Gribblenation

While recently in San Diego I drove a portion of California State Route 163 which is otherwise known as the Cabrillo Freeway.  CA 163 is largely known for the scenic freeway stretch through Balboa Park and being a historic section of US Route 395. The present CA 163 is the second highway to carry said route number.  The initial CA 163 was an old unrelinquished section of US 99 of San Fernando Road between Colorado Boulevard in Glendale to   Figueroa Street in Los Angeles.  The initial CA 163 was deleted by 1965 but does make an appearance on the 1964 State Highway Map City Insert. 1964 State Highway Map City Insert The section CA 163 was enacted in 1969.  Current CA 163 is routed on a 11 mile designation of what was US 395 on the Cabrillo Freeway between I-15 and I-5 in San Diego.  The legislative designation swapping from US 395 to CA 163 on the Cabrillo Freeway can be seen by comparing the 1969 to 1970 edition.  Even though the legislat...

Back in 2012 I was on something of a National Monument kick and visited Cabrillo National Monument at Point Loma in San Diego on a foggy day.  What turned out to be something of a bust for a National Monument visit in 2012 turned out to be useful in regards to tracking down former California State Route 209 in 2018. Cabrillo National Monument was created in 1949 on the southern tip of Point Loma to commemorates the 1542 Spanish Expedition landing by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.  Typically Point Loma offers some really nice views of downtown San Diego, San Diego Bay, and Naval Air Station North Island but it wasn't happening with the coastal fog. Since I was at Point Loma I decided on checking out the Old Point Loma Lighthouse which was in service from 1855 to 1891. There was also a series of Coastal Batteries from the WWII era at Fort Rosecrans that were worth a look as well.  Odd to think that the threat of a Japanese invasion was a very real possibility...