Down and Out in Denver

The view from my hotel room

It has been a full week since we posted and part of that is because I was off to San Diego for the weekend for work.  My apologies.  I have little to say except that the weather was absolutely stunning.  Apparently that’s what San Diego is known for, but it was my first trip there so I had no idea.  I left Denver this past Thursday morning when the temperature was hovering somewhere just above zero (Fahrenheit!!!) and arrived to a balmy 70-something that continued throughout my four days in San Diego.  I stayed downtown by the harbor and the bay and had the view above from my hotel room.  I also ran along that promenade down below.  Needless to say — and with a sunset like the one below — leaving was a little painful.

Sunset across San Diego Bay

That said, I’m not sure I would actually want to live in San Diego, maybe just visit regularly during the winter?  It reminded me a little of LA in its shininess and the freshness and plasticity of some of its people.  It also seems to be a driving city, not that we had cars. I am a walker whenever possible.  I went out only one night to gay bars — with friends of a friend who actually live in San Diego and so we got something of a tour — and one of these friends told me that gay life there is a wee bit mindless.  His example: he’d gone to San Francisco for New Year’s Eve and met himself an eligible gay doctor, whereupon he realized anew that gay people actually could be doctors.  His point was that gay life in San Diego was more than a little vapid and shallow.  Reminds me of somewhere else I know…

That said, it sure is pretty and while the weather in D-Town is pretty nice today (and promises more of the same tomorrow) I can’t say I’m not missing an outdoor lunch with 75 degree temperatures and not a cloud in the sky.