7-9-17

We got up early and headed south to Manzanar historic site. The air war very thick and smoggy. The result of wildfires in Sequoia National Forest. Manzanar was so remote and really inhospitable. At 9:00 AM it was already 80 degrees. It seems so beautiful with the mountains in the background but I can imagine having been interned here because of the fear that people had after Pearl Harbor. It had some really great exhibits and the fact that some of the buildings remain gives you a sense of how people lived. We took the auto tour and you get a real sense of the size of this 10,000 person encampment. 

Next we headed south and west to the home of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers organization. It's nice to see that we are preserving more recent history as well. We ate a picnic lunch in the shade before touring the home which had a great pictorial exhibit showing the movement for farm workers rights. 

On to Anaheim where we faced the LA area traffic to make it to our hotel 2 blocks from Disneyland. This was our third time at the parks and we had a good sense of where to go. We headed in to downtown Disney to check out the shops and people watch. We headed back to the hotel so we could rest up for a day in the parks on Monday.