Catalina

Dave at Descanso Beach

On the Undersea Tour

After CDM, Dave and I hopped on the CatJet Express and jaunted across the Pacific Ocean to visit Catalina Island for a few days. What a cool place - primarily developed by Jim Wrigley and the past home of the Chicago Cubs spring training, it is an eclectic little oasis with everything from palm trees to buffalo. So what if the hotel we thought would be lovely turned out to be iffy...we still had a marvelous time. Some highlights for you travel lovers: inland island tour, visiting "The Airport in the Sky" where celebs like Tom Cruise fly their private planes into, a submarine tour where we say our first Garibaldi fish up close and personal, movie night in a 1930s theater, and crystal clear water like you've never seen.

I have to give major props to my sister, Ellen, who graciously dropped us at the port and picked us up - that's love, man.