Frommer's San Diego 2011
by Mark Hiss · 2 Jan 2007
). Another worthy chain is Wahoo’s Fish Taco (www.wahoos.com), with locations including La Jolla (639 Pearl St.; & 858/459-0027), Encinitas (1006 N. El Camino Real; & 760/753-5060), Mission Valley (2195 Station Village Way; & 619/299-4550), and the Sports Arena area (3944 W. Point Loma Blvd.; & 619/222-0020
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private garden decks. A sister B&B, the 5-room Secret Garden Inn, is located adjacent to the owner’s nearby Cafe Secret Bistro, 1140 El Camino Real (& 858/481-4239), a Euro-style bistro serving breakfast and lunch. 944 Camino del Mar (btw. 9th and 10th sts.), Del Mar, CA 92014. & 858
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has 4-course tasting menus ($68) and a sushi menu. This is truly fine dining in a relaxed atmosphere. 3702 Via de la Valle (at El Camino Real), Del Mar. & 858/523-0007. www.marketdelmar.com. Reservations recommended. Main courses $25–$35; sushi $12–$22. AE, MC, V. Daily 5–10pm. Free valet
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:30pm), when a shorter bar/bistro menu is up to half-off; mai tais are $4 on Wednesday. 11 SIDE TRIPS FROM SAN DIEGO 11966 El Camino Real (next to I-5 in the Marriott Del Mar), Carmel Valley. & 858/369-6032. www. arterrarestaurant.com. Reservations recommended. Main courses $7–$12 breakfast, $13
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. 227). If you’ve ever wanted to get a glimpse into the artistic process, get yourself to the Lux Art Institute in Encinitas, 1550 S. El Camino Real (& 760/436-6611; www. luxartinstitute.com). This unique facility, a work of art in itself, allows visitors to watch as an artist-in-residence paints
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_626214-ch11.indd 24814_626214-ch11.indd 248 7/23/10 11:23 PM7/23/10 11:23 PM 2100 Costa del Mar Rd. (at El Camino Real), Carlsbad, CA 92009. & 800/854-5000 or 760/438-9111. Fax 760/931-7585. www.lacosta.com. 610 units. $279–$307 double; from $363 suite
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available. AE, DC, DISC, MC, V. Valet parking $25 overnight; self-parking $12. Bus: 309. From I-5 take La Costa Ave. east; left on El Camino Real. Amenities: 5 restaurants/cafes; 4 bars; bike rentals; children’s center and programs (age 6 months–16); concierge; 2 golf courses; health club; 5 Jacuzzis
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. $500 double; from $600 suite. AE, DC, MC, V. Free parking. From I-5 take the Del Mar Heights exit heading east, go left on El Camino Real, right on San Dieguito Rd., right on Rancho Digueño Rd., and make an immediate left onto Rancho Valencia Dr. Pets $75 per day. Amenities: Restaurant
Parks Directory of the United States
by Darren L. Smith and Kay Gill · 1 Jan 2004
Trails Assn PO Box 1019 Independence, MO 64051 816-252-2276 - Phone 816-836-0989 - Fax Web: www.octa-trails.org ★1056★ EL CAMINO REAL DE LOS TEJAS NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL El Camino Real de los Tejas Association Web: www.elcaminorealtx.com Trail Administrator NPS National Trails System Office, Salt Lake City 324 S. State St
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historic sites and other points of interest. More than 1,000 miles are completed and some 300 miles are officially open to public use. ★1057★ EL CAMINO REAL DE TIERRA ADENTRO NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL Bureau of Land Management PO Box 27115 Santa Fe, NM 87502 505-438-7454 - Phone 505-438-7426 - Fax
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-441-5606 - Fax Web: www.nps.gov/iatr Length: 404 miles. Established: October 13, 2000. Description: The longest and oldest European road in North America, El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (The Royal Road of the Interior Lands) was used for more than 300 years as the primary route between northern Mexico and
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Grande River Valley, also used the area and trail along the Rio Grande long before Europeans arrived. After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, El Camino Real expanded its importance as a trade route and linked with the Santa Fe Trail. In 1846, it played an important part in the Mexican-American
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in New Mexico. The historical period of the trail ended in 1882, when railroad connections replaced wagon trails across the West. The total mileage of El Camino Real from Mexico City to San Juan Pueblo is 1,500 miles. The trail is managed jointly by the Bureau of Land Management and the National
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by the city of Santa Fe that then served as a hub of international trade, linked east by the Santa Fe Trail and south by El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (both also now recognized as national historic trails; see separate entries for descriptions of each). Such trade created significant impact on the
