{"id":1638,"date":"2016-04-20T02:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T02:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/?page_id=1638"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:28:57","slug":"boondocking-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/can-you-spell-rv\/death-valley-southern-california\/boondocking-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Boondocking in the desert & San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

After leaving Anza-Borrego we wanted to “get away from the crowds” for a few days. \u00a0We had allocated some time for “down time” before going to San Diego to see the sights. \u00a0 So we went to the South Carrizo Creek camping area – a “public lands” site. \u00a0The GPS location is: \u00a032.848520, -116.189462 \u00a0 and the first picture below is a Google Satellite view of the location. \u00a0We were truly and wonderfully alone in the desert! \u00a0We did see the Border Patrol come through one day, and a couple dirt bike riders came through another day, but we were essentially alone together in the desert for three wonderful days!!! \u00a0(I have marked our trailer with a red arrow in some of the pictures below.)<\/p>\n

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San Diego<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our first stop in San Diego was a visit to the USS Midway — a retired Navy Aircraft Carrier that served from a week after the end of World War II until 1992. \u00a0Until 1955 it was the largest ship in the world and typically carried a complement of about 4800 seamen and airmen. \u00a0She played a crucial role throughout\u00a0the Vietnam War and later in Desert Storm.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_7546<\/a> \"DSC_7554<\/a>The view from her flight deck was amazing–<\/p>\n

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Across the bay was the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the\u00a0USS Carl-Vinson (the ship from which\u00a0Osama bin Laden was buried in North Arabian sea.)<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, Judith just couldn’t follow Navy protocols as she attempted to join at the Admiral’s conference table and ended up in the “brig” —<\/p>\n

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We went to the Silver Strand State Park on Coronado Island —<\/p>\n

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Kids were playing, and a nice couple from Kokomo, Indiana, took our picture:<\/p>\n

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Of course, no visit to San Diego is complete without a visit to the San Diego Zoo —<\/p>\n

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After leaving Anza-Borrego we wanted to “get away from the crowds” for a few days. \u00a0We had allocated some time for “down time” before going to San Diego to see the sights. \u00a0 So we went to the South Carrizo Creek camping area – a “public lands” site. \u00a0The GPS location is: \u00a032.848520, -116.189462 \u00a0 … Continue reading Boondocking in the desert & San Diego<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1575,"menu_order":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1638","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1638\/revisions\/2602"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourpcgeek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}