Santiago Creek

Santiago Creek is a tributary to the Santa Ana River...and cemented too...last week I rolled along the Creek from Hart Park to the Mall...about a mile...and today from Hart Park to the Reservoir that looks to be in an old mining pit for sand...the Bike Path pretty much ends at Collins, about 3.5 miles, judging from the markers, from the Mall, I think!...it's kind of a tangle...the Path should connect with the Santa Ana River Path, but private property with stubborn private owners intervenes...a stretch blocked there of maybe a couple miles...when I reached the Pit at Collins, I didn't know it was there, and sighting Hawk drop from a wire across the Street, I thought to find Hawk in a low depression...peering over the fences, I was reminded of the Arizona Meteor Crater with Water and Mono Lake's Seagulls!...and wherever Hawk went was like a hundred feet down!...studying the Map I see I was short of the very end of the Path, so that for sometime...a quiet quiet Path...thought was to find Bike Path that would take one to Irvine Park and avoid Surface Streets...on the return, I hopped in Silver and drove back, and tried to find that route, and too, route to Saddleback...Saddleback can be hiked, a dirt road, and maybe trails, and for sometime...remarkable that I've never hiked Saddleback, but the Foothills, except when briefly green in early Spring, are a bit like a buff colored dog with mange!...I rolled all the way to O'neill Park, and asked for directions to Saddleback, and so now know where the start is--one needs a hiking permit...the Roads hereabout, Silverado, Trabuco, Modjeska, are all very familiar, but the traffic is hectic, very unlike the country drives in my TR4 when one could putter about in Walter Mitty fashion!...there is a good bike lane on Santiago Canyon Road, and maybe for sometime, but the countryside is very quiet...overnight camping at O'neill, so maybe sometime I can study this out for a few days...warm hazy cloudy light breeze...Portola has been an interest for a long time, a remarkable expedition...awhile back I found Crespi's diary in the GG Libray...the volumes were sundamaged from sitting on shelves near the windows, and never opened...I would read them sitting on the step stool, as I often read in Libraries!...and looking for this, I find:

A description of distant roads: Original journals of the first expedition into California, 1769-1770 Hardcover

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