title A Trip to San Diego, California, USA - 11th January 2005 intro It's the first trip to Qualcomm - the company that just bought start-up Trigenix - and its headquarters in San Diego, via Virgin Upper Class, stretch limos, champagne and massages on the plane. After a couple of days stuck mostly in windowless conference rooms, it's good to get out on a Saturday and explore outside for a bit. By handy coincidence of timing, we're there for both the Martin Luther King parade and the San Diego Multicultural day, and the weather had significantly picked up from the week before our visit, which had seen more rain in a few days than the usual monthly average, with some heavy landslides further up the coast. imgp2228 Nosher in the home office imgp2360 Fellow traveller John Scott in the back of a stretch limo imgp2362 The view from the hotel window imgp2364 Rusty and John roam around imgp2365 We pack our bags for the first drive around the local area imgp2366 The Star of India restaurant imgp2367 Russell gets some orange juice for breakfast imgp2370 We find the entrance to head office imgp2373 Qualcomm's Building R imgp2375 Building Q, across the parking lot imgp2376 The Qualcomm sign imgp2378 A banner dangling from an atrium imgp2380 A street in La Jolla imgp2383 John, Brian Dunphy and Sang imgp2390 The gang in George's at the Cove, La Jolla imgp2391 The red wine on the table was about $200 a bottle imgp2392 We prepare for our first presentation imgp2393 A massive screen awaits imgp2395 Rusty and a local contact in a Thai restaurant, Del Mar imgp2397 Russell points at his food imgp2399 The next day, there's a fancy Rolls-Royce outside the hotel imgp2400 A funky flower imgp2404 The Marriott Del Mar's swimming pool imgp2406 A line of pool chairs imgp2408 Down the I-5, there's a bunch of Harley boys out for a ride imgp2411 Russell points to something extreme on the menu imgp2415 The Broken Yoke on Garnet Avenue's claim is "we've got huevos" imgp2416 John orders something imgp2417 This is the modest 4-egg omlette. There was a 12-egg on the menu imgp2418 Russell and his pile of food imgp2419 US newspaper boxes imgp2420 Garnet Avenue imgp2424 A teeshirt seller imgp2426 A San Diego fire department truck imgp2427 John roams arouns imgp2430 A kite flyer in Marina Park imgp2435 We check the map out imgp2439 The quaint, but perhaps obviously-named Pier café imgp2442 A fishing boat and water taxi imgp2443 Russell scopes out some paintings imgp2508 A San Diego war memorial imgp2509 Some cyclists raise money for leukaemia research imgp2513 The USS Midway, with the USS Nimitz in the background imgp2544 Some guy in the weapons control room fiddles with some radio knobs imgp2547 A view of San Diego and the Manchester Grand Hyatt imgp2548 Russell has a break imgp2550 imgp2551 imgp2552 imgp2554 imgp2555 imgp2557 imgp2563 imgp2564 imgp2566 imgp2569 imgp2571 imgp2572 imgp2574 imgp2580 imgp2581 imgp2585 imgp2587 imgp2593 imgp2594 imgp2597 imgp2598 imgp2602 imgp2605 imgp2608 imgp2611 imgp2612 imgp2613 imgp2618 imgp2633 imgp2636 imgp2638 imgp2710 imgp2712 imgp2714 imgp2715 imgp2719 imgp2721 imgp2722 imgp2734 imgp2738 imgp2740 imgp2744 imgp2753