THE BEANS: LIFE IS AN ODYSSEY ONLY FOR REAL HEROES

Capitán Trueno and his Superheroes friends

Yesterday, The Beans visited the Comic-Con and enjoyed a lot with all the merchandising and the performances that they could watch there. They were the soul of the event and today they appear in all the local and national press. It was a fantastic experience that they recommend to everyone and they want to thank the organization to invite them to this unforgettable event that is a must for comic and entertainment fans.

The Beans are still in San Diego. Today, they have decided to visit the city by Hop-on, Hop-off Trolley Tour, an exciting way to visit the most interesting places in the quickest way. 

After this visit, the family has returned to the hotel where they have been revising some English grammar with the Present Passive before going to the airport to take another plane to Albuquerque in New Mexico where they're going to drive across Route 40 to arrive to Navajo lands.

More information: Passive Voice (Present Simple)

The family is enjoying their last moments in this beautiful city before starting their last trip across American lands.

Explore some of the top highlights of San Diego with this one or two-day pass for the city’s Hop-on, Hop-off Trolley Tour.

Choose your own adventure as you get on and off the trolley at any of the 10 included stops, covering famous sights including the Gaslamp Quarter, the San Diego Zoo, USS Midway and the Cruise Ship Terminal, Little Italy, and many more. This San Diego trolley tour also features live commentary from on-board guide during your ride.

-Ride the San Diego Trolley.
-Hop on and off at any of the 10 stops as often as you like.
-Stops are conveniently located close to all popular attractions, shops and restaurants.
-Create your own itinerary to see the most popular sights of San Diego.

The Beans ready to enjoy the Trolley Tour

Get around the easy way with this trolley tour of San Diego, enjoying convenient access to 10 of the city’s top tourist sights with this one- or two-day pass. This vintage transport method, offering comprehensive access to some of San Diego’s best attractions, is a convenient way to get around without breaking the bank. 

Climb aboard the trolley at any of its 10 convenient stopping points any time during its normal operating hours. Trolleys come to each stop every 30 minutes. One of the many sights you can visit during the course of your ride is Old Town State Historic Park, often called the Jamestown of the Pacific, where you can discover the history of California’s founding amidst the area’s range of 19th-century buildings. There are also stops along the way for the world-famous San Diego Zoo, which houses a virtual Noah’s Ark of wildlife, the USS Midway and the historic Gaslamp Quarter. It's the perfect way to get around during your next visit to San Diego.

More information: San Diego

The Hop-on, Hop-off Trolley Tour includes stops at the following locations: 

-Old Town State Park.
-Cruise Ship Terminal/USS Midway.
-Seaport Village.
-Marriott Marina/Convention Center.
-Horton Plaza.
-Gaslamp Quarter.
-Hilton Bayfront.
-Coronado/Mc P's Irish Pub and Grill.
-Balboa Park (El Prado)/San Diego Zoo.
-Little Italy.

I don't believe in superheroes. I think heroes are all those people who work very hard everyday to live better and who defend their beliefs strongly and fight for reaching them. These are the real heroes.

Ana Bean

MIRAMAR, SAN DIEGO, 1986: THE HEAVEN IN YOUR EYES

Top Gun cover, 1986

The Beans have just arrived this morning to San Diego where they're going to participate in the Comic Con. Before going to this event, the family has wanted to review some English grammar. They have been talking about some clues for the Present Perfect like Just, Already and Yet and about how to use Past Simple or Present Perfect.

More information: Already-Just-Yet

After doing some exercises counting the time to be prepared for the exam, the family has been playing to Scattergories and Paqui Bean has won again and again. 

The Beans have taken profit of their time writing some postcards to MJ and they have been talking about fair tales and their main characters before The Grandma had explained a private story with an old friend, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, who was one of the best F14 pilots in Miramar, San Diego in the last decade of the 80's. She remembers him like a handsome man with the reflex of the heaven in his eyes. He took her breath away.

More information: Present Perfect vs. Past Simple

Meanwhile The Beans have visited the most important places of San Diego included the Sea World where they have seen another old friend, Ulisses, an orca which was living in Barcelona some years ago and was moved to San Diego to live in better conditions, The Grandma has visited her old friend Maverick, who is a retired pilot now, and they have been remembering old memories in front of the Pacific.

The Grandma & Maverick together again in 2018

SeaWorld San Diego is an animal theme park, oceanarium, outside aquarium, and marine mammal park, located in San Diego, California inside the city's Mission Bay Park. The park is owned by the City of San Diego and operated by SeaWorld Entertainment.

SeaWorld San Diego is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Adjacent to the property is the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute, which conducts research on marine biology and provides education and outreach on marine issues to the general public, including information in park exhibits.

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San Diego is a major city in California. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 190 km south of Los Angeles and immediately adjacent to the border with Mexico.

San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. The city is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.

Tania Bean and Ulisses in the SeaWorld San Diego

San Diego has been called the birthplace of California. Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, it was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. 

In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. California became part of the United States in 1848 following the Mexican–American War and was admitted to the union as a state in 1850.

More information: SeaWorld San Diego

The city is the seat of San Diego County and is the economic center of the region as well as the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. San Diego's main economic engines are military and defense-related activities, tourism, international trade, and manufacturing. The presence of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center, has helped make the area a center of research in biotechnology.

Finally, this evening, The Beans have gone to the Comic-Con as special guests stars and they have enjoyed with the wonderful and fantastic world of illustrations.

The Beans arriving to the San Diego Comic-Con

San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is commonly known simply as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or SDCC.

Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Anaheim, and the Alternative Press Expo (APE), held in San Francisco. Since 1974, Comic-Con has bestowed its annual Inkpot Award on guests and persons of interest in the popular arts industries, as well as on members of Comic-Con's board of directors and the Convention committee. It is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards.

More information: San Diego Comic-Con

Beans, you are the top 1 percent of all English students. The elite. The best of the best. We’ll make you better… 

You might say we’ll make you the best of the best of the best. Those of you who can’t cut it to graduation will still be the best of the best. But you will simply be the rest of the best of the best, not the best of the best of the best, like the best of you will be.

I don’t imagine you have any questions, so I won’t even ask. 
Good luck, Beans. I’ll see you in the hotel. Class dismissed.

CDR Mike Viper Metcalf, Top Gun