Mission San Juan Bautista Tour
May 2 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
TBD
Club Member, Mike Romo has set up a tour of the Mission San Juan Bautista.
We’ll meet at Fred and Lorie Saunders House off of Rio Road in Salinas. Fred will lead us to the Mission via the back roads.
Here is the itinerary:
1. Club members participating in the Mission tour should be gathered together to start the tour at 11 a.m. so folks can have lunch about an hour and a half later. We will allow time for people to to park their cars, get a group photo, have a bathroom break, and gather together to take the tour. (The tour will start at 11 a.m.)
2. Deacon Jewel Sean Gentry, Executive Director of the Mission San Juan Bautista Preservation Fund, who will lead the tour, will set aside an area for us to park our cars. It will probably be in front of the Casa Maria building in back of the Mission.
3. The private tour of the Mission church and the Museum will last approximately an hour. The tour will end at the Gift Shop where there are restrooms nearby. We will have a 30 minutes for a bathroom break and a brief gift shop visit for those that are interested.
4. Those staying for lunch will walk to the Jardines de San Juan, a good Mexican restaurant for the no-host lunch. There is outdoor and indoor seating at tables. I would expect lunch to be over by 1:30. (Please RSVP so we can give the restaurant a good head count.)
5. Following lunch, participants will leave for home or return to the Mission to spend more time in the Mission church, the museum, or the grounds. They could also visit the nearby San Juan Bautista State Park, which has interesting exhibits to see and is just across from the Mission’s entrance plaza.