Our first Mission stop was here at Mission Delores in San Francisco. This is really a jewel, very lovely. It's has been beautifully restored and maintained and worth a visit. So much California history is wrapped up in these Missions, it's hard to read it all and try to remember it. They all have lovely gardens and in future blog's I'll post a couple.

Then---sort of from the sublime to the ridiculous, I guess. We visited Alcatraz. It's very sobering. A difficult place to be incarcerated for many reasons. However, as I read about many of the inmates I realized how most of them were extremely hardened criminals and were reaping the benefits of what they sowed.