It’s not like the planet Vulcan of Star Trek fame: barren, fiery, and covered in volcanic architecture. Instead the Vulcan County on Earth is quiet, green, flat and covered in silos and the occasional abandoned farmhouse or barn. In the midst of all this, is a tiny little town with the same name, recently made [...]
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San Clemente Beach
Ten kilometers south of San Juan Capistrano is San Clemente Beach — an area well known for it’s surfing culture and magazines. If you’re a surfing newb like me you can learn a bit of language just by sitting on the beach and listening to people talk (the rivalry between long boarders and short boarders [...]
The Great Stone Church, San Juan Capistrano
The story of the Great Stone Church in the Mission San Juan Capistrano is a sad one. The church went up quickly: construction began in 1797 and was complete in 1806. It was modeled after Byzantine style cathedrals found in Europe and considered a North American masterpiece. The story begins on the morning of December [...]
Mission San Juan Capistrano
When I stay in one place for an extended amount of time, I like to set eclectic travel quests to make weekends interesting. With SoCal, the quest was to visit as many of the Spanish Missions between San Diego and Santa Barbara as possible (I figured that at some point I’d be in San Francisco, [...]
Hollywood Ramones
On my way back from Long Beach today, I got a tad bit lost and ended up outside the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Santa Monica Blvd. I decided to pop in and do a little treasure hunt for famous graves (to see who I could find). At one point, as I wandered through spongy grass [...]
