We just have two more campsites after this! Two more days until we are home.
We decided to continue taking the 101 south, so we could drive over the Golden Gate Bridge.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has been to San Francisco, it was rather foggy.
Our campground tonight is just outside San Juan Bautista.
(If you zoom in really, really close you can see a train of horses underneath the sign.)
Spanish and Mexican explorers arrived in the San Juan Valley in the 1700s.
This adobe building was built in 1799.
There are 128 adobe buildings in town, including the San Juan Bautista Mission.
I guess San Juan Bautista was a pretty quiet town, because this jail was made for one.
Or maybe it was made for someone in town everyone knew was a problem.
The town San Juan Bautista was named after the mission, established in 1797.
It was the 15th California mission constructed along El Camino Real.
The mission sits in a central plaza surrounded by pretty wooden buildings.
This is a new mission for all of us, and it wasn't even our mission to see missions.
Oh man, what a darling town. We have been to many missions but not that one. Add it to the list.
ReplyDeleteHow was driving through the heart of SF? Love the bridge photo. So SF.
What a great last few days you are having.
This town was such a trip, you have to visit to understand. It is kind of a lost place.
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