Seaport Village has been a main highlight of downtown San Diego since the 1980s. However, it is slated for major redevelopment. This is our Seaport Village guide as it currently exists in 2019. WEBSITE: https://www.seaportvillage.com History Seaport Village opened in 1980 at the center of San Diego’s downtown harbor. It is located on 14-acres by…
Fun Diego Family has been on multiple road trips across the United States. This is a wonderful way to see the country. We thought we would share several different routes from trips driving across the United States. Overview Of course, living in San Diego we generally start in the West and head East. Usually we…
When we make mashed potatoes we almost always have leftovers. One of our favorite uses for leftover mashed potatoes is in a casserole. A classic casserole is shepherd’s pie, or in our version cottage pie. This is our cottage pie recipe. Go To Recipe There is often confusion about the difference between cottage pie and…
Our last day of driving across the United States was technically only a 5-hour drive. However, adding in a huge bike ride on the Creeper Trail and a massive traffic jam it turned out to be much longer. This drive took us up the western edge of Virginia. We spent the night in Abingdon, VA…
The Comic-Con Museum is scheduled to open in San Diego’s Balboa Park in 2021. However, it is already hosting some exciting events that give us a taste of how awesome this museum could become. One such event was the Pop-Up Batman Experience held during Comic-Con 2019. WEBSITE: https://comic-conmuseum.org/ Being home to the huge Comic-Con Convention…
Tennessee is by the far the longest state on our drive across the United States. We started in the far southwestern corner and drove the entire length of the state to the northeast corner at Bristol. Our day ended right across the Tennessee/Virginia border in Abingdon, VA. I lived in Nashville for two years and…
Day five of our drive across the United States was our shortest drive. We toured Memphis most of the day before driving the short 3-hour trip to Nashville. Memphis has a great deal of sites to see, especially if you are into music. Driving across the Mississippi on the I-40 we were intrigued by the…
Oklahoma City was a new place for us, so we wanted to take some time to explore. Day 4 of our drive across the United States was only 7 hours to Memphis so we were not in a rush. Oklahoma gets a bad rap, but we found Oklahoma City to be surprisingly hip. We wanted…
On day three of our trip we made up much of the time we lost in our Grand Canyon detour. We shot all the way across New Mexico, Texas and into the middle of Oklahoma. This is 11 hours of driving, but we still made time to see plenty of cool sites. We got an…
Day two of our driving across the United States trip was all about exploring. In terms of heading across country we made little progress. However, we got to see some great sites, most notably the Grand Canyon. We started the day in Williams, Arizona. Williams is a small tourist town that is a prime gateway…