A Travel Blog
A morning in Old Towne Orange – and more Orange County is, as I’ve said before, an interesting place – full of cities with their own histories. One of these is Orange and, as I mentioned earlier in this blog, I do love to visit Old Towne Orange Historic District. We didn’t take as many photos … Read more
USS Midway Museum Our last activity in San Diego for this trip was to do something new to us, visiting the USS Midway Museum. As it wasn’t opened as a museum until 2004, it wasn’t a tourist offering when we lived in Southern California in the early 1990s. The USS Midway was an aircraft carrier of the … Read more
OK folks, I know we are starting to run way behind in the blog. This is partly due being on the road – well, to and in San Diego – for three days, and partly because our San Diego hotel’s wireless was woeful. I didn’t finish the last post until 1.30am because the connection kept … Read more
Mission to see a mission Two things we love to do when we visit SoCal, besides see friends of course, is – no, not go to Disneyland, but to go to Joshua Tree National Park and Mission San Juan Capistrano. Given it’s mid-summer we are giving the desert-located Joshua Tree a miss this trip, but … Read more
We made no critical plans for today, as Carolyn had a tradesman coming to replace a major part of her ailing air conditioning system. Carolyn did encourage us to stick with our tentative plan of going to Old Towne Orange, but we decided to wait and play it by ear. Old Towne Orange Historic District … Read more