A California Journey: Re-entry ...

August 25-26, 2014

Starting Location Oakland, CA

Final Location San Diego, CA … Home!

Final Trip Miles 1695

Goldilocks and I must be gettin’ old. It’s a good “OLD” for us, thank the Good Lord! It is just that we are definitely not into a one-day 553-mile drive from the Bay Area to San Diego! It took us two days.

It might have been a boring ride since we know every inch of this stretch of U.S. 101 and California Highway 1…but it wasn’t. We traveled this road many times while our daughter Sue was attending UC Santa Cruz. The weather below San Jose turned gorgeous and stayed that way all the way to San Diego. We wended our way south through vineyards, coastal mountains, awesome seashores and immense produce farms. I dare say we are again elated that we’ve made California our home for the last half-century!

We stopped over in Oxnard ... had a good visit at breakfast with Harry Norton, a true brother if not by blood ... ex-Air Force buddy, long-term Navy civil servant, usher at our wedding ...

Bob and Harry at Henri's Café in Oxnard ...

Our California Journey was not over yet, y’all! We eased down Highway 1 along a glorious Southern California coast … weather was gorgeous, waves were huge from a tropical storm off Mexico. Around Malibu, the devoted surfer dudes and dudettes were out by the hundreds! At Manhattan Beach, we joined our daughter Susan for lunch at The Kettle, one of our favorite eateries of all time! Sue’s an occupational therapist (OT) in L.A. who does a lot of work with OT students and veterans suffering from PTSD. She is excited about her life … an interesting and engaging person .

We are rollin’ HOME now! We are glad that y’all were part of our adventure! Stay well and take pleasure in little things … life is GOOD!