Elizabeth also loaded up on quite a few shells on this beach.  Shells are rare in Hawaii, so this was a treat for her.

I spent the afternoon in a spiritual session going back to a lifetime in the late 15th century/early 16th century.  It was quite fascinating and surprising in many ways, and also very emotional.

We have a lovely dinner at Nick's, a great restaurant we found by chance on the main drag of San Clemente.

Unwitting Visit to Camp Pendleton

Since we had some time to kill before driving back to the LAX for a late afternoon flight back home to Maui, we drove south toward San Diego.  Unwittingly. Yet for a reason...

Our neighbor's son is right now doing his boot camp training with Marines.  I did not know where exactly he was, but I must have felt his aura.  We did not even plan to go in that direction.  I took a 'wrong' turn on the I-5, and then then said to Elizabeth, 'why don't we just drive on toward San Diego since we have some time to kill?'  And so we did.

After a while, we stopped at the view point to take some pictures.  The view was not really all that great.  But I did see some tire tracks in the sand below the dunes, and made a mental note about how strange that was.  Tracks, yet no people or vehicles were visible in the vicinity?  Hm...  

Then two helicopters landed not far from us.  They looked like the troop-carrying types (Apache?).  

But the penny had still not dropped that we might be near or at Camp Pendleton until we turned to go back north toward LA.  As we drove under the I-5 to go to turn to the other side, I said to Elizabeth, "bet this is a part of Camp Pendleton."  Two second later, we saw the above sign confirming my intuition.  I stopped to take a picture (left).  I snapped a picture of the second highway sign for Camp Pendleton a few minutes later, on our way back to LA (right).

That's when the tire tracks and the helicopters started to make sense.  

"The tracks are probably from when they do training on the beach," I said to Elizabeth. I saw the Navy Seals doing the same at Coronado Island some years back.

So appears that the spirits have guided me to go there and connect viscerally with our nice neighbors and their son.  When we got home, I sent them the above two pictures.  They told us that their son had been originally training in the San Diego area, and had only a week or so earlier been transferred to Camp Pendleton.  He must have a strong aura.

TRIP SUMMARY

California: Land of Freeways and Shopping Malls

Santa Monica: Like a "Second Coming of JC"

The following day (Aug 3), our seventh in California, we recapped our trip during a two-hour drive back to the LAX.  What stood out as the most remarkable thing was that everywhere we went during our 1,400-mile trip, we saw endless freeways and shopping malls.  In other words, ugly man-made structures of concrete and steel designed to extract money out of American consumers' wallets.  That's what modern California has become - a land of freeways and shopping malls.  Some "culture"...

Obviously, this has got to have an effect on the psyche of its citizens.  Not a positive one.  A few days after we returned home, I read a story about the opening of a new shopping mall in Santa Monica.  Look at the crowds in the picture from that news report.  You'd think it was the second coming of Jesus Christ, not just a birth of another mall.

Looking at the above picture, I can only say, "Jesus Christ... what is this country coming to?" 

It is always good to come home to Maui after a trip.  But after this one, the natural beauty of the Rainbow Shower was even more striking in contrast to the ugliness and pollution we had left behind.  Elizabeth had even noticed some black spots and pimples on her skin, obviously a result of urban pollution.  Yet we were there only a week.  Imagine what such lifestyle does to the health of millions of people who live in that environment 24/7.  Yuck!

And that's all she wrote from our final two days in California.

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