California: Sun, surf and slurping ice cream on a father-and-son holiday in San Diego

By Simon Milham Cool customer: Frank Milham (second left) and friends enjoy some Californian health foodIt does not start well. Three days before we fly, an earthquake - 7.2 on the Richter scale - strikes Baja California, 180 miles away over the Mexican border. We decide not to tell Mrs M. She is already worried that her two boys are venturing to San Diego on their own. Tumbling masonry and