7/15/13 - Trabuco Canyon, CA

Jim took us to a geocache across the road from our camping site.  Then we drove into Yorba Linda to the Nixon Presidential Library.  This is also the site of his birthplace and the graves of him and his wife Pat.  We toured the library, house and helicopter from 10:00 to 3:00.  The house was built by Nixon's father in 1912 from a kit and is in its original location.  We saw the bedroom where Nixon was born.  The helicopter is the same one that Nixon used to leave the White House when he resigned.

 It was too late to visit any breweries on the way back because they didn’t open until 5:00 and we didn’t want to drive back in the dark through the hills.  We found a geocache across from the Nixon library called “Tricky Dick” -- it was down a manhole cover.  We stopped at a wine/beer store across from Cismontane Brewing and bought a bottle of Mesa to take back with us.  We also picked up a few bottles of beer from some of the breweries in the area we didn’t get to visit today.  We sat out at camp, drank a few of the beers and fired up the generator to be able to update the blog.  We will have Jim’s leftovers tonight with a salad.