Leaving San Diego

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I have left San Diego many times in my life so it is eminently fitting that this Second Time Around SAS Voyage departs from my city of birth.

After a scurrying, hectic retreat from Charlottesville, I thoroughly enjoyed 2 ½  full days with UC Berkeley friend Diane touring beautiful new San Diego and La Jolla as well as familiar old childhood locations. What a kick to see my childhood home, elementary school, and the Mission Bay Yacht Club where I sailed a Sabot many-a-hour-and-day.

At this beach my mother sat in the afternoons with the other moms while the young Sabot sailors sailed the length and the breadth of Mission Bay but NEVER out through the channel to the ocean.

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We also shopped for shipboard sundries and necessities, enjoyed exquisite meals, and visited with Kristi, Doug, and nephew Keith Sherwood.  

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By Sunday afternoon January 7 the blue San Diego skies had turned dreary and YES rainy…..as it was time to report to Faculty and Staff Orientation at the hotel. What a pleasure, nevertheless, to meet my colleagues, companions, and friends for the next 4 months. 

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On Monday, with hefty ‘heave hos,' dragging and tugging our luggage and purchases, we boarded the MV Explorer at the pier across from San Diego's Lindberg Field, settled into our assigned cabins, and continued Orientation…. and continued Orientation after leaving San Diego ….. and continued …..

 

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