Five Activities Everyone Must Try While Vacationing In San Diego

By Terry Hunefeld

1. Spend your vacation in the heart of San Diego at a one of the may quality hotels in Old Town. Take the time to explore the many historic sites and shop in a variety of stores that can only be found in Old Town. They all offer different types of unique and delicious items just waiting for you to discover! You may wander through historic buildings (a blacksmith shop, historic stables and the oldest schoolhouse in San Diego). At the Southern entrance to Old Town, overlooking San Diego Avenue from the second floor, is El Agave Restaurant and Tequileria. As you enter from a curved staircase with Mexican tile and cactus plants you have a sense of Old Mexico. A short walkway past wonderful, balcony seating and you arrive at the dark but inviting doorway and inside you will find an array of tequila like you won't find anywhere else -1,700 bottles of tequila, some over 100 years old.

2. Visit the Cave Store at La Jolla. What would you expect to find in a "cave store", maybe some fossils or seashells? There's more. They have a hole in the floor of the store that leads down to the only sea cave in California you can enter by land via 40 stairs into the earth - the wonderful and spooky Sunny Jim Cave. The smells, the sounds, the feel! Walls of the tunnel have water trickling and you go down...down...until you walk out a small wooden dock into the cave with the ocean crashing on the rocks below and gulls nesting in tucked away places above.

3. Visit downtown San Diego's Seaport Village for hours of free entertainment, leisurely strolling and window-shopping. Here you can explore 50-plus diverse shops, 17 unique eateries and outdoor entertainment and find everything under the sun. Alongside four miles of tree-lined paths you'll find all sorts of entertainers doing their thing. Bands, singers, dancers, magicians, whatever. There's something for any age, so have a seat, take in a show and get a little sun. Check for the scheduled stage performances and daily entertainers. All of the talent performs, where else, outdoors - after all, you're in San Diego!

4. Bike or jog along Mission Bay Park's many trails. Joggers and walkers share more than 20 miles of scenic running paths that wind through sunlight and shade near the shoreline and feature workout courses at planned stations along the route. Mission Bay Park is the largest man-made aquatic park in the United States (over 4,235 acres). Here you'll find tons of stuff to do including paths for walking and jogging, and playgrounds for children. It is one of San Diego's most popular locations to picnic, ride a bike, fly a kite or sail a model yacht. Fire rings make it possible to cook out and stay warm. Here, away from overhead wires, friends and family gather to launch colorful kites into the bay breezes. A great place for a beach chair and a book.

5. We've got 70 miles of coastline here in San Diego. That translates into dozens of sun-worshiping possibilities. The best part is that San Diego beaches are all free. They are all great for swimming, surfing, jogging, body surfing, boogie-boarding, reading that mystery novel, people watching, collecting seashells or just chilling.

Following are three websites with helpful lodging information when you visit San Diego or other surrounding communities: San Diego B&Bs, Carlsbad Bed and Breakfasts and Hotels in Del Mar California.

About the Author:

Terry Hunefeld retired in 2007 from his job as a CEO to pursue his passion of sailing the world's oceans observing seabirds and marine mammals. Terry and his wife purchased and now operate a quiet, imtimate B&Balong the Pacific Ocean at Moonlight Beach in north San Diego. For more information visit: San Diego Bed and Breakfasts or San Diego Beach Hotels.

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