Nosher in the home office
A Trip to San Diego, California, USA - 11th January 2005
It's the first trip to Qualcomm - the company that just bought start-up Trigenix - and its headquarters in San Diego, via Virgin Upper Class, stretch limos, champagne and massages on the plane. After a couple of days stuck mostly in windowless conference rooms, it's good to get out on a Saturday and explore outside for a bit. By handy coincidence of timing, we're there for both the Martin Luther King parade and the San Diego Multicultural day, and the weather had significantly picked up from the week before our visit, which had seen more rain in a few days than the usual monthly average, with some heavy landslides further up the coast.
next album: Martin Luther King Day and Gomez at the Belly Up, San Diego, California - 15th January 2005
previous album: Sausages at the Swan and Revs Gets Decorated, Diss and Brome, Norfolk and Suffolk - 7th January 2005
Fellow traveller John Scott in the back of a stretch limo
The view from the hotel window
Rusty and John roam around
We pack our bags for the first drive around the local area
The Star of India restaurant
Russell gets some orange juice for breakfast
We find the entrance to head office
Qualcomm's Building R
Building Q, across the parking lot
The Qualcomm sign
A banner dangling from an atrium
A street in La Jolla
John, Brian Dunphy and Sang
The gang in George's at the Cove, La Jolla
The red wine on the table was about $200 a bottle
We prepare for our first presentation
A massive screen awaits
Rusty and a local contact in a Thai restaurant, Del Mar
Russell points at his food
The next day, there's a fancy Rolls-Royce outside the hotel
A funky flower
The Marriott Del Mar's swimming pool
A line of pool chairs
Down the I-5, there's a bunch of Harley boys out for a ride
Russell points to something extreme on the menu
The Broken Yoke on Garnet Avenue's claim is 'we've got huevos'
John orders something
This is the modest 4-egg omlette. There was a 12-egg on the menu
Russell and his pile of food
US newspaper boxes
Garnet Avenue
A teeshirt seller
A San Diego fire department truck
John roams arouns
A kite flyer in Marina Park
We check the map out
The quaint, but perhaps obviously-named Pier café
A fishing boat and water taxi
Russell scopes out some paintings
A San Diego war memorial
Some cyclists raise money for leukaemia research
The USS Midway, with the USS Nimitz in the background
Some guy in the weapons control room fiddles with some radio knobs
A view of San Diego and the Manchester Grand Hyatt
Russell has a break
A C-1 'Trader' aircraft, number 700, flown by Lt. Phil 'Cowboy' Napierskie
Old Glory and downtown San Diego
Russell tests out a small missile
An F-4S Phantom II
The carrier's 'island' command-and-control centre
A group of Marines heads back up the runway after recounting stories of their time service on the Midway
A former crewman of the Midway, and now tour guide (or Docent)
Another crew member shows us some stuff
The sailing ship Star of India
A giant ship's screw (propellor)
A San Diego administrative building, from around 1930
Paying for parking, as a plane comes in to land in the background
The Pickwick Hotel, in the Gaslamp district
An unexpected ice rink
Kids are ice skating in California
Down in the Gaslamp district
We find a sports bar with its own brewery
Sports bar life
A nice motorbike
A clock on the wall
The old Balboa cinema
Some sort of fountain/sculpture down by the Convention Center
Tall buildings
Russell gets a passing Mariachi troupe to stop for a photo
There's a Maori hakka at the San Diego multicultural event
Dog in a bag
A flame thrower
Some sort of Hawai'ian dancing
A green-ringed building
Streetlife near the Marriott
A nice old car trundles down Pacific Coast Highway 101
Rusty and John look over the cliff
A view of the sea near Torrey Pines
A lone walker on the beach
John and Russell
This prickly pear looks like a certain litigious mouse
John's on the phone
We cross a branch line railway track
A surfer on the beach
The sea laps at the shore
Russell waves his arms around
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