After the second and last day of the Coastwalk Board Meeting, we left Sebastopol around noon for the the two south bay missions - San Jose and Santa Clara.
We arrived at the San Jose Mission around 2:00 PM which is actually in Fremont, adjacent to San Jose. Mission San Jose, the 14th Mission is the latest Mission to have its church restored. It was founded in 1797 and like many of the other Missions fell into neglect over the years. The restoration completed in 1985 cost over $5 million dollars and closely reesembles the Mission as it looked in 1809. It is also a working Catholic church seving the Fremont community.
Day 3 Pictures - San Jose Mission
The Mission at Santa Clara (Santa Clara de Asis) is the 8th Mission and is on the camapus of Santa Clara University, the first college of higher learning in California. The Mission was transferred to the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in 1851by the Dominican Bishop who could no longer afford to maintain the Mission. Since then, Santa Clara University has become one of the top universities in the country. It has a full-time enrollment of about 5,000 students and tuition costs $35,000 per year with room and board another $11,000. It is a beautiful campus and a great school, but it looks like you either have to be very rich or very poor to go there, but in any case, I am sure you would have to be a good student to stay there.
Today, the Mission church serves as the student chapel and is the spiritual heart of the university. And again, like other Missions it has been rebuilt and restored over the years. There are however, some initial Mission walls remaining and the bell tower holds the original bells sent from Spain when the original Mission was constructed.
Day 3 Pictures - Santa Clara De Asis Mission
Arriving back at the RV Park around 6:00PM, we ate take-out BBQ in the RV and watched the rest of the Eagles-Cowboys game on TV. Not a good game, but the BBQ was good.
We break camp early tomorrow morning and head for Monterey with two Missions enroute (San Juan Batista and Santa Cruz) and another (Carmel) after we sent up camp at the Naval Post Graduate School RV Park in Monterey.
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