. We first visited Casa Guadalajara last year and you can read about it here. The place was crowded but we did get a table outside almost immediately.
The food this trip was as good as we expected but the service was a bit off this time. This trip I ordered the chicken with pumpkin seed mole. If was very good, if a bit salty. I really enjoyed it but I have to admit that the pumpkin mole at Loteria Grill that I had on Thursday was better. I sampled some food from Janet’s plate and it was as good as I remember it. And once again the home made flour tortillas were wonderful.
It had been a long day because of the traffic, and we decided to find a hotel and relax. We drove north to Escondido, mainly because the next place we wanted to visit was close by there, and we didn’t want to spend all of our time fighting traffic on Sunday.
After walking around town a bit to get some exercise, we returned to our hotel and ordered dinner: Roundtable pizza delivered to our room. It was comfort food and we had enough for leftovers the next night.
Stumble it!