San Diego Vacation Part 5: Kansas City Barbecue and Old Town Temecula

By: Andrew Bermudez

     After several long months, I am finally finishing up this vacation report! Let's finish this up!

     For dinner that night after visiting the Maritime Museum, we took some public transportation down the waterfront to Kansas City Barbecue, famous for being one of the filming locations for the movie Top Gun.

     The restaurant serves up casual favorites, including burgers, ribs, fries, mixed vegetables, and more, as well as the actual piano used in the film. While the food was nothing to write home about, it is still cool to see one of the filming locations for a blockbuster movie. The restaurant is a lot smaller than it appears in the movie, though.

     On the way back to the car, we passed by the USS Midway, which is now a museum. We did not go inside during this trip (it's a museum that needs an entire day devoted to it; I'll get to that vacation at a future date), but we did take a few nice evening pictures of the ship, including this one. From there, we headed back to the hotel and settled down for the night.
     The next day, we packed up and headed back home. But on the way there, we stopped in the historic old town district of Temecula for some exercise.

     Now this is something that I was originally going to assign to its own part, but since I need to finish this up, I've grouped this into this part. Old town Temecula is actually, for me, a little surprise. I didn't know what to expect at first, but I found this side trip to be a nice one. We were not able to visit the museum (pictured above), but the antique shopping and the environment made it well worth it. The food was decent too.
     Later that day, we got home, ready to begin writing this account. Who knew it would take this long to finish!
     That's it. I got this account done! I'll admit that I should have fleshed out the Old Town Temecula portion better, but other than that, this account was pretty thorough. Now I'll be able to move on to other vacation accounts, including the one we'll be going on later this summer. What is it? Well, you'll have to find out when the time comes. It is the Summer of Surprises, is it not!?!