Leaving Avalon

Here she is, the old beauty. She was built in the early nineties and completely refit in 2000. She weighs around 200 tons and is 125 feet from bow to stern. There are 2 tenders (dinghies) on the boat deck(second story) which can be lifted into the water via hydraulic davit(crane). This picture was taken in Chula Vista, CA where we lived during the month of June. It is 7 miles from the border just south of san diego and kind of a boring place to be. I hung out in San Diego on evenings and days off.
Heres the crew at a bar in Newport Beach along with some friends. Penny is the stewardess(blue sweatshirt and scott is the captain
Ready for the 4th of July in uniform along with Chef Alex
Here is me working. Picture was taken while watching the LongBeach/Catalina waterski race. The boats used to pull the skiers are gofast/cigarette boats that pull at 70 miles an hour over the length of a 50 mile roundtrip race across open and usually choppy ocean. We saw a high speed crash just before the finish line. The boat we are in is a 28 airship that can do 70 miles an hour. Quite a fun boat, I still haven't perfected the art of docking and have had some bumpy landings, especially in high seas.

This must have been what shel silverstein was talking about.

Lots of stuff since last time

So a multitude of events have raced past me since the bike trip. We finished with many stories and had the most fun-filled adventurous month life of my life. On the trip, I cot a call from a captain that I used to work with, scott, and was offered a job in California. I moved out to san diego on june 4th and began work on "Last Call" in sandiego. We we there for a month, working hard but also generating some awesome stories. Now we are in Newport Beach, Ca. and enjoying the boat, the beach and the crazyness of the Real OC. Im gonna try to get back into this whole blogging thing, so this is a start. This is the moonrise from the aft deck on the boat.