Tinkerbell's Travels

April 10, 2023

On our last day in Coronado, we hopped on our bicycles and pedaled into the village where we caught the ferry to San Diego.

As a somewhat experienced adult, I now sadly accept the fact that a ferry boat doesn’t have actual fairies on board.

As a child with an active imagination (I still have that active imagination…some would say perhaps “over-active”), I cried rivers of tears when my parents took me on a ferry boat for the first time.

My father feared I was crying because I was seasick. He had already been on the unenviable receiving end of motion-sickness too many times from his sensitive middle child.

No.

I was crying my little heart out because I had been looking forward to seeing real fairies!

I think having a boat with magical fairies would be pretty spectacular. Talk about a great business idea! We’d blow Disneyland away!

We took the seven-minute Ferry ride to the San Diego Convention Center.

We rode a few miles through traffic to Balboa Park.

We pedaled our bicycles through parts of the 1,200-acre park named after Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the first European to spot the Pacific Ocean while exploring Panama.

We found our way to The Spanish Village Art Center at Balboa Park.

Jay didn’t shop.

Jay sat with our bikes.

And Jay talked.

He talked with a fellow cyclist from Beijing.

The cyclist didn’t speak a word of English.

Butt, he listened to Jay for the entire hour while I shopped.

And then we returned home and prepared to leave our Magical Island Home filled with fairies, princes, castles, and princesses…

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