San Diego

Right after Christmas, John and I went on a camper van road trip to San Diego. I like living this close to San Diego. I would live right in San Diego except we’d have to work an extra 10 years to make up the difference in the cost of housing, so yeah, we’ll just drive to San Diego.

You’ll just have to take my word for it that it’s me under all the face coverings.

We mostly just walked around outside, and did some biking too.

We enjoyed looking at things that were not the desert.

We met Mark and his kids for an hour-long walk on the beach. When John and I arrived, the first person I spotted out of our group was Jonathan, who was just standing alone on the beach in his black hooded sweatshirt and black mask. I would have walked right past him if I hadn’t noticed him looking at me. Wait…do I know those eyes?

That’s Mark in the background, missing out on the picture. After all, I had said, “Let’s meet for a walk”, not “Let’s meet for a photo shoot.”

Initially Mark didn’t think the kids would be interested in meeting us for a walk, telling me they don’t like going for walks. Turns out they were happy to see John and I. 😉

The beach was not crowded.

It was hard to keep 6 feet of distance because you couldn’t hear each other talk over the noise of the surf. But we were masked, and there was a good stiff breeze on the beach, so we were fine.

Even the kids were masked. Thank you for taking good care of your old aunt and uncle!

Alex got one of his shoes wet, so instead of taking them both off, he continued to wear the dry one. Very logical boy.

Later, John and I went to a different beach and walked out on a pier.

These next pictures are from the University of San Diego, where we had a nice late-afternoon walk.

It was a great trip and I was very happy to see my niece and nephews. I wish my other nieces were within driving distance!

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