Jan Edmund Terrall Book order (chronological)

Balboa Rendezvous is a love story that takes place in San Diego, California at a time of uncertainly, the year 1963. It was a time when the Vietnam War was getting underway for the United States. Young men were being sent off to war while others were already returning to be cared for in an effort to make them whole again, both physically and mentally. During the early sixties, I was a Hospital Corpsman at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, one of the largest military hospitals in the country. I worked in several departments in the hospital including the Burn Ward, Intensives Care Unit/Medical and in the Emergency/Receiving ward on occasion. Although the characters in this story are fictional, the background is real. Like many fictional stories, there are a few bits and pieces of reality woven through it like the treads in a piece of find cloth. Each piece of tread hold the cloth together just as each piece of reality gives life to the story. I will leave it up to you to decide what is real and what is fiction.

Isaac Madison was a young man of twenty who had a deep desire to see the Frontier. He had read about it in different newspapers. In one newspaper he read about the possibility of gold in the Black Hills. Isaac had also read about the unrest between the northern states and the southern states, and that it might become an armed conflict. He had no interest in the problems between the north and south. With war a strong possibility, Isaac decided it would be a good time to leave, and a good time to see the Frontier. He decided that he would keep a journal of his travels and his adventures into the Frontier. Little did Isaac realize what the future had in store for him. The Journal of Isaac Madison is a fictional story. However, it contains a good deal of history of the United States and of the difficulties of traveling alone during the period of time covered by his Journal.