Pinnacles Redux

After our tour of Port Chicago yesterday, we headed down to San Jose to check into our hotel room, and then spent the evening visiting one of R's college roommates and his family (read about the last time we bumped into them here). Fun time for the basketball junkies watching the All-Star Saturday Night festivities and playing board games with the girls! And the grown-ups had a great time catching up! We also enjoyed going to their church for worship service this morning and watching the first half of the Illinois game. Why only the first half? Well, they were playing (not very well) against Wisconsin, and besides we had another stop to make on our 6-hour drive home.  

Third Time's the Charm

Currently there are 405 units in the National Park Service. As of today we have visited 111 of them together as family! We checked off our latest one with a tour of Port Chicago Naval Magazine N MEM. 

Port Chicago is one of the more challenging units to visit because it is located within MOTCO (Military Ocean Terminal Concord). When there are active operations at the base, no tours are available to the public for weeks or months at a time. And when it is open, reservations must be made at least two weeks in advance so that the military can conduct background clearance checks. The last two times that we have been in the vicinity, Port Chicago was closed. Needless to say, I was really happy that the timing was finally right for us to visit!

Long Day's Journey into Night

WHAT?!?!?!  

No school on Friday or Monday for President's Day weekend?!

No basketball games scheduled for either of the boys?!  

AND... Port Chicago is now taking reservations for tours since the military base is not conducting any operations for the time being?! (More on that in the next post)

Yippee!  Road trip!  Road Trip!  R-O-A-D  T-R-I-P!