Friday 13th October - day 24. San Diego - surfing at Tourmaline Beach. Sunset at Torrey Pines Beach. Up at 6.30 to check out of our camp site, ready to surf at Tourmaline Beach (just round the corner from Chris’s flat) by 7. We arrived at what seemed an early hour, to find the car park full and some kern surfers already packing up to leave. The beach was sandy with loads of space and enough surf to please everyone. Chris had produced three surf boards and ...

Wednesday 11th October. Day 22. San Diego! Our stay with Chris in his new part-time home in San Diego started on a high with an early start at the Balboa Park for the 6.29am Wednesday meeting of the November project. This project was started by two ex-rowers who had moved from being active sporting undergraduates to desk bound workers. They were getting unfit and decided that for the month of November, three years ago, they would meet before work twice a week...