David Chiu

On Saturday H and I drove to San Diego to visit her sister who was in town working on an internship. I personally have never been to San Diego so I plotted our route using Google Maps. The two-hour drive wasn’t too bad until we started looking for the last exit listed by Google Maps - “Otay Valley Rd”. We were driving happily along looking for the exit and were suddenly startled when we noticed the sign “Last USA Exit”. To our surprise we had arrived at the Mexico border! I had forgotten how close we lived to Mexico and now I was looking at a mexican flag flying high across the border. We had to turn around and I weaved through traffic trying to find the freeway entrance heading back north. I followed one sign that took us into the border town but there was no entrance to the freeway. We looped around and I tried a different route to no luck. I finally ended up stopping at a gas station to get directions (yes I admit when I’m lost). We eventually made it back to the freeway and headed north. H called her sister and was able to find out the exit we should’ve taken - which by the way was not Otay Valley Rd but Auto Valley Parkway.

That afternoon we ended up visiting the San Diego Zoo and later went to the beautiful island town of Coronado for dinner and drinks. San Diego is absolutely beautiful. Much more than LA. In fact H and I discussed the possibility of moving to Coronado or at least closer to San Diego. Later research proved that I would have to have a pretty successful acting career to move to Coronado since the prices of houses we found started at $16mil.