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After six months of my PC800 Honda Pacific Coast sitting in the garage, I finally took it out around town today. With the pandemic going on, it’s been sitting in the garage collecting dust waiting for fewer people to be in the local hospital. Hopefully it won’t be so long until the next ride but we shall see… this pandemic is going to be going on for years.
We took Sunny out onto the lawn in his harness today. He did pretty well! He’s not to be trusted off-leash because we’re pretty sure he’d never come back. He get scared easily.
On today’s hike we went over to the lower Presidio. The Monterey Presidio is the only still-active presidio in the USA. All the rest have been converted to civilian uses. The bottom part of this presidio is open to the public.
There is a monument to Father Junipero Serra who founded the Spanish mission on the Monterey peninsula and is seen as the father of several towns in the area. There’s also a monument to Commodore Sloat who took Alta California from Mexico.