Four Points Bulletin

Travels north, east, south, and west of our Oceanside home base.

Wilderness Gardens County Preserve is considered a SWAP (Small Wilderness Area Preserve), which provides a ‘mechanism by which people can preserve important natural areas of undeveloped land or small wilderness areas for the use and benefit of the general public.’ Thank goodness for forward thinkers. We, the general public, appreciate having the open space, with …

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Just thirty minutes from our home base in Oceanside, perched on a cliff overlooking La Jolla Shores, sits Birch Aquarium at Scripps (a public outreach center for UCSD’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography). The Aquarium was established in 1903. Its name was later changed to Scripps in order to honor financial supporters Ellen Browning Scripps and …

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The San Diego Society of Natural History is the oldest scientific institution in Southern California. In just two years the organization will celebrate its sesquicentennial (and 150 years of scientific contributions). The current location of the San Diego Natural History Museum is its fourth in Balboa Park, purchased in 1933 with contributions from local philanthropist, …

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In 1945, the USS Midway was commissioned as the largest ship in the world. It slowly became the longest serving aircraft carrier in the 20th century. A half century after it was commissioned (eons as far as technology is concerned) the ship was decommissioned, but that is not all she wrote. Twelve years later the …

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Vanillina, fettuccine, prosciutto, pancetta, gelato, cannelloni, panuozzo napoletano, pesto e più are packed like sardines into Ciao Marketplace in Vista. The marketplace, which includes a delicatessen, a bakery and gelateria, has whatever you are looking for to remind you of your last trip to Italy. It sits right in the middle of Ciao Ristorante, an …

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