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their loop by taking the White Mountains Trail National Scenic Byway (see separate entry for description). Time to Allow: 1 hour. ★1210★ EL CAMINO REAL NATIONAL SCENIC BYWAY c/o El Camino Real International Heritage Center PO Box 175 Socorro, NM 87801 Web: www.byways.org/browse/byways/2065/ Phone: 505-854-3600 Length: 299 miles
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. Designation/Year: National Scenic Byway (2005). Description: Beginning in the 16th century and spanning more than 300 years of active use, El Camino Real (‘‘The Royal Highway’’) served as a major artery for travel and commerce from Mexico City through the provinces of New Spain to the Rio Grande
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William Howard Taft National Historic Site (OH). . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 National Historic Trails Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail (HI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . California National Historic Trail (UT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail (NM) . . . . El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail (NM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iditarod National Historic Trail (AK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail (CA) . . . . . . . . . . Lewis
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(CA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway - Colorado (CO) . . . . . Dinosaur Diamond Prehistoric Highway - Utah (UT) . . . . . . . . . Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway (CA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edge of the Wilderness Scenic Byway (MN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . El Camino Real National Scenic Byway (NM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flaming Gorge-Uintas Scenic Byway (UT). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flint Hills Scenic Byway (KS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byway (CO) . . . . . . . . . . 1154 1181 1123
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Eero Saarinen: MO 193 Effigy Mounds: IA 1173 Effigy Tumuli: IL 2207 Egmont Key Lighthouse: FL 1939 Eisenhower (Dwight D.): PA 102; TX 4315 El Camino Real: NM 1210 El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail: NM 1057 El Dorado Nature Center: CA 4884 El Malpais: NM 103 El Morro Fort: PR 318 Eleanor
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Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2518 City Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4913 Creole Nature Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1180 Cypremort Point State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2519 D’Arbonne National Wildlife Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709 Delta National Wildlife Refuge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713 El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail. . . . . . . . .★1056 Fairview-Riverside State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2520 Fontainebleau State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2521 Fort Jesup State Historic Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2522 Fort Pike State
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3364 Conchas Lake State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3365 Continental Divide National Scenic Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .★1055 Coyote Creek State Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3366 Eagle Nest Lake State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3367 El Camino Real National Scenic Byway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1210 El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail. . . .★1057 El Malpais National Monument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 El Morro National Monument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 El Vado Lake State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3368
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Dies (Martin Jr.) State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4363 Dinosaur Valley State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4314 Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4315 Eisenhower State Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4316 El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail. . . . . . . . .★1056 El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail. . . .★1057 Emilie & Albert Friedrich Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4966 Emma Long Metropolitan Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4808 Enchanted Rock State Natural Area
