I had the eeriest feeling that somehow I had been strangely transported back through time one hundred years or more. With a new awareness I mentally retraced my steps of that morning.
P erhaps the feeling began on the way to class.
I had driven slowly by the fabulous new basilica across the street from Millie's which is being completed next to the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano. That mission, famous for the mysterious return of the swallows each March 19th, is finally getting back a near replica of the wonderful old stone church lost in the earthquake of 1812. Or did it occur as I drove toward class and crossed a time line instead of a railroad track. I felt myself to be back in an era of yesteryear. I entered the timeless world known as Los Rios, which is the heart of the historic district of San Juan Capistrano, California.