I lived in San Angelo when I was young and our family frequently took Saturday or Sunday “drives into the country.” One of our favorite directions was to leave San Angelo and drive southeast through ...

Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park, 144 School St., Santa Cruz; (831) 425-5849, bit.ly/1tpd80G. Driving distance from Los Angeles City Hall: 346 miles northwest. Advertisement.

School children arrived to find red paint splattered across the door of the Santa Cruz mission and graffiti accusing St. Serra of genocide. "When we got to school, everyone was talking about it ...