1985AUG-RoadTripKingCityStephJohnDave_0012
We're looking for this mission and we're finding nothing but officer's clubs in spanish revival architecture of the military base - they we final see it, the mission. The Mission San Antonio de Padua is on an enclave island in the middle of the base. We drove into the base, accidentally, through live round training grounds over that distant hill with the recent wildland fire burn marks on it on the left side of the photo and bipassed the Fort's entrance checkpoint. We weren't avoiding it - we just never went by it, never saw it. We were just suddenly on the military base. We knew it was there. It was on the map. Came in from behind me from off a dirt road where I cracked by car's oilpan (it would slowly leak for years then crack wide open one day and let's just say that was the end of my car's original factory engine, so take it from me, always have a leaky oilpan checked out). A sign facing the road warned of dire consequences for using the dirt road we just used. We then came upon soldiers in full warpaint doing wargames. We just drove by them. Would come this way to experience this part of the Coast Range many more times, except going through their checkpoint. Ever been through that checkpoint?? Better have your act together because it is very rigorous. They first thoroughly check you are legal to drive, your vehicle is legal to drive, then after that give you friendly directions through the base to your destination. It's just funny to think my first time through the base I bypassed the the checkpoint.
August 1985, California, Central California, Kodachrome 25, Pentax K-1000, blue highways, Road Trip, Pontiac J2000 4-Cylinder Wagon, Santa Lucia Range, Coast Ranges, Jolon, Fort Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation,
1985AUG-RoadTripKingCityStephJohnDave_0012
We're looking for this mission and we're finding nothing but officer's clubs in spanish revival architecture of the military base - they we final see it, the mission. The Mission San Antonio de Padua is on an enclave island in the middle of the base. We drove into the base, accidentally, through live round training grounds over that distant hill with the recent wildland fire burn marks on it on the left side of the photo and bipassed the Fort's entrance checkpoint. We weren't avoiding it - we just never went by it, never saw it. We were just suddenly on the military base. We knew it was there. It was on the map. Came in from behind me from off a dirt road where I cracked by car's oilpan (it would slowly leak for years then crack wide open one day and let's just say that was the end of my car's original factory engine, so take it from me, always have a leaky oilpan checked out). A sign facing the road warned of dire consequences for using the dirt road we just used. We then came upon soldiers in full warpaint doing wargames. We just drove by them. Would come this way to experience this part of the Coast Range many more times, except going through their checkpoint. Ever been through that checkpoint?? Better have your act together because it is very rigorous. They first thoroughly check you are legal to drive, your vehicle is legal to drive, then after that give you friendly directions through the base to your destination. It's just funny to think my first time through the base I bypassed the the checkpoint.
August 1985, California, Central California, Kodachrome 25, Pentax K-1000, blue highways, Road Trip, Pontiac J2000 4-Cylinder Wagon, Santa Lucia Range, Coast Ranges, Jolon, Fort Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation,