With Friday bring our last full day on the road, we made the most of it. We took a day trip out to San Pedro to see the battleship USS IOWA. This must be the trip of BIG things 'cause Thursday it was the massive shuttle Endeavor and Friday its the even larger USS IOWA. This massive ship, created in World War II is still to this day part of the ready reserve fleet. In other words, though it is floating museum today, it could be called back to active duty tomorrow. At over 800 feet in length, and able to feed and house over 1,400 crew, she is truly massive.
The USS IOWA is known as the ship of presidents. This is because the ship, when originally built, had a bathtub installed in the Captains quarters so that if, and eventually when FDR traveled during World War II, he would be comfortable on board. It was also the mode of transportation on occasion for Ronald Regan and George HW Bush.
After we got done seeing the USS IOWA, we continued up the coast just a few miles to the point Vincente Light house. We came up here mostly, cause we heard a large whale pod of 27 had been spotted up there the other day. Though there were no whales to be seen today, we did see a group of dolphins!
For dinner we returned to Steve and Lena's for a delicious BBQ dinner with Steve, Lena and MorgAn and Marina. That evening was the perfect bight cap so to speak to another wonderful vacation. Today, we head home with another bunch of wonderful memories!
Happy Camping!
Eric and Carol
The USS IOWA is known as the ship of presidents. This is because the ship, when originally built, had a bathtub installed in the Captains quarters so that if, and eventually when FDR traveled during World War II, he would be comfortable on board. It was also the mode of transportation on occasion for Ronald Regan and George HW Bush.
After we got done seeing the USS IOWA, we continued up the coast just a few miles to the point Vincente Light house. We came up here mostly, cause we heard a large whale pod of 27 had been spotted up there the other day. Though there were no whales to be seen today, we did see a group of dolphins!
For dinner we returned to Steve and Lena's for a delicious BBQ dinner with Steve, Lena and MorgAn and Marina. That evening was the perfect bight cap so to speak to another wonderful vacation. Today, we head home with another bunch of wonderful memories!
Happy Camping!
Eric and Carol
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Wonderful memories - such a good thing. But if I didn't do my blog a lot of those memories would be lost - lol. Safe journeys.
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