el crispito

It's just as well. A ticket to Disneyland costs $56 per person. That does not include parking. Furthermore, while they expanded the park in 2001, Disney fans report that there are no great dining options for vegetarians, and vegans are, as usual, even more screwed. And if you have a food allergy or require low carbohydrate or kosher meals, you have to go through a lot of extra hassle, including avoiding peak dining hours, demanding satisfaction from a manager and waiting 30 minutes for your food.

Instead we drove on to San Diego, where we'll be for a week or perhaps longer, visiting our friends Brian and Nicole. Our first stop was Mandarin Dynasty, which has an extensive vegetarian menu with several varieties of gluten dishes, such as vegetarian sweet and sour pork and vegetarian ham with string beans.

After dinner we drove through Balboa Park. Even in the dark, it's majestic.

Brian's mother is putting us up for a few days so that we can save our cash and stay in San Diego a little longer. She tells us that we are insane for moving to Mexico.

Later on, we went to Lestat's, a 24-hour coffee shop at 3343 Adams Avenue and saw some beautiful photographs of local kids by Terry Smith. They were at once sexy, melancholy and defiant.