The last half of our California vacation was spent in the San Diego area. We actually spent our nights at San Onofre Beach on Camp Pendleton in a "cottage." (In reality it was actually a single wide trailer which included special compliments of a roaming little mouse and several electrical outages. Not to mention we were right by the Amtrak train and highway so we could hear the trains and traffic all night long - awesome!) However, our front view was this, so our stay was just fine:
All snug in our cottage.
We were always coming and going on our trip and never actually spent any real time on the beach. So on one particular morning before we about to go to Sea World, the boys wanted to go check out the ocean since this was their first time ever experiencing it.
Those were our cottages in the background.
Staying at Camp Pendleton (which is a Marine Corps base) made Jed pretty nostalgic. This was the very place where he went to Infantry School back when he was in the Marines as a young man. The distinct smell in the air, the hills that he used to hike, watching the Marines train on the beach, and hearing artillery explosions in the background brought many memories flooding back for Jed. It made him miss it all quite a bit.
The kids loved feeling the pull of the waves coming in and out.
Rigdon got hit by one particular wave that dowsed him completely with sand, tiny rocks, and salty water. He wasn't too sure what to think about all of it.
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