April 24, 2012

After another breakfast "on the house" we decided to go to the beach. Although not a hot day by any means there were a few discoveries.

We went to the western front of Camp Pendleton to the location known as Delmar Beach. There can be found the training grounds of the Marines 1st Expeditionary Force. Although training can become intense, today was not the case. As you can see, the military owns some of the best training sites.

After leaving Maine just 4 weeks ago, we accomplished a goal to get to the west coast. The water was a little cold but we stood up to the task.

One of the discoveries was that if you look in the opposite direction of the above training site, there were nice places on the beach that, if I had known in advance, we might have been staying there. They have a nice fire pit in front for evening activities.

Tonight Alice had a good time with a couple of her "greatest generation" of students. We met them for dinner in Oceanside and enjoyed a teacher, kindergarten student conversation. Another great day west of the Continental divide.