Off I go

All,

I am leaving on deployment today. I will be heading to San Diego for a short stop (sorry, Vicki, not getting off the ship…boo) and then we head west on Tuesday. We will not stop in Hawaii this time, which stinks. I love a free trip to see the Thomasons and Menchs. I will be in the Pacific for a few weeks with stops in Palau (on my birthday!!) and Brunei and then in the Gulf early May. Luckily I will not be gone for the entire 7 months that the ship is scheduled to be deployed, since I will be leaving in early August to go to Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey. I can do 4 and a half months standing on my head!! (So can you, Sara, I will be there before you know it!!)

I will send some periodic updates and pictures to this email distro list and feel free to email me (a lot) since I will be away from phones and what not for a long long time and that gets boring! Let me know if I need to add or subtract anyone on the list.

I love you all! See you in the fall! Gotta go to man the rails in the cold rain. I will NOT miss Seattle weather, here I come tropical breezes!
Linda