I was again fortunate to be riding "shotgun", which means I get to passenger-sketch my way from Los Angeles, except for occasional navigation duties...Lovely to see a turquoise ocean as we passed through San Onofre...where you also see the decommissioned nuclear power plant peeking around some trees...
Balboa Park was our destination...which I loved visiting as a child, and it's every bit as beautiful and gracious as I remember it. The San Diego Zoo is vast--with far more habitat than animal "exhibits"--just as it should be. Some quick sketches here of the pandas, and the gerenuks...
Sketching a view here of the "Skyfari" and the lovely Museum of Man over lunch at the zoo--in the flight path of the airport, so Southwest airplanes passed by frequently...
Balboa Park takes many more than a few days to explore...gardens, theaters and something like 16 museums. The architecture goes back to the 1916 Panama-California Exposition--and the grand buildings along El Prado promenade are referred to as "Spanish Colonial Revival" style--with wonderfully over-the-top ornamentation...I want to go back and spend more time sketching the way they catch the light! 
My last sketching stop at Balboa Park was the lovely Botanical Building, next to a long reflecting pool. It seemed to me that people were more caught up with their phones than usual...and discovered later that this was the day Pokemon Go was released--apparently the Park is full of them!
Leaving San Diego, just had to visit historic Old Town, as restaurants and shops gear up for lunchtime visitors...
And the road trip continues--home to Los Angeles...
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