Travel Tales & Coffee Trails

The night before, I stood on Manhattan Beach hoping the weather would cancel my trip so I wouldn't have to cancel it myself. I'd never ridden a jet ski. I'd never done anything like this alone. But the next morning, I boarded a SeaDoo anyway, and thirty miles later, found myself surrounded by hundreds of wild dolphins in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Here's what a full day jet skiing to Catalina Island, solo and terrified, actually looks like.