Road Trip to Julian California
If you take highway 79 out to the Eastern limits of San Diego County, you will end up in the mountains and find a little town called Julian. Julian was known in the late 1800s for being part of the … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Missions
Mission San Jose, Fremont, CA
The Last One! “We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.” – Junipero Sierra Driving … Continue reading →
Mission Santa Cruz, California
Leaving the Carmel Mission we headed north to Santa Cruz. On arriving to Santa Cruz Denise declared that Santa Cruz was not a city she would want to live in. This struck me as odd because Santa Cruz to me … Continue reading →
Mission Carmel, Carmel, CA
Mission Carmel Our plan was to hit three missions all in on day. The missions are about 30 miles apart from each other and they all are open usually from 10am-5pm. We decides thar that out of the three remaining … Continue reading →
Mission Dolores, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Show Me Your Bay Travelers making their pilgrimage today to the California missions have the great benefit of traveling on highway 101. Occasional glimpses of the varying terrain gives a brief visual clue as to what it was … Continue reading →
San Juan Bautista Mission
The main reason for the missions was to create a path in which the Spanish government could easily resupply their colonists and manage their expansive frontier from the many encroachments of other nations. Knowing this the missions were built not … Continue reading →
Mission San Francisco Solano and the Sonoma Barracks, Sonoma, CA
In 1819 Father Jose Altimira came from Barcelona, Spain to work at the Dolores Mission in San Francisco. He didn’t like the mission in San Francisco because it was not adventerous enough for him and he found the foggy weather … Continue reading →
San Gabriel Mission, San Gabriel, California November 2010
The San Gabriel Mission is the 4th of the missions built in 1771 and is the closest to Los Angeles. Known as the “Pride of th Missions” it is a fully working mission with an active parish. The mission is … Continue reading →
Mission Buena Ventura, California 12/27/10
On our December trip to Solvang, California we took two cars and so on the way back home I snuck out on my own to Ventura, California. Ventura is a beautiful place to visit if you ever get the chance … Continue reading →
Mission Santa Inez, Solvang, California December 2010
I don’t have a daughter but if I did I don’t think I would name her Inez (Agnes in English). The Santa Inez mission is named after Saint Agnes. One of the earliest saints she is known as one of … Continue reading →