Day 16 - Tuesday, Sept 18 - Catalina Island to Pasadena


Starting mileage:  4530 Starting time: 1:30 pm
Ending mileage: 4500 Ending time: 2:30 pm
Travel mileage:  30 Travel time: 1:00 hours

We spent a relaxing morning wandering around Avalon, bought some postcards and sent them out.

On the way back, our ship was the Catalina Jet with 450 passengers, the largest in the Catalina Express fleet. Many people arrive in the morning who just visit for the day and many of the people leaving have just checked out of their hotels. There were rolling waves on our trip back but I survived without getting seasick.

The drive from Long Beach to Pasadena is only 30 miles but it took us an hour due to the heavy traffic. This is the part I dislike most about California.

The hotel looked familiar when we turned in and it turns out we stayed here 3 years ago on our trip out - just a coincidence.

We enjoyed visiting Surana, Nic and Mia at their new place in East LA and had a relaxing dinner of take-out Thai. Mia is just over 2 years old and had fun matching the animal photos and reading with us. When we were in Idaho Falls, Carmen got a child's "bear" umbrella for Mia that was very cute.


Day 16 map
Catalina Jet catamaran
Mia and Surana

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