The road that we are staying on while in California is the El Camino Real. This road runs the length of the state and was originally built by Spanish missionary’s hundreds of years ago. The road allowed the missionary’s to move from one mission to the next.

School kids in California are taught about the El Camino Real. It means the Real Road.

Not only did school kids learn about the road, there were required to make scale models of the missions alone the road. It got to be a joke that the fathers were the ones building the scale models. In fact, scale models of the missions could be obtained at garage sales just in case you were inept at building such things.