Traveling around in #SanJose and #NearbyToSanJose at 825 mph on our spinning planet.
Thing
You can still ride steam engines in the Santa Cruz Mountains and explore the redwoods at Roaring Camp. You can walk around the shops at the train depot and then enjoy the beauty of the nature around you as you travel through the woods.
There is something about train rides like these that are pretty exciting.
And you can experience the ride of an all wheel drive steam train engine designed to cary loads through steep terrain.
San José is an old city for the west coast of the USA, beginning as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe in 1777. It’s largest school district, San José Unified School District, began as the San Jose City School District in 1863 and still has its written records from the late eighteen hundreds.
Mural by artist Bill Vujevich.
This is the Gonzales/Peralta Adobe house. It is the oldest house in San Jose still standing and was built by José Manuel Gonzeles in 1797.
That is pay phone, in a stone hall, at Stanford University. I wonder how often it is used these days. Photo taken by a flip phone of the kind that came along to make pay phones far harder to find starting several years ago.
Bedrock mortars at Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park. People used these to grind foods for thousands of years here as this particular area was inhabited for at least 3,000 years and probably longer. The mortars are right there to appreciate on a walk around the park. There are so many in various spots. I enjoy thinking about these, and the people who used them, and their descendants living in the Silicon Valley and other places today.
Up close to a two story tall video screen in a lobby.
This current train station building is from 1935, with a train station having been in this space since 1878.
