Our visit to see the USS Midway Museum was a worthwhile experience. This was the last stop off for our San Diego experience for today. We hired a car to drive us for the day around San Diego via the hotel Concierge. Our driver was James from "Flexi Transport" who we would highly recommend. James picked us up from the hotel, drove us to Torrey Pines Golf Club and waited while we checked out the course and the Pro Shop, then took us to La Jolla Cove and dropped us off for a look around. He picked us up a few hours later when we rang him and drove us to the USS Midway at the San Diego waterfront - all for a charge of $80 for the whole day. Amazing! We were very impressed with the service and wished we could get something like that in Australia and other places we visit. It was A1 service which we appreciated and he also did not press us for a tip - so we were happy to give him one.
The USS Midway was enormous and there was a huge crowd there - perhaps a lot to do with the fact that is was 9/11 anniversary and there was to be a Memorial Service on the flight deck. The museum was very well set out with good crowd control. We managed to see the most of it and you could not help but feel very insignificant while on board due to the magnitude of it all. Fighter Planes were packed inside like matchbox toys and the flight deck had just about every fighter plane you could think of. We got to go downstairs and upstairs to get a good insight into the lifestyle on board ship.
We were all impressed, especially the boys who wanted to check it all out and were taken out kicking and screaming.
We decided that we knew our way around San Diego so well that we would walk back to our hotel which showed us some new aspects of the city we had not seen.
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