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(NH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3242 Eisenhower National Historic Site (PA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Eisenhower State Park (KS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2438 Eisenhower State Park (TX). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4316 El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail (TX). . . . . 1056 El Camino Real National Scenic Byway (NM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1210 El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail (NM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057 El Capitan State Beach (CA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1577 El Dorado East Regional Park
Frommer's New Mexico
by Lesley S. King · 2 Jan 1999 · 420pp · 219,075 words
Martinez Hacienda is an example of a hacienda stronghold. It has been developed into a living museum featuring weavers, blacksmiths, and woodcarvers. See p. 222. El Camino Real International Heritage Center (30 miles south of Socorro off I-25, exit 115; & 575/854-3600; www.nmmonuments.org): This museum traces the 1,500
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Sun 5pm. SANTA FE What to See & Do Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe This church, built between 1776 and 1796 at the end of El Camino Real by Franciscan missionaries, is believed to be the oldest shrine in the United States honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico. Better
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This 200-acre ranch, about 15 minutes south of the plaza via I-25, was once the last stopping place on the 1,000-mile El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe. Today, it’s a living 18th- and 19thcentury Spanish village, comprising a hacienda, a village store, a schoolhouse, and
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Cruising the Royal Road As you skim across the open desert on Interstate 25, take heart in knowing that you’re following an ancient route: El Camino Real, or the Royal Road that ran from Mexico to San Juan Pueblo north of Santa Fe. It’s older than recorded history, traveled first by
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Missouri. To find out more about this route, visit the El Camino Real International Heritage Center. See below for details. 309 SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO Socorro & the VLA 11 Other Attractions El Camino Real International Heritage Center This museum, opened in 2005, tells the story of El Camino Real, the 1,500-mile international trade route from Mexico to San
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carved vigas (rafters), and supporting corbel arches. English-language Masses are Saturday at 5 and 7pm and Sunday at 8am, 10am, and 12:30pm. 403 El Camino Real NW, 2 blocks north of the plaza. & 575/835-2891. www.sdc.org/~smiguel. Free admission. Mon–Fri 8am–7:30pm (winter till 6:30pm
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Kid, who was sentenced to death in this area, and Pancho Villa, who spent time here, are present throughout the region. Established in 1849 on El Camino Real, the “royal highway” between Santa Fe and Mexico City, Las Cruces became a supply center for miners prospecting the Organ Mountains and soldiers stationed at
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late 16th century. This village on Las Cruces’s southwestern flank was established in the late 1500s by Mexican colonists. It became the crossroads of El Camino Real and the Butterfield Overland Mail route. The Gadsden Purchase, which annexed Mesilla to the United States and fixed the current international boundaries of New Mexico
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(Pecos National Historical Park), 188 Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council (San Juan Pueblo), 187 Eight Northern Pueblos Artist and Craftsman Show, 38 El Calderon, 254 El Camino Real, 309 El Camino Real International Heritage Center (near Socorro), 310 El Chorro, 282 Eldorado Hotel (Santa Fe), 180 Electricity, 386 Elephant Butte Lake State Park, 69, 307–308
Top 10 San Diego
by Pamela Barrus and Dk Publishing · 2 Jan 2007 · 135pp · 53,708 words
6 7 8 9 0 La Casa del Padre Serra Church Campanario Cemetery Garden Statues Padre Luis Jayme Museum Chapel Gardens Father Luis Jayme Memorial El Camino Real La Casa del Padre Serra The original 1774 adobe walls and beams survived an Indian attack, a military occupation, earthquakes, and years of neglect. Padres
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), patron saint of the Indians, Father Serra, St. Joseph, saint of Serra’s expedition, and St. Francis oversee the inner garden. Padre Luis Jayme Museum El Camino Real Also called the Royal Road or the King’s Highway, this road linked the 21 California missions, each a day’s distance apart by horseback
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. d Map E2 • 1875 Joe Crosson Dr, El Cajon • (619) 448-8900 San Diego Polo Club Attend polo matches on Sundays. d Map E2 • 14555 El Camino Real, Rancho Santa Fe • (858) 481-9217 Golf Watch the annual golf tournaments at Torrey Pines and La Costa. Mission Bay Park Mission Bay hosts many
Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert · 2 Jan 2009
