The first stop for the HMS Beagle on the voyage north from Los Angeles was the inland town of El Paso de Robles (The Pass of the Oaks), commonly known as Paso Robles. The Beagle anchored at the Wine Country RV Park, the very name of which will give the reader a pretty good idea…
With some regret at leaving behind the beauty of San Diego and surrounding countryside, the HMS Beagle weighed anchor and set a northerly course for Los Angeles. It was not a long journey as predicted by the charts, but the shipping lanes in the Los Angeles area, while plentiful and wide, are so congested that…
After arriving at its first California mooring spot, Rancho Los Coches (where frankly, even the views from the Wal-Mart parking lot were spectacular), the crew of the HMS Beagle set out to explore the City of San Diego. The Captain especially was very impressed by the city’s fabulous mountain setting. Even in the city itself…
The HMS Beagle set out from Yuma, Arizona and with great enthusiasm headed for San Diego, California, but with Yuma on the Arizona/California border, our trip was almost entirely within California. Also, the course taken by the Beagle was for the most part very close to the US/Mexican border. As we travelled west from Yuma,…
After leaving San Antonio, the HMS Beagle headed west stopping in Fort Stockton Texas, then continuing through west Texas, past El Paso, mooring in Las Cruces New Mexico for a night, finally pulling into port in Tucson Arizona for a few days. On the way to and through Arizona, the Beagle travelled through…