January 13th
– January 19th 2014
Our trip to Sand Diego is described below. The end of
the trip is described in this post. Another great week in
Arizona/California. We are going to Alaska – J. starts March 21st
2014. It is going to be interesting driving adventure. Otherwise …
enjoying our time in nice and warm Arizona.
Friday, January 17th
2014
Saturday, January
18th 2014
We were up relatively early. Pack up our stuff, load the
car, get the coffee, check out from the motel. Another pretty morning
in California. We were heading a bit out of the way to visit Mission
Basilica San Diego de Alcala, if I remember correctly the first
mission in California. We had time before it opened so we drove
through neighborhoods. We intended to drive via Hillcrest (apparently
busy and pretty area) and according to the map we did, but we did not
see anything particularly interesting. Oh well …. Mission – as we
learned in a tiny museum the building was pretty much destroyed and
it had to be rebuilt. It was somewhat interesting and pretty, but …
hard to say. We got on freeway and were heading north to the area of
Carlsbad and Ocenside. We exited the freeway earlier and followed the
coast – smaller communities – just fine. Two nice towns. Stores.
Ocean. Beaches. Via scenic detour to Palm Springs. California is
really experiencing serious drought. Too much driving … it was
scenic and somewhat interesting but it was just going and going and
going. Palm Springs area, green oasis in the desert. Incredibly long
cluster of several towns. As much as California is dry those towns
had green grass, trees and incredible landscaping – are they not
part of the state? Cross all the towns and head up to Palm Spring
Aerial Tramway. 4:30 up – interesting ride, 2500 to 8500 feet
(roughly), great views, pretty cold and very different up there. 5:30
down and to the motel. Really tire.
On Saturday – just head home to Phoenix. Groceries. J.
had to get ready for work. And all the monkey business. Life goes on.