of the church, at the edge of an abr upt drop created by the San Andreas Fault, a marker notes the path of the old El Camino Real. Seismographic measuring equipment and an earthquake science exhibit accompany the mar ker. There’s much to see on the r estored city plaza as w
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you’ve ever wanted to get a glimpse into the ar tistic process, get y ourself to the Lux Art Institute in Encinitas, 1550 S. El Camino Real (& 760/436-6611; www.luxartinstitute. com). This unique facility—a work of art in itself—allows visitors to watch as an artist-inresidence paints, sculpts
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Trail, 218 East Beach (Santa Barbara), 458 East West Players (Los Angeles), 589 Eberle Winery (Paso Robles), 444 The Egyptian Theatre (Los Angeles), 552, 597 El Camino Real, 386 El Capitan, 316 Electricity, 770 El Floridita (Los Angeles), 592 Elk (town), 232 Elkhorn Slough Wildlife Reserve, 392 El Matador Beach, 565 El Pescador
California
by Sara Benson · 15 Oct 2010
sandals. Orientation Palo Alto is bordered by Hwy-101 on its northeast edge and I-280 to the southwest. In between it’s bisected by El Camino Real, which also divides the town from the campus. University Ave is Palo Alto’s main street and continues, with a name change to Palm Dr
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, straight into the heart of the Stanford campus. The extensive Stanford Shopping Center is on El Camino Real just north of campus. Information Chamber of Commerce ( 650-324-3121; www.paloaltochamber.com; 122 Hamilton Ave; 9am-5pm Mon-Fri) Palo Alto Weekly (www
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and Victorian houses. Two rooms with shared bathroom cost $105 to $125. Creekside Inn ( 650-493-2411, 800-492-7335; www.creekside-inn.com; 3400 El Camino Real; r $229-279; wi-fi) Primarily serving business travelers, this lushly landscaped Arts and Crafts retreat has comfortable modern rooms – all with patio or balcony
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, and the pub food (including homemade curry on Mondays) and Tuesday trivia night reel in the regulars. Entertainment Palo Alto Bowl ( 650-948-1031; 4329 El Camino Real) This is the real deal if you’re hankering to knock a few back (meaning pins). Stop by on Friday and Saturday nights, when the
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HP Pavilion, a massive glass-and-metal stadium. The NHL season runs from September to April. Buck Shaw Stadium (Map; http://sjearthquakes.mlsnet.com; 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara; tickets $20-60) Located at Santa Clara University, this is the new temporary home for the San Jose Earthquakes Major League Soccer team
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final California mission and the only one built during the Mexican period (the rest were founded by the Spanish; ). It marks the northernmost point on El Camino Real. Five of the mission’s original rooms remain. The not-to-be-missed chapel dates from 1841. The adobe Sonoma Barracks (E Spain St) were
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agricultural heartland in Salinas, both places immortalized by Nobel Prize–winner John Steinbeck in his gritty 20th-century novels. Then follow inland Hwy 101, called El Camino Real (the King’s Highway) by Spanish conquistadors and Franciscan friars, who built a chain of Catholic missions here starting in the late 18th century. No
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campus was built. MISSION SANTA CRUZ Founded in 1791, the 12th of the California missions, Santa Cruz, was isolated from the comings and goings along El Camino Real and had only a small Native American population of Ohlone tribespeople to do all the hard work. Worse, the mission competed for attention with Branciforte
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is a quicker way to travel between the Bay Area and Southern California. Although it lacks the striking scenery of coastal Hwy 1, the historic El Camino Real (the King’s Highway), established by Spanish conquistadors and missionaries, has a beauty of its own, ranging from the fertile fields of Salinas (immortalized by
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thriller Vertigo were shot here, although the bell tower in the climactic scene is just a special effect – sorry. Below the cemetery, a section of El Camino Real can be seen. This Spanish colonial road, built to link the missions, was the state’s first. In many places Hwy 101 still follows the
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; wi-fi) Owner and actress Beverly Garland oversees this sprawling and nicely landscaped property with seven-story towers and Mission-style accents (it’s on El Camino Real). It’s close to Universal Studios (free shuttles) and has its own pool, sauna and tennis courts, and a fitness room with equipment not found
Fodor's California 2014
by Fodor's · 5 Nov 2013 · 1,540pp · 400,759 words
