From Torremolinos, Riddell and her daughters continued to “bop around Europe,” living in Munich, Ger

Since leaving the La Jolla of her youth, Riddell (nee Fulton) has lived in nine countries and worked as a foreign war correspondent, travel writer and social director aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean.
Her parents left Japan after losing their home and business in the Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, eventually settling in La Jolla, where Riddell went on to graduate with the La Jolla High School Class of 1938.
La Jolla model Rhoda Riddell (nee Fulton, center) wrote of this March 5, 1938 photo at La Jolla Cove: "We were tired, cold and the lobsters very dead." Pictured with her are Dorothy Rowland and Marjorie Healy.
"She was a fabulous cook," Riddell said of her Norwegian mother. "But when the war came my mom sold the restaurant because she was convinced the Japanese were going to bomb La Jolla — and I think they planned to."
"A half hour later a truck full of women and children pulled bc tour companies up and said, 'Grab what you can.' "We were 11 women and children and an awful lot of booze, so that's what they grabbed," Riddell said. "They were officer's wives."
One of the couple's daughters, Massachusetts resident Laurie Geary, said Riddell wasn't content being a military wife, and longed to travel the world herself. The couple divorced when Geary was a third-grader at La Jolla Elementary School.
Riddell took her children to live in Mexico City, though Geary contracted the measles and they had to return. Soon after, Riddell purchased bc tour companies tickets to Innsbruck, Austria, where she planned to move the family. However, working as a real estate leasing bc tour companies agent, Riddell jumped at the chance to buy a home on Nautilus Street bc tour companies in WindanSea, bc tour companies a half block from the beach, and sold the tickets. "You can see she kept trying bc tour companies to go," Geary said.
After another, short-lived marriage, Riddell and a friend succumbed to the lure of a lavish, albeit affordable, lifestyle on the southern coast of Spain, in the town of Torremolinos, on the Mediterranean Sea.
"It was horrible!" Geary recalled of her six-month stay. "I was 14, went to La Jolla High, had a surfer boyfriend (and) didn't speak a word of Spanish. My mother was an atheist, so I had never even been to church. I was tall and blonde, and all the girls were short and dark, ready to be nuns."
Also looking back with laughter, Riddell countered, "It was the only school available to them. I knew that when I went there I couldn't say I was divorced, so I just said their father was dead and the sisters took them in.
From Torremolinos, Riddell and her daughters continued to "bop around Europe," living in Munich, Germany, Turkey, Greece and Madrid, bc tour companies where Geary graduated from high school at Torrejón Air Base, and where her mother was a correspondent for the Armed Forces Radio Service (with her own morning show).
In one of the more than 400 news articles and travelogues Riddell published (many for Copley Press), Riddell wrote of the sounds that seduce visitors in Madrid, from the clop of horse hooves during morning trash collection to the knife grinder and maids singing as they hang wash over balconies.
"My daughter took me back a few weeks ago and drove me through and I wouldn't have recognized it all those big buildings," she said with candor, though no trace of rancor. "We had lunch overlooking where the Green Dragon was — Eddie V's or something. It makes you nostalgic, but that La Jolla no longer exists anymore. You know, you can't go home."
"Being at my reunion was bittersweet, because I could see what I missed. There were a lot of successful people and really happy people — though I've had a good life," she said. "I think I probably bc tour companies romanticized it a bit, too, since I was only 14 when (I left). I think I got frozen in time."
After returning to the United States from Europe in the mid-'60s, her mother, Rhoda Riddell, became one of the first members of the National Organization for Women, and protested outside a bar in New York that refused to permit unescorted women.
While employed as a La Jolla leasing agent, Riddell helped a Jewish bc tour companies doctor and his family thwart La Jolla's then-binding exclusionary housing covenants (primarily designed to keep Jewish and other minority families out of La Jolla).
"My mother followed her dream," Geary said. "She (taught me) how to take risks that led to personal growth and an exciting and fulfilling life. I have learned that it's possible to create the life you want."
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