On a Mission

I called this blog "On a Mission" because we have something going with the word "mission" so far on this trip.  Our first hotel was in Mission Valley, the second was on Mission Blvd, the third hotel was called Mission Bay and our last night we are back in Mission Valley.  Interesting eh! These places are 40 -50 kms apart and we didn't realize the connection to "mission" until after the fact.  I will google mission and see if it has any signifiance to this adventure.

We knew coming here that we would look up my cousin and his wife, Chuck and Lori.  We had the pleasure of having dinner in their lovely modern California home.  Lori has a good eye for decorating and excellent taste.  The combination of white leather, fine art and antiques makes their home something special.  We also took in the Super Bowl game on Sunday...from which I am still recovering.  What was unexpected was meeting with Kerina, our niece on Tim's side.  We bumped into her at the San Diego Zoo and took advantage of being in the same city to hang out together.  She even put us up for a night.

Tomorrow we are going to depart this wonderful city full of friendly curious Americans to go to Mexico.  We have shed almost one third of the stuff we took here in an effort to make the load on the motorcycles a bit lighter.  Also, less stuff to organize and look after as we move along.  Kerina is going to take the thermarests back to Canada for us and the hotel staff was happy to have the surplus books, clothes and other stuff.  San Diego has been really good to us.  We were pleasantly surprised to find many guardian angels here in San Diego.  Thanks to the folks at ACE Relocation for helping us get started.