May 08 2010
May-Day
Happy May!
Today is Friday, May 7th. On Wednesday I rode in a rental car with my friend John up to Long Beach where we picked up a Columbia 52 to bring down to San Diego. The boat needed fuel when we got there and we were in thick fog. Oh, and the boat didn’t have radar. We groped our way slowly forward all the way to the Huntington harbor where we went in and got fuel. The fog still hadn’t cleared as we felt our way out of the Huntington breakwater. We never saw the end of the Long Beach breakwater, but eventually figured we must be out in the ocean (we did have GPS, but no chartplotter). By mid-day the fog finally lifted and we came up to full speed, which was close to 9 knots with the current. We made it into San Diego just after sunset and tied up at the Driscoll dock.
Tomorrow, Saturday, there is a Airhead tech rally for older BMW motorcycles in Murietta, so I’m going to ride up in the morning. Should be a fun and interesting day/weekend.
Monday I’m flying down to La Paz, Mexico to pick up a 38 foot Catamaran and deliver it to San Fransisco, California, up the outside, of course. I’m taking my friend Jeff with me and have another friend named Mike in La Paz who will join us there. I anticipate about 2 weeks to get up the coast but we’ll see. I should be home in San Diego by the end of the month.
My family in Alabama has a reunion every year on Memorial day. I was thinking of going on my bicycle this year, but I’ll be offshore instead. Maybe next time.
S-
I didn’t think I’d visit here again, but- damn if I didn’t write some good stuff- there really is a fine adventure to be found in some of your back pages.
Never underestimate the power of good travel to make a mediocre writer shine.
And remember- write down the names of the people for this next voyage.
Because we all like to know the names.
Travel well and with good modesty and good hope.
Love.
K.