Over the past six years now I have traveled throughout the State
with a new perspective. Not like I used to… before I would
fly through little burgs and towns without taking a second look. I
have always traveled for work but never took the time to
“see” where I was going. I would hit a town do my work
and go back to the hotel and sit in my room clicking the clicker
until the wee hours of the morning.
Now, every new town I pass through is an awakening. I thrive on
the new treasures I see… monuments I have whizzed by a
hundred times in my life are now new nuggets of knowledge, vista
points I passed without a blink are postcard images burned in my
mind, and side streets of towns are secret treasures that only non
tourists find. Geocaching has made me stop and smell the roses. In
addition, in creating these puzzles and placing these caches it has
allowed me to meet new geocachers who help sponsor my caches in
their backyard.
Hopefully, this little puzzle will help enlighten you on the
County of San Diego and maybe make you “stop and smell the
roses” too.
N 33° 08.ABC
A = San Diego County was named for San Diego
Bay, which had been rechristened in 16(A)2 by Sebastián
Vizcaíno in honor of the Franciscan St. Didacus of Alcalá, known in
Spanish as San Diego de Alcalá de Henares, and whose name was borne
by Vizcaíno's flagship.
B = During the later part of the 19th
Century, there were numerous changes in the boundaries of San Diego
County, when various areas were sliced off to form newer counties.
The most recent changes were the creation of Riverside County in
1893 and Imperial County in 190(B).
C = European settlement in what is now San
Diego County began with the founding of the Mission San Diego de
Alcalá, by Spanish pioneers, in 176(C).
Checksum ABC = 16
W 116° 05.DEF
D = Cabrillo National Monument is located at
the southern tip of the Point Loma Peninsula in San Diego and
commemorates the landing of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo at San Diego
Bay on September 28, 154(D).
E = Borrego Springs has a zip code in San
Diego County of 9200(E).
F = San Diego County has 1(F)
federally-recognized Indian reservations. This is more than any
other county in the United States.
Checksum DEF = 14
Some other interesting tidbits about San Diego
County:
The County Seat is the City of San Diego for San Diego
County.
The 1858 San Diego hurricane was a very rare California
hurricane. It is the only known tropical cyclone to impact
California as a hurricane, although other systems impacted
California as tropical storms.
The San Diego Main Post Office represents ZIP Code 92128. It
is located in the Carmel Mountain neighborhood of San Diego and was
built in 1992. This Post Office is approximately 1,300,000 square
feet and one of the largest inland post offices in the United
States not affiliated with an airport in any way.
The three largest sectors of San Diego's economy are defense,
manufacturing, and tourism, respectively.
San Diego is the fifth-wealthiest city in the United States
and the 9th safest city in the top 10 list of safest cities in the
U.S.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
I would like to thank SKILLET for
being my sponsor for County Line – San Diego and for
tufbill for helping me Beta Test
this gem.
As always, enjoy.