Wherryonline North America 2017
A Travel Blog
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
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
Reversing the norm For a number of reasons we reversed the norm this day, Saturday, and had a quiet morning followed by an active afternoon. Len and I started by lunching at a chain restaurant called Rubio’s, which describes itself as “coastal inspired fresh Mexican food”. We both had salad, mine a very tasty chicken … Read more
Anaheim is not just Disneyland Muzeo On Day 4 we visited a new place to us – but not to Carolyn – the Muzeo Museum and Cultural Centre in Anaheim (which is most famous as the home of the original Disneyland). Carolyn had discovered the Muzeo when it had a very popular exhibition recently, Dressing … Read more