Which was once its own city and now has been subsumed by Los Angeles. The ship docked right before 0700 after a long and extremely slow sail in. The Port of Los Angeles is extremely large with heavy traffic around the clock. There are about 2-3 cruise ship docking locations, but this really is a commercial port. Pier 92 has a real building; we were docked next to a grey, extensive Quonset hut set up.
Shortly after docking I headed out and up the hill toward decent coffee (not excellent, you have to understand but a whole lot better than what I can find on the ship without shelling out). I made the mistake of attempting to use the Starbuck’s app which seemed to think I was in Victoria. Nope, but my regular map app came through. This is the same coffee shop I visited the last time I was here.
Reason for doing this? A good friend, originally met in 1995 lives in the Irwin area and drove up just so we could have coffee together. It was good seeing him again and getting an update on his family, health situation, and future plans. And, as we both concur, grey hair is by far preferable to no hair….
I stopped at the USS Iowa on the way back. It has been years since I toured her, but nothing really has changed (duh), The kind woman at the exit let me go in the exit and directly (more or less) to their small gift shop where I picked up a pin. Then it was back to the ship for the duration. We sailed out around 1500 with quiet seas and nowhere near as much overhead noise as the night before.
