7/14/13 - Trabuco Canyon, CA

We had breakfast this morning at the Elk’s Lodge.  It was really good, especially since I didn’t have to cook it.  We hooked up and drove to San Juan Capistrano.  We visited the famed mission where the swallows fly back every year on March 19 from Argentina.  The mission’s chapel was destroyed by an earthquake a few years after it was completed and it was never rebuilt.   

We got an RV site in Trabuco Canyon, California at the O’Neill Regional Park.  This is the first time on this trip that we have boondocked.  Jim found a brewpub in Rancho Santa Margarita that was open until 5:00.  We got in the truck and went for a beer.  Cismontane Brewing makes a really good beer called Mesa.  It’s 75 percent pilsner and 25 percent Reisling.  We had a couple of their other beers and they were very good.   We chatted with the brewer, Evan.  When we got back to camp, Jim cooked Beef Burgundy in the Dutch Oven.