, Hwy. 246 | 93460 | 805/688–2517 | www.gliderrides.com. Los Olivos 4 miles north of Santa Ynez. This pretty village was once on Spanish-built El Camino Real (Royal Road) and later a stop on major stagecoach and rail routes. It’s so sleepy today, though, that the movie Return to Mayberry was
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11 and 3:15 from the visitor center in the front hall of Memorial Auditorium. | Main Quad,450 Serra Mall, at Palm Dr., south off El Camino Real, | Stanford | 94305 | 650/723–2300 | www.stanford.edu. Mission Santa Clara de Asis. In the center of Santa Clara University’s campus is the Mission
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earlier structures, which dated from the 1790s and 1820s. Early adobe walls and a spectacular garden with 4,500 roses remain intact as well. | 500 El Camino Real, | Pescadero | 408/554–4023 | www.scu.edu/visitors/missionchurch | Free | Self-guided tours daily 6 am–8 pm. At the southern end of Silicon Valley
The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo--And the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation
by James Donovan · 14 May 2012 · 474pp · 149,248 words
less populous Apaches out of the south Texas area and terrorized the Spanish inhabitants for a century. For the most part, they remained north of El Camino Real, the “Royal Road” of the Spanish empire that belied its name: a simple cart path that arced from the Rio Grande through Béxar all the
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be. If they did not fight Santa Anna here, the Mexican army would drive into the colonies—including Bastrop, just a few days’ march up El Camino Real, where Neill lived with his family. His grown sons, Samuel and George, could fend for themselves—the previous summer, they had participated with their father
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began to leave Saltillo for Monclova, 150 miles to the north, winding its way along El Camino Real, the “Royal Road,” between imposing mountain peaks. Three hundred miles beyond that city—about halfway up the portion of El Camino Real that ran from Mexico City to Nacogdoches in far east Texas—lay Béxar. Santa Anna would
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for that now—Santa Anna would surprise the ungrateful Anglo colonists, or many of his men would die trying. ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILES NORTH on El Camino Real lay the objective of Santa Anna’s army. Left to defend Béxar was a garrison that by mid-January had dwindled down to eighty men
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. I am with my friends. The ex-congressman and his companions soon set out west along the Old San Antonio Road—the Anglo name for El Camino Real—for Washington, 125 miles away on the Brazos River. There they hoped to receive orders from Houston, the recently appointed commander in chief of the
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Sierra Madres and to the eastern edge of a huge desert that continued all the way to the Rio Grande. Though most of the region El Camino Real ran through was semiarid and not extreme desert, it was an inhospitable stretch of land. Typical of the region, the weather remained cool at night
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fall on stragglers and deserters, killing soldiers and soldaderas indiscriminately. The Comanches also stole caches of food that had been placed at small ranches along El Camino Real. Improperly packed cases of hardtack soaked by rain went bad and reduced the soldiers’ meager rations. Eventually the road north from Monclova was strewn with
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and raced after the Vanguard Brigade. This was, all things considered, a less arduous trek. Though the nights were cold, the simple trail that constituted El Camino Real in south Texas was in good shape; there had been little rain lately, and most of the surface was firm and dry. The towering mountains
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Pedro Creek and trotted past barren cornfields and the Campo Santo burial ground and out of town along muddy Calle Real, the street that became El Camino Real. BY LATE AFTERNOON of the twenty-second, the weather had again conspired against Santa Anna’s Army of Operations. A wave of heavy rain hit
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no longer wait for Gaona to arrive with the heavier cannon, which were only twelve-pounders in any case. He dispatched a messenger back down El Camino Real to find the First Infantry Brigade, carrying orders to immediately send Gaona’s three best battalions—the Aldama Permanente, the Toluca Activo, and the crack
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struggling to reach the same destination. Two days after leaving Béxar, His Excellency’s courier found General Gaona’s First Infantry Brigade 120 miles down El Camino Real, at Peña Creek—“no more than a big puddle of water,” remembered one officer. When the courier delivered the orders, and Gaona revealed which units
