Point Loma and San Diego Bay

A view of San Diego Bay from Point Loma.

In the far background right is downtown San Diego.

Also seen is North Island Naval Air Station

and left is Ballast Point and a floating dry dock.

Another view of Ballast Point middle left

North Island middle right.

Downtown San Diego

in the background.

View map of San Diego Bay area

Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

at Point Loma. It has 313 acres with

112000 people interred as far back

as the 1800's with at least

23 winners of the Medal of Honor.

 Fort Rosecrans was established in 1852 as

the Point Loma Military reservation.After WWII

the fort was turned over to the Navy

and a submarine support base was established.

It remains today.

Visiting Friends in Southern California

Steve and Vicki Reigle, our friends and friends
to many have recently moved into their new home
at Oceanside Calif.  They traveled the country fulltime
since 2003 in their Montana 5th wheel rv and have
provided many great travel ideas and shared their
travels  on their blog...um...Vicki's blog.

Our thanks and appreciation to you both.
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Steve and Vicki acted as excellent tour guides
on June 28, 2014. We will attempt to show you
glimpses of that day with Steve and Betty,
and Judy and I taking in the sights.

Oceanside CA beach and pier area to

the right not far from Vicki and Steve's home

Another view of the pier seen in above pix

The next group of pictures were taken from

Sunset Cliffs Natural Park on Point Loma

in San Diego

A man and his dog down there

Judy walking along Sunset Cliffs Natural Park

Dennis with Vicki Steve Betty and Steve obscured

See the guy climbing back up to the top?

Click pix to enlarge to see him

A look back where we started our walk.

The erosion is very close to the road.

Not sure what the white is on the rock. Can

you guess?

The woman on the edge

Kinda optical illusion

Can you see the small

drone? Its hovering

right over the group on the diving

rock

Three jump down together

We watched many hit the water. Guess

our ambition to jump with them is gone but still watch.

...more to come

Mission San Luis Rey Oceanside California

Founded on June 13, 1798 the San Luis Rey Mission

was 18 of  21 missions in California. It is a National 

Historical Landmark and is considered the largest mission.

It is located in Oceanside California and the current

church is the third built on the location since its beginning.

Today's Mission San Luis Rey is

A consecrated Roman Catholic church attached to the Franciscan community of San Luis Rey de Francia.

circa 1936 and as it is today

Judy Betty and Steve visiting the Mission

circa 1890

The Pulpit

Offerings

Cemetary adjacent to mission 

Southern California

We arrived in Rialto California 

on June 25, 2014 for a repair stop
to the hydraulic leveling system. We 
were fortunate to have repairs accomplished
in 3 hours and continued our trip
to Escondido CA where we would stay 
to visit Southern California and Friends
Steve and Vicki Riegle.

Judy at San Diego Safari Park

Harbor House at Seaport Village in San Diego

Great Food

Seaport Hyatt

San Diego Seaport Duck

Beautiful Marina near Seaport Village

Judy taking a rest from

shopping at Seaport

Taking a break 

USS Midway, Naval Carrier

Museum in background

Las Vegas Quickly

We arrived at Las Vegas on June 24, 2014 with temps in the 110 range. We did a tour of the Vegas strip and did not attend any shows. We experienced a level-up leak on our 5th wheel trailer and headed out the next day to have repair accomplished in California and escape the heat.

The leaking level-up