San Diego 29th September 2011

We arrived into San Diego - communications at last and able to call Jimmy and catch up with internet. Unfortunately it was the last stop for Kathy as she disembarked to fly back to San Francisco. Just Charlotte and I to continue into the Pacific, with plans for Jimmy to meet us in Tahiti hopefully on 16th October. We talked about us flying back to join Jimmy but he is adamant that we should stay on the boat and he will soon join us - Brooklyn versus South Pacific......

We rented a car with Kathy. First stop, we met up with Little Charlotte that we had met in Buenos Aires earlier in the year, with Trevor, Sarah and new baby Henry


Next stop Walmart!! One of the upcoming stops will be a very small isolated island, Fanning Island, so we stocked up with school supplies to take to the local primary school that have no electric and have school in huts. We got strange looks as we boarded the ship with all these Walmart bags!!!

It was sad to say goodbye to Kathy, who had been a good pillar of support over the last few days (despite the weather not cooperating!)

(to be continued)