Dotti Olsen:  

Life After spending 35 years with Pac Bell, AT&T, and Lucent, I finally retired 11/30/01. My husband Dick and I have just celebrated 25 years of marriage. It is the second marriage for both of us and between us, we have 3 children and 7 grandchildren. We met while both working at Mountain Bell and living in Tucson, Arizona where I had moved in 1974. In 1997, we moved back to California and settled in beautiful San Diego. In October 2002, we left San Diego for a round the world cruise on our 40 foot sailboat. We'll be coming home from time to time and also joined by friends and family in exotic ports too. WE left with a large flotilla of boats that all headed south to Cabo San Lucas together. Each year, approximately 100 boats participate in this rally. Once everyone reaches Cabo, they go their separate ways. We spent the next 7 months in Baja, mainly in La Paz before heading north to San Carlos on the mainland where we have left our boat for the summer. We're currently spending the summer in Tucson and will also be traveling to California and Idaho to visit family and friends. We will return to our boat in October to continue our cruising lifestyle. We hope to visit Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo and perhaps Alcapulco. Then we need to make a decision whether to stay in Mexico another year or continue on to either the Caribbean or to the South Pacific. No matter what the decision, I'm sure we will...Expand for more