While in Marina Del Rey we were blessed with the opportunity to visit with family and friends. We spent some nice evenings and days with Tricia, Stan and Jack and appreciated their hospitality and opening their home and hearts to us. Dana and Howard and the crew, Sydney, Carl, Molly and Matthew, joined us on the Suzanne2 for a Sunday night feast which they provided. Carla, from San Francisco, who may be in-luuvv, also joined us that evening. We rented a car and drove to Lancaster (not on the ports of call list) to stay with Ken’s sweet mom for a few days. We also visited with Steve, one of Ken’s longtime friends, who we had not seen in almost 20 years.

Thank you all for adding to the many memories and special moments we are gathering on this amazing journey.

Hello San Diego! We will be staying here (actually, we are moored 5 miles south of the city in Chula Vista) for two weeks. Melaina is flying down to spend a week with us. Yea!!!

We have completed the first major leg of our journey, Olympia to San Diego, which covered about 1,500 and took 82 days. “No Hurries No Worries”

For those boaters and dreamers among you, here is a list of the ports, bays, coves and islands we have visited.

In Washington: Gig Harbor; Port Townsend; Port Angles; Neah Bay and Grays Harbor.

In Oregon: Astoria; Garibaldi (Tillamook Bay); Newport; and Coos Bay.

In California: Crescent City; Eureka; Shelter Bay; Fort Brag; Point Arena Cove; Bodega Bay; San Francisco Bay, (Oyster Point, Alameda, and Angel Island); Half Moon Bay; Santa Cruz; Capitola; Monterey; San Simeon; Point San Louis; Coyo Bay; Santa Barbara; Channel Island Harbor; Santa Cruz Island (Smugglers Cove); Anacapa Island (Fish Camp); Marina Del Rey; Catalina Island (Isthmus Cove and Avalon); Oceanside; San Diego (Glorieta Bay and Chula Vista).

Our next stop, Ensenada Mexico, are we having fun or what?

I’ll be adding new pictures soon.

Fair winds and smooth seas to all.