One of my favorite places to visit in summer is Pismo Beach. It is a little less glamorous than its popular northern neighbor Carmel By The Sea, and a little less crowded. Though it seems the crowded part is changing….
Always forward, never back. ~ Bl. Junipero Serra’s motto. LINK to all my postings on his missions in California.
I’m not really sure how it started. How I thought I wanted to visit the Colosseum on Good Friday. It felt like the Catholic answer to Mecca for me. Like I had to do it just once in my life,…
The California Mission Trail runs North and South through coastal towns and the inland hills. Alto California’s “El Camino Real” or The Royal Road was the King’s highway in Spanish Colonial times. El Camino Real is now part of California’s Hwy 101…
As I visited this quiet little mission, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, just a few miles from California’s Highway 101 I heard this song in my head. It is title “The Mission” by The Newsboys. I could hear the mission…
The other day a friend stopped me in the parking lot and told me her 9-year-old son asked, “Mom, is there really such a thing as sea glass?” And my friend replied “Why yes there is, because Marylea just posted…