Name: 36 Hours in San Diego | Best Locals Travel Guide
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You're watching Vagabrothers, and in this video we'll be exploring San Diego, California.

In this video, we're going to show you how to spend an epic weekend in our hometown.

This video is sponsored by the Google Pixel 3 phone, the perfect travel companion to help you plan your trip and capture your adventure.

We're going to be taking you to all of our favorite spots around town, and the places where we can't quite decide between our favorites, you're going to pick through Instagram polls.

We're starting things off up in North County.

We grew up near downtown San Diego, so choosing a hotel, we chose North County in Lucadia.

It's a mellow beach town that's all about surf, yoga, and lifestyle goals.

We're staying at the Surf House Encinitas, a recently remodeled motel with stylish rooms right next to the beach.

Speaking of beaches, it's time to check out the results from our first poll.

It's also an underwater natural park where you can go swimming with Garibaldi, the California state fish.

And option 2 is Sunset Cliffs, tons of epic cliffs, perfect for watching a sunset.

Let's find out which beach we're going to.

Okay, Google, get me directions to Sunset Cliffs Beach.

The best way to get to Sunset Cliffs Natural Park by car is via I-5 South, and will take about 43 minutes in moderate traffic.

Well the votes are in, and you have chosen Sunset Cliffs, and we would have to agree with you.

It is definitely one of our favorite places here in San Diego.

It's natural, it's beautiful, and it's relatively undeveloped.

It's a great place to come chill, to watch a sunset, to have a picnic, but it's also a great place to surf.

There's a reef out here, and there's a kelp bed, which keeps the waves nice and mellow.

We're going to go wax our boards up, hop in the water.

Music That was super fun hopping in the water, and there's nothing that goes as well with San Diego's beaches as a California burrito.

But we can never decide which restaurant has the best burrito, so we're going to let Google do it for us.

Okay, Google, where is San Diego's best burrito?

I found several top-rated burrito places, Lucha Libre Taco Shop.

This is the best Mexican restaurant in San Diego, easily one of the quirkiest.

The owners are huge fans of Lucha Libre, the Mexican wrestling league.

And as you can see, it's a pretty interesting place.

But even within the same burrito establishment, we cannot agree on which burrito to order.

So there's only one way to handle this, and that's the battle of the burrito.

And tonight, prepare yourselves for a battle of burritos.

In corner A, we have the Serving California.

Grilled steak, grilled shrimp, french fries, pico de gallo, jack cheese, avocado slices, and a secret chipotle sauce.

In corner B, we have the Ajo Jalapeno California.

Grilled pineapples, fresh fries, sour cream, jack cheese, pico de gallo, and a pineapple.

And the winner of the battle of the burritos by unanimous consent is the Auto Habanera California.

No burritos or wrestlers were harmed in the filming of this project.

You know me right.  Welcome to Balboa Park.

It was built in 1915 for the Panama-California Exposition and the locals loved all the unique buildings so much that they kept it as a permanent park.

Nowadays it's a perfect spot to spend an afternoon.

There's a ton of museums, a theater, not to mention beautiful botanical gardens.

OK Google, tell me about the history of Balboa Park.

According to House of Pacific Relations, in 1911, ground-breaking ceremonies and construction began with a military mass in a Balboa Park canyon to hold an exposition for the opening of the Panama Canal.

On August 23, 1912, the Sperkles Theater opened with 1915 seats.

Balboa Park is a place that, to be honest, I haven't visited properly in years.

I think when you're from a city, sometimes you ignore the stuff that's right in front of you.

I don't think I've visited since maybe elementary school during a field trip, but coming back here, it's easy to see why it's so important for the city.

Now as an adult, you can see that this is really the birthplace of Spanish Revival architecture, which was pioneered by an architect named Recua in the World Fair in 1915.

He drew on combinations of styles from Mexico and Spain, and we're using the Google Lens to learn more about these different buildings and see its impact, not just on the city, but on the whole state.

It's also really become the center culturally of the whole city, like east, west, north, south of here, all the neighborhoods, North Park, South Park.

They all have a lot of cool things going on.

Let's go.  A trip to San Diego would not be complete without going sailing.

San Diego has one of the best natural harbors in the entire country.

It's a beautiful afternoon, so we're popping on a boat and watching the sunset from the water.

We're actually joined today by our dad, Captain Robbo.

He's from New Zealand, and we're both Kiwi citizens.

For dinner, we're going to eat at one of two of San Diego's best Kiwi restaurants.

Do we eat at Raglan Public House in Ocean Beach or Queenstown Public House in Little Italy?

We'd like to thank you all a lot because you've sent us to one of our favorite dining establishments in San Diego.

We gave you guys the option on the poll, and you chose Queenstown Public House.

It is an incredible restaurant right here in Little Italy, and it's a perfect evening for a night of dining al fresco.

Little Italy is historically an Italian and Portuguese fishing village.

But these days, it's a really trendy place to go out.

You've got a lot of restaurants and bars in walking distance.

This is a great place to start your evening.

It's got Kiwi food that reminds us of growing up with our dad, lots of lamb.

It's in this beautiful craftsman home, very typical of San Diego, and it's a beautiful evening to be outside.

Plus we've got a little fire pit right here.

Beet is very prominent in New Zealand cuisine, as well as a lamb burger with mint jelly and a whole rack of lamb, not to mention some other appetizers.

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