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rebel resistance, he felt no such urgency. The campaign was essentially over, it appeared. The three columns sweeping through Texas—Gaona to the north, up El Camino Real by way of Bastrop; Ramírez y Sesma through the central region, toward San Felipe; and Urrea to the south, along the coast—would quickly mop
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the rumor. Houston was in contact with General Edmund P. Gaines, in charge of fourteen U.S. infantry companies moved to the Sabine crossing on El Camino Real, ostensibly to protect settlers in the area from Indian depredations. Gaines was ready and willing to cross over if he found “any disposition on the
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with and when, is not clear, but the best evidence indicates that Crockett traveled from Washington to Bastrop and thence to Béxar—the route of El Camino Real, though he may have made a detour or two along the way. Noah Smithwick, in Evolution of a State, p. 81, writes: “I was taken
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books and articles. Autry’s January 13, 1836, letter to his wife is quoted in Looscan, pp. 319–20. The information about the stands along El Camino Real is taken from Jenkins, The General’s Tight Pants. The description of Washington, the town on the Brazos River, is in Gray, Diary of Colonel
Coastal California Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
) and Catholic missions and Mexican pueblos (towns) have all left traces here for you to find. Mission San Juan Capistrano A painstakingly restored jewel along ‘El Camino Real,’ California’s mission trail. Old Town San Diego State Historic Park Time travel back to the late 19th century at California’s first civilian Spanish
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built in 1823, partly to forestall Russians at Fort Ross from moving inland. This was the 21st and final California mission – the northernmost point on El Camino Real – and the only one built during the Mexican period (the rest were founded during the Spanish Colonial era). Five original rooms remain. The not-to
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vainglorious Hearst Castle, past lighthouses and edgy cliffs atop which endangered condors soar. Get acquainted with California’s agricultural heartland along inland Hwy 101, called El Camino Real (the King’s Highway) by Spanish conquistadors and Franciscan friars. Colonial missions still line the route, which passes through Paso Robles' flourishing wine and craft
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this historic ranch will. Accommodations are shabby-chic, even a tad rustic. Sea View InnB&B$$ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %831-624-8778; www.seaviewinncarmel.com; El Camino Real, btwn 11th & 12th Aves; r $145-295; W) Retreat from downtown Carmel’s hustle to fireside nooks tailor-made for reading. The cheapest rooms with
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is a quicker way to travel between the Bay Area and Southern California. Although it lacks the striking scenery of coastal Hwy 1, the historic El Camino Real (King’s Highway), established by Spanish conquistadors and missionaries, has a beauty of its own. Along the way are plenty of sights worth stopping for
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, although the bell tower in the movie's climactic scene was just a special effect. Below the mission cemetery, you can spy a section of El Camino Real, the Spanish colonial road built to link California's first missions. San Juan Bautista State Historic ParkPARK ( GOOGLE MAP ; %831-623-4881; www.parks.ca
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Montaña de Oro State Park, not far away from San Luis Obispo. Margarita AdventuresZIPLINING, KAYAKING ( GOOGLE MAP ; %805-438-3120; www.margarita-adventures.com; 22719 El Camino Real, Santa Margarita; adult/child zip-line tour $119/89; h8am-4:30pm Thu-Tue; c) Whoosh down five zip lines across the vineyards beneath the
Southwest USA Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
19), San Juan (June 24) and San Lorenzo (August 10 and Christmas Eve). Contact Laguna Pueblo (505-552-6654; www.lagunapueblo.org) for more information. EL CAMINO REAL El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro – the Royal Road of the Interior Lands – was the Spanish colonial version of an interstate highway, linking Mexico City to the original
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of Independence, and many were here before New Mexico became part of the US. Thirty miles south of Socorro at Exit 115 on I-25, El Camino Real International Heritage Center (www.caminorealheritage.org; adult/child $5/free; 8:30am-5pm Wed-Sun) explores the history of the Royal Road with artifacts, bilingual
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visual displays and special events. You can drive El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail through the desolate Jornada del Muerto – the notoriously dry 90-mile stretch that earned its name by claiming more
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