San Diego

Cruising around Point Loma towards the Coronado Bridge and down town San Diego has to be one of the most impressive stretches of water from a “OMG I hope I don't piss the Navy off” standpoint. From passing the secret nuclear submarine docks and no less than 4 enormous aircraft carriers, to the Navy seal ribs flying around at 40 knots with machine guns at the front, there is no illusion that you could be swatted like a fly if they wanted to. Happily though Indian Summer was not in their sights and as we neared our destination were happy to watch the sun go down behind the aircraft carriers and watch the flags being taken down.

Mike had decided that first priority on arriving in San Diego was to surprise his David Hasselhoff lookalike friend, Walt who lived in the very exclusive and expensive Marriott marina. After bursting in on him and his girlfriend Cheryl eating dinner, we discovered an added bonus of arriving at this specific time was that one of Mike's friends had left his slip for a few weeks and the marina manager had gone on holiday! This all added up to 10 days of free water, electricity, an end tie – the perfect place for Mike to make Indian Summer look beautiful again. Johnny and Emsy took this opportunity to do a bit of sight seeing and went to Vegas, LA, the Grand Canyon and more while Mike stayed behind and polished the boat until it hurt :)