Pacific Ocean evening, La Jolla Strand Park

It was a lovely vacation.

Photo: © All rights reserved, Paul Hernandez,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_a_hernandez/, used with permission.

Brief hiatus

Just a short note that I'll be taking a couple of weeks off for vacation--rather than putting the blog on autopilot with no guarantee that I could keep abreast of comment moderation, I thought I'd interrupt our normal maritime topics with a personal note to let y'all know what's up. (I'm really excited--this is my first real vacation in years! I'll be enjoying some serious offline time.)