The days are flying by. We’ve been here in San Diego for two weeks already. Donna’s been busy working to meet her book deadline while also completing side assignments for articles and doing her usual media interviews. I’ve been playing pickleball four days a week. Two and half hours of pickleball pretty much wipe me out, but my game is really improving again.
Donna has taken time every day to either run or bicycle – or a combination of both. She’s training to run a 10k race in December.
The Mission Bay RV Resort doesn’t seem to be as busy as usual. The first weekend we were here, there were few empty spaces. As usual, many people pulled out on Sunday and Monday. During the week, the park was about 2/3 occupied. Last weekend, we didn’t have the usual influx of campers. A few arrived, but just as many pulled out. With Halloween coming this weekend, maybe the place will fill up again.
On Monday evening, Donna made steelhead trout with dijon sauce. It was cooked perfectly and so tasty. As usual, she serves me meals fit for a king.
Steelhead trout with dijon sauce
Tuesday night she followed up with more seafood. She made shrimp with artichoke, sun dried tomatoes, garlic, asparagus and feta cheese and served it over thin spaghetti. It was a pantry concoction as she is clearing out food. She hasn’t done a major grocery buy since we got here and is using up food before it goes bad. The meal was a departure from her normal method of following a recipe as she just winged it and it was good eats!
Winging a shrimp stir-fry
Tomorrow the routine will be broken. Donna has an early morning flight to Akron, Ohio for her nephew’s wedding. I’ll stay here and hold down the fort. I’ll be living the bachelor life until Monday. I haven’t set foot in an airport since I retired over three years ago.
That will change a week from Saturday. After 1,210 consecutive nights sleeping in my own bed in our RV, I’ll take a flight to Seattle. I expect to be gone for four nights, but I’ll fill in the details of that trip in a later post.
The days have been pleasant with the high temperature reaching the low 70s. We can expect more of the same in the coming week. I’ll head over to the Ocean Beach Recreation Center for today’s dose of pickleball and leave Donna distraction-free while she works.
