Four Points Bulletin

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

Giant Dutchman’s Pipe, San Diego Botanic Garden

Giant Dutchman’s Pipe is a tropical evergreen vine native to humid forests of Central and South America. Its flowers are a velvety burgundy color and smell of lemon drops. They can bloom up to two feet long by one feet wide. They are beautiful but deadly, if ingested they can cause irreversible kidney failure. It…

San Diego vs. St. Louis Cardinals, Petco Park

Petco Park is a 40,209 capacity ballpark named after the San Diego-based pet supply company (whose naming rights end in 2027). Petco Park is located in the middle of Downtown San Diego, and is home to the San Diego Padres. The stadium is beautiful, there is no other place I would rather watch a baseball…

Super Girl Surf Pro, Oceanside

Nissan Super Girl Surf Pro is the largest female surf contest in the world. It was developed in 2007, to showcase women in a male dominated sport. Now it is a three day event with sports (surf and volleyball), live music, merchandise and food. It has turned into a festival, and it is located right…

Los Angeles Union Station Train Festival

Los Angeles Union Station is the largest railroad passenger terminal in the western United States. It serves about 110,000 passengers daily, and today was busier than usual as it hosted the Los Angeles Union Station Train Festival. This 52-acre transportation hub opened in 1939. It was designed by a father/son architect team, who blended Spanish…

Wilderness Gardens Preserve, Pala

Wilderness Gardens Preserve is a 737-acre preserve in Pala, CA. It is one of our favorite places to go since we typically have the preserve to ourselves. Today we brought a bike so that we could walk further faster. Although it isn’t specifically a posted rule, I don’t think bikes are technically allowed at preserves,…

Anza Borrego Wilderness

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…

Old Town, San Diego

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…

Tarzan, Moonlight Amphitheater

Moonlight Amphitheater opened in 1982 and has since produced 230 shows on their stage. We have made it a tradition to say goodbye to summer vacation with a Moonlight performance. And for the first year, I felt like A1 was old enough to join in the fun. The tricky part of seeing an outdoor show…

Self-Realization Fellowship Meditation Gardens, Encinitas

The Self-Realization Fellowship in Encinitas was founded in 1937 by Paramahansa Yogananda (known for bringing yoga and mediation to the West). The Monterrey pine protected by the wood screen was a gift to Yogananda from the orient. The tree is located south of the public area of the meditation gardens (if you don’t know direction…

Savage Gardens, San Diego Botanic Garden

Savage Gardens is a traveling exhibition that is making its first ever appearance in San Diego. The San Diego Botanic Garden is hosting “The Real and Imaginary World of Carnivorous Plants” until October. It is incredible how the 8,000 square foot conservatory has been transformed into a bog. We plan to make multiple visits because…

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