Four Points Bulletin

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

Baker, Nevada is the closest town to Great Basin National Park. In summer months, there is more action here but during off season, there is not one restaurant in sight. There is a non-manned gas station and a small general store in a small hotel (with the nicest owners, one of which worked as the …

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Each Thursday before Halloween Oceanside’s Thursday Sunset Market is transformed into Haunted Market, where kids can don their Halloween costumes and go from booth to booth trick-or-treating for candy, honey sticks and miniature cheesecakes. Sunset Market is amazing but this festive version is even better.

Heritage Park is a small Oceanside city park with a collection of historic Oceanside buildings constructed in the late 1800s. Usually these buildings are closed to the public but today, as Oceanside Park and Rec volunteers passed out candy, the interior were revealed. I was expecting pumpkin painting, costumes, trick-or-treating and a movie on the …

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Anza Borrego Desert State Park is the second largest state park in the United States and, as a bonus, it is surrounded by public wilderness area. Anza Borrego is also the second place in the world designated as an International Dark Sky Community. Naturally it is the perfect place to come to watch the Perseid …

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We are lucky living in Oceanside, for lots of reasons. One of them being there is a train station, providing a convenient and fun way to travel. There is also a train station in Old Town, San Diego, making it an ideal day trip. Old Town was orginally Kumiai land, but when the Spaniards arrived …

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