The World According To PI

  This is not my first trip to San Diego. I have been her a few times over the years.  Family vacation with my kids , a girl’s trip to celebrate turning forty,  and to visit my daughter who was living in Oceanside. But as much as travel is often about making memories with the people you’re closest to, there are times when I long for a much different experience. One that takes me out of my comfort zone and throws me into unfamiliar territory. The kind that truly displaces me. Because when I am in a total state of displacement, I am more in tune to wonder, discovery, awe, and discomfort. And if I can keep an open mind, I know there is the likelihood that I will discover things about myself, about others and about the world I would have not learned otherwise. I am determined for this trip to be just that and more. I am now 59 years old and counting. I braved through parenthood.  I got through grad school while working fulltime.   I put two kids through college.  I have survived cancer.  A