Well, I really misunderstood how lonely travelling can be. I was very happy with my life and my job and really looking forward to a week on the left coast. I might preface this story with the fact that I was happily married Michelle and I had married only three months earlier. One of my first assignments was to attend a convention in San Diego. I was a 22-year old straight out of college and I had just gotten a research job with a consumer products company.