The president is coming to San Diego today to see his wall!

As you might or might not know, I am the sort of person who hangs around airports with a ridiculous camera waiting for planes to land. And Air Force One is a great plane to take pictures of. The San Diego planespotting Instagram is going to be chock-full of Air Force One pictures that other people have taken.

I have this pesky grown-up job, and I have two specific tasks that I have been assigned today that need to be done at specific times in the office (interviewing a candidate for ONE OF OUR MANY OPEN POSITIONS and making sure that a certain part of our site does not explode between 4pm and 5pm). Thus, I can not stand around just almost barely not trespassing while I wait for the plane to show up. This is especially the case because I know neither when nor where Air Force One will be landing.

My guess is that he is going to land at Miramar MCAS and then drive to the border on the 805, making the traffic on the 805 even worse than it usually is. We have two nice military airfields in San Diego, Miramar and North Island. Miramar is nice if you are going to load up a motorcade and drive on the freeway. North Island is (as the same suggests) on the north tip of Coronado Island (not actually an island), and is much better if you want to catch Pokémon or play golf. Getting a motorcade out of Coronado sounds like a terrible idea from an OPSEC point of view; a helicopter would be better.

We also have an airport conveniently located near the border. Go to Google Maps and search for KSDM and switch to satellite view. San Diego has a lot of airports, each terrible in their own way (mostly due to being in bad locations with respect to weather and/or terrain). The runway at Brown Field is unable to handle a large plane, such as Air Force One, so even though is it right next to The Wall, it won’t work. Also nearby is General Abelardo L. Rodríguez International Airport, which can handle large planes, but is also not a great choice. Are the rules about walls the same as some local zoning about fences, where you need to put the “nice” side pointing toward’s your neighbor’s property?