La Mesa RV put in the new cooling unit in the RV on Tuesday and we spent the night in their parking lot to be sure that it worked. It cooled all night long so we let Tucson early Wednesday morning for San Diego. We saw lots of beautiful mountains and unusual rock formations along the way.

We stopped at a rest area in the Imperial Sand Dunes area. When you've seen one sand dune you have pretty much seen another.

The did reach for miles on both sides of the highway.

We were unable to get a site at Admiral Baker on the navy base so we went to the KOA in San Diego. It is a very attractive, well kept park.

We awoke on Thursday morning and made plans to go the San Diego Zoo.

There are two topiary elephants gracing the entrance.

Here is Wayne waiting for me by two metal sculptures. There are some nice sculptures throughout the park.

We rode the double-decker bus around for a tour before setting off on foot. These two tigers must be young as they were playing with a bag hanging from a tree and later we observed them chasing each other.

This bear looked as if he was posing for a picture.

I forget the name of this animal but he was cute. This may have been the spectacle bear.

This is just two of the adult giraffes with a new baby giraffe.

The Meerkats are so cute. The also look like they are posing for the crowd.

San Diego has two Giant Pandas on loan from China. This one is the mother of the other one who was sleeping like a lot of the animals in the park.

These were to pretty monkeys.

When we arrived at the Cheetah cage they were cleaning it. When the girl finished she put a cow femur on a ledge on the cage at the front of the cage. This is the cat coming to find her treat.

She made a leap up to get the bone.

Then she carried it off to her den.

This mountain lion seemed to be alerted by something outside the cage and came right up to the fencing. She then followed Wayne with her eyes as we walked by.

The landscaping of the grounds is beautiful. Each area is landscaped with plant native to the habitat of the animals. This was a particularly unusual cactus.

This Orangutan is know as the artist. I think he may be the one I have seen painting pictures. He is the leader of this group.

This is his latest offspring.

I think this is a beautiful monkey.

Here we have one of the tigers grooming him/herself.

Just in case I don't get to see one this summer in Alaska, I took this picture of a polar bear. The white stuff is sand not snow.

This was a very stately horned animal.

We took the Skyrail back from the polar bear exhibit to the front of the zoo.

I took this picture of a very interesting church from the skyrail.

We drove around Balboa park on the way back to the RV. We plan to see more of San Diego tomorrow.