SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA

Well, our daughter Carol finally finished college.  She graduated from UCSD on June 12th.  Her sister Kristine flew in from Texas for the celebration.  That called for a party so family and friends gathered at her place in Ocean Beach for the event.  We had a pleasant 3 weeks in San Diego ending with a Father's Day trip to the fair.  We left SD on Tuesday, June 21st and are heading to Great Falls, Montana for the rendezvous with our guests for our 60 day Calgary/Alaska trip. 

Carol Ann Schwenke
BS Environmental Sciences &
minor in urban planning

Left to right
Haven, Michael, Jovin, Carol, Betty, Me, Kristine.

Carols Family

Betty & Carol

Carol & Jovin

Kristine & Carol

OUR FAMILY

Jovin, Haven and a couple of buddies

Me doing a San Diego seafood dump

The finished product

The Grandkids and Carol enjoying rides at the San Diego County fair

SUNSET AT OB SAN DIEGO

INDIAN CLIFFS RANCH & COCHISE STRONGHOLD

These are two stops we made on our way to SanDiego.  The ranch and steak house are off the main road about 20 miles east of El Paso.  We had been told about it by another RVer and this was our second time there.  We were able to camp overnight in their parking lot, tour the movie sets, have a great dinner and enjoy a nice sunset in the desert.  Our next stop was in eastern Arizona and, as the photo caption says, we thought we would see more than a bunch of rocks.  But, that was where Cochise held off the calvary for many moons.  We had another overnight in Yuma and arrived in SD on June 1st.



ENTRANCE TO CATTLEMEN'S RESTAURANT AT INDIAN CLIFFS RANCH

BRONZE SCULPTURE
"BRONCO BUSTER"
by FRANK REMINGTON

A SETTLERS ADOBE HOUSE

INTERIOR

MORE PERMANENT STONE HOUSE

These pictures are from the movie set "Courage under fire" with Denzel Washington.

 

WHAT IS A RANCH WITHOUT COWS

PART OF A MOVIE SET

LOOK CLOSE, A RATTLESNAKE DEN FULL OF RATTLESNAKES

MISSION & VICTORIA TEXAS

Greetings to all from south Texas.  We decided to check out the area where lots of northerners spend their winter months.  This was in May when it was very quiet.  We were able to get close to the pool and we needed that daily "cooling off" since it was so HOT.   After Mission , which is in the Rio Grande valley and very close to the Mexican border, we visited our wagonmasters on our up coming Alaska trip at their home in Victoria.  Victoria is south of Houston and east of Corpus Christi and the area played a very important part in Texas' fight for independence from Mexico.  It was not just the Alamo!!  At the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad (near Victoria) over 300 soldiers killed by order of Santa Ana after they surrendered.  It was shortly after that battle that Santa Ana was captured.  Another interesting fact is that the Mexican General Zaragoza was born in Goliad.  He played an important role in Mexico's fight for independence from France - that is the origin of Cinco de Mayo. 
Enough history - we left south Texas at the end of May and arrived in San Diego on June 1st.  Since Texas is so big, it took days to get out of the state.  On the way, we stopped overnight in Fort Stockton.  There is a post Civil War calvary fort there but we didn't visit since it was so hot -  with daytime temperatures over 100 degrees.  So you get a metal sculpture that sits alongside Route I-10. 

POOL SIDE IN MISSION

LADY OF LORETO CHAPEL

FRED & MARIE BERGER
WAGONMASTERS

THE BARACKS

THE PRESIDIO LA BAHIA AT GOLIAD

OLD COURTHOUSE
VICTORIA TEXAS

THE CALVARY OF FORT STOCKTON