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There are Ants in My Pants.... and Everywhere Else

Tuesday, May 31st – Tijuana River Regional Park, San Diego, California - Day 110 

We woke up to ants all over the floor of our trailer. They were tiny little ants and they were moving in vey orderly lines all over the trailer floor. We cleaned the whole trailer of ants as thoroughly as we could. Gen prepared a concoction to kill them. The kids went off to play with their friends on the play structure. 

 Our first stop was the Cabrillo National Monument, next to downtown San Diego. The Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, in 1542, was the first European to set foot on the west coast of the USA and establish a colony. The visitor centre explored the impact on Indigenous populations and the extent of the Spanish efforts to explore the continent. The monument was on a cliff looking over downtown San Diego near the place where he first arrived. 


 We hiked up to the lighthouse to admire the views. You could walk up almost to the top of the tower and the rooms were as they were when the lighthouse keeper still lived there. On our way out, we saw an aircraft carrier coming into port. It may have been smaller than the full-sized carrier but it still had lots of jets on its deck. Very impressive. 


 The next spot was La Jolla’s children’s beach. An artificial breakwater was donated to the city by Ellen Browning Scripps to be used as a children’s beach. The seals loved the area for mating and defecating. There were two dozen seals sunning themselves on one side of the beach while we played around on the other side. There has been unsuccessful legal action to get the seals removed and signs advised us to share the beach and not to swim. There were plenty of people swimming. Large waves would break against rocks and water would surge into the cove. We played on the beach and I had a very nice lay down on the blanket. 


 We wanted a nice meal in San Diego. Gen had scoped out this beachside restaurant, Sea180, on Imperial Beach the night before. There was a date night special and reasonable children’s meal. We drove back to the beach from the day before. After a nice beach side sunset, we had a wonderful meal. Another late night back to the trailer but we had a good time. When we arrived, we saw a few remaining ants, but we thought we had been successful.

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