USA - Dag 15 - Old Town San Diego

Vi er taget en tur ind til Od Town San Diego. Vi håber at finde noget godt Mexikansk mad til frokost.

The San Diego Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá were founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portolá and Junípero Serra on a bluff at the western end of the San Diego Rivervalley. The Presidio and Mission constituted the first Spanish settlement in Alta California, the present day state of California. After five years the Mission moved to a location several miles upriver, while the Presidio on its hill remained the primary settlement. In the 1820s the town of San Diego grew up at the base of the bluff, at the site commemorated by Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, while the Presidio fell into disrepair.

In 1834 the Mexican government granted San Diego the status of a pueblo, or chartered town. However, the population of the town declined so much that in 1838 its pueblo status was revoked. One problem was the town's location far from navigable water. All imports and exports had to be brought ashore in Point Loma and carried several miles over the La Playa Trail to the town.

The Old Town area remained the heart of the city of San Diego until the 1860s, when a newcomer to San Diego named Alonzo Horton began to promote development at the site of present-day Downtown San Diego. Residents and businesses quickly abandoned "Old Town" for Horton's "New Town" because of New Town's proximity to shipping. In 1871, government records were moved from Old Town to a new county courthouse in New Town, and Downtown permanently eclipsed Old Town as the focal point of San Diego. When California was admitted to the United States in 1850, San Diego (still largely limited to the Old Town area) was made the county seat of San Diego County, even though the town's population was only 650.

In the 1910s, Old Town became one of the many San Diego neighborhoods connected by the Class 1 streetcars and an extensive San Diego public transit system that was spurred by the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 and built by John D. Spreckels. These streetcars became a fixture of this neighborhood until their retirement in 1939

Så flot med det keramik... Elsker de farver og vil gerne have det hele med hjem

Vi fandt det skønneste sted til frokost - El Patio og der sad en og spillede mexikansk musik osv. Helt perfekt og sultne vi er.

Vi startede med lidt Tacos og sovs

Så fik vi små pandekager med kylling og ost og stærk krydderi.

Til Hovedret fik Jacob en skål med kød, ost og grøntsager der stegte på siderne af skålen, det var lavasten og de var derfor varme.. en fantastisk duft og sjov oplevelse.

Jeg fik et fad med alt muligt Mexikanske retter.. UHM det smagte, men der var bare alt for meget af det. 

Vi er sååååååå mætte og nu trænger vi virkelig til en gåtur, så vi vælger at gå hele turen omkring Old Town... En fin lille tur med gode oplevelser

Øhhh HVAD ER DET??? (Det er mange år siden, vi sidst så sådan en)

Whaley House???? Jeg gik længe og spekulerede over det. Hvor var de tnu jeg kednte det navn fra, men da jeg ikke havde internet på det tidspunkt, kom jeg fra det igen, men da jeg kom hjem, kom det så pludselig til mig.. Det er en af de mest hauntede huse i USA... (Hvorfor kom jeg dog ikke derind)!!!