Travel to San Diego: Two musts are visiting the San Diego Zoo and eating seafood

My last visit to San Diego was first and foremost to meet with Aira, a start-up service enabling the blind and vision impaired to navigate the world more independently. But more on Aira later. Let’s talk about what else I did in San Diego.

Day 1 in San Diego

• La Puerta
• Juniper & Ivy

We arrive in San Diego and walk to a nearby restaurant, La Puerta, to catch happy hour. The hubs and I order local craft beers on draft and some tacos and guacamole to share.Then later on in the evening, we have a business dinner with Suman, the CEO of Aira, and his wife at Juniper & Ivy, which is Chef Richard Blais’s San Diego restaurant. I’ve eaten at his former Atlanta restaurant, The Spence, back in 2013 and enjoyed it, so I didn’t expect to be disappointed here either.

Day 2 in San Diego

• San Diego Zoo
• Ironside Fish & Oyster

[embed]https://youtu.be/hWqiRE1Lblo[/embed]In the morning, I visit Aira headquarters where I get fitted for my new Aira Glass (more on this next time). In the afternoon, the hubs and I check out the San Diego Zoo. It’s the first time for both of us, and we are enthralled by its vastness. The last time I’d been to a zoo, I was very young, and I remembered all the animals encaged in captivity. Here in San Diego, the animals live in a mini-wilderness. There are no cages, but rather large landscapes of jungle, forestry, and seawater, and the animals are right there in their element. Pretty amazing.Afterwards, we dine at Ironside Fish & Oyster—when in San Diego, you gotta stuff yourself silly with seafood!I love San Diego for its casual, laidback beach culture and its relatively slower pace than that of its northern neighbor L.A. Southern Californians, do you know how lucky you are?