We began today with a visit to Denny's- a must for breakfast (or any time of day) and discovered it was a public holiday which explained the lack of rush-hour traffic. One American Slam later we were ready to hit the road and head to San Diego.

We found a nice hotel and tracked down somewhere for lunch and headed back to the hotel to chill.
In the evening we drove to downtown San Diego for a walk and explored the Gas Lamp district.
San Diego has the most amazing airport- you don't notice it until you spot a plane swooping down low over the city and landing in what looks like the centre of town- very disconcerting when you first see it!
The Gas Lamp district was full of lovely restaurants, shops and little wooden houses.
We'd eaten far too much that day to consider even entering a restaurant so instead decided to drive to a supermarket and just buy some fruit and youghurt- this simple idea led to one of the most shocking things I'd even seen- ok maybe I've led a sheltered life?!!?
Buying fresh food seems a simple enough request right? Well apparently not. We found a nice big Walmart and managed to buy some bits we wanted i.e. a camera bag, some scarves and look at digital camera, then we thought we'd get the food and go.
We began to wander the aisles but no fruit, so we walked around again thinking we'd just missed it. Then again, and then again.
At this point we were starting to laugh as we realised we couldn't find any fresh food (apart from milk and bacon) no fruit or veg, no yoghurts, no meat, fish, cheese etc. Eventuallly we asked someone if they sold any fresh food- the honest answer- 'no'.
There were aisles and aisles of crisps, sweets, soft drinks, snacks etc but absolutely no fresh or 'healthy' food. This was in an area with absolutely no 'local' shops so we knew there wasn't any alternative. The shop was full of people doing their weekly shopping and of course all the trolleys were full of junk- obesity crisis anyone? I wonder how long before shops in the UK follow this wonderful new trend?