Our Mexican cruise - first port of call, San Diego

Our ship, the Crown Princess, docked in San Diego

The first port of call on our 10-day Mexican cruise was San Diego, United States. We've spent enough time there in the past that we've done the tourist things that interest us. We therefore chose to go for a long walk around the downtown area and harbour front, where you can see this 25' statue.

Officially named "Unconditional Surrender"
better known as "Kissing Statue"
celebrating the end of World War II

The weather was warm (high 70s) and sunny so it was lovely; nice enough for group yoga classes outdoors.

 We saw a variety of options for transportation. Greg particularly liked this street car.

We also saw banks of bike racks which were from some type of a sharing or rental program. The sharing program for this car2go electric car in the photo below required a membership card that's read at the white area on the dash and then the door opens. Now that's a smart car!

Greg adopted a new sheep, which was good as we’d forgotten to bring any with us. His name? Diego, of course. Do you see a trend here? Remember Sol and Vang last week, from Solvang?

Greg and Diego sharing a cerveza

As one of more than 3000 passengers, I was impressed with how streamlined Princess was with its passengers, whether it was in the restaurants onboard, or tenders to port. I never felt like part of a cattle call that I've heard about for ships of this size. Good job, Princess!

In the next blog I'll cover our Mexican ports. ¡Hasta pronto!