Day 10 - Arriving in San Diego

Today was Day 10 of my Great National Retirement Tour. I woke up at 5:30 am and wrote in my journal and downloaded photos from my camera til Dan and Colleen woke up. Had trouble getting on the internet, so decided to update security and do a full scan. Someone from New Jersey hacked my Facebook page.

We had breakfast, packed up the car, and hit the road – I-10. Except I had to come back to get the folder with my itinerary, journal, and memory book.


We drove all day again. 415 miles from Tucson to San Diego, most of it on I-8 – flat as a pancake thru the desert and then the last leg thru some 4,000+ foot mountains as we approached San Diego. I have logged over 2,600 miles total so far on the Tour. There was virtually no wind on

what can be a dangerously windy road. On the bright side, we saw some impressive sand dunes at the Arizona/California border and some equally impressive huge rock formations in the Jacumba Mountains.

Carol went to stay with her friend K.C. and I am staying with my mother’s cousin Jean. They live on a hill (as does almost everyone in San Diego), so the camper is parked on a wing and a prayer. Bud made really good dinner while Jean and I looked thru her Skare genealogy box. Tomorrow Jean and I will have more adventures with her genealogy boxes, scrapbooks, and photo albums.

I think I should explain this map. I made up the maps before we left Saint Paul. Then we made a mid-course correction and decided to take the southern route along I-10 and I-8 rather than the northern route along I-40. So the map looks like we drove around in a loop, which we did not. But don't fear, we will get that loop driven before the trip is over.