Mission San Jose

After Riverwalk, we picked up David at the RV and walked down to Mission San Jose that I had visited in the morning.  David’s not big into sightseeing, so the only way we talked him into it was because there was a Pizza Hut across the street.  Oh, and I also scammed both David and John.  It didn’t seem like a long walk in the morning, maybe ½ mile.  Well, it was more like a mile.  Both of them weren’t happy with the longer walk, especially when we returned after dark along a major road without many sidewalks.  Oops!

The mission was neat.  There were thick walls around it.  Though, as David told us, they were not very tall if they intended to defend the compound.  Inside were rooms along the outside wall for natives to live.  They had communal fireplaces built along this area along with wells in several places.  Inside the walls was a convent and a chapel. 

Outside the mission was a grist mill.  A guy there explained the system of making flour extremely well.  The picture shows the flour coming out into the wood bucket plus a sample of wheat and flour in the bowls.

And, yes, we enjoyed the pizza!