San Diego: exploring day

At some point in every good journey should be a time of relaxation and reward. Right now I am in Balboa Park, at a restaurant called the Prado. It's in a very serene and luxurious area decorated ith plm and fig trees and flowers all around. The restaurant is one of several establishments surrounding a central open-air court with a fountain and pool in teh middle.
i set out this afternon on a 3-mile walk to the San Diego Aerospace museum, with natural expectations to just get there. But I soon discovered that the journey there was really the highlight of the afternoon. I strolled by exotic California flowers, friendly people who smiled when they passed, a beautiful view of the San Diego Bay and skyline. Occasionally an airliner would fly a couple hundred feet overhead on final into runway 27 at SAN.

a couple steep hills challenged my pace, but what most slowed me was the impulse every several minutes to pull my camera out to take pictures of sign or flowers or landmarks or buildings. Then I got into Balboa Park, introduced by a grand archway and continuing on to a whole different culture than that of the city outside.
I meandered through the park trying to find a certain road to lead me to the Aerospace museum, and encountered a welcome diversion into the lovely flowerbeds, an amphitheater, a Japanese garden and many other lovely scenes along the way. The museum was situated just so that tourists can watch airplanes flying behind the museum on their final into SAN. The museum was nothing remarkable, just a check off the list compared to other museums I've been to. My present listing of aviation museums i've visited:

Dayton Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio
Smithsonian Institute Air museum, Washington, D.C. mall
Smithsonian Institute Air museum, Dulles airport, Washington, D.C.
Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida
Air Force Academy museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Evergreen Air Museum in Portland, Oregon (home of the Spruce Goose)
Flight of the Phoenix Museum in Gilmer, Texas
San Diego Aerospace Museum in San Diego, California