We'd been itching for a trip, had some vacation time we needed to take and gas prices are lower than they've been in a long time = road trip!  However, our travel money is virutally non-existent right now so we had to find a way to do it on the cheap.  Since we have a suite at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego at our disposal, this was the obvious choice.  One of our traveling buddies (@tamtak) has joined us and kindly provided the car so here we are in SoCal on a mini -- 5 day -- vacation.  It's @tamtak's first time here so we're hoping to make it a memorable trip even though we're trying to keep to a tight budget.  Let's see how that goes.... LOL