I spent very little time in San Diego- when the Topeka came out of the yard in Connecticut, I took it around through the Panama Canal, and spent a few months at Point Loma before I got out. This was 1991. Nice place, but I was a homesick Long Island native who couldn't wait to get back east.
The Canal Zone is a trip, I traveled the length of it in 1982, on my way to Jungle Training at Fort Sherman, Panama. That travel included a rickety old train and a boat ride aboard landing craft... later in training, we flew in choppers over the rainforest and the coastal bluffs & reefs, pretty spectacular scenery for a youngster off the West Coast.
I copy the homesickness, and parts of Long Island are beautiful... funny how I don't really miss Kalifornia except for the sailing, the rest of it can take a hike: traffic, smog, crime, foul city attitudes, etc. I'm gonna pull 'stealth trips' back to Dago in due time, using my paid vacations to cram as much sailing in as possible, otherwise I love living here in the wilds of southeastern Arizona.
Fresh air, high desert & mountain scenery, zero traffic & practically no crime, since the would-be perps know that even Grandma is strapped, LOL. Not only strapped, but ready to blow their fool heads off with her .44, just by way of entertainment. Oh, yeah, we have heller offroading & world-class rock climbing mere minutes away... once my foot heals I wanna do a long moderate route out at the Stronghold, that place is awesome!!!
Well, gotta go get ready for work, one more day and this week is done, and Friday is my easy day... I'll spend it with Master Mechanic MuuMuu the Barn Kitty, have to snap a few pics later, LOL. I foresee some serious cruising in a Yamaha electric cart as well, my cart is pretty quick for an electric number, I keep it charged up to the max so it's ready to roll at any time. Nice scenery on the course too, as a workplace it doesn't suck, LOL. CHEERS!!!
