> Mission de Alcala in the valley A long time ago, and for a couple years, I lived next to the stadium there and regularly bought meat from the Iowa meat farms

> Mission de Alcala in the valley A long time ago, and for a couple years, I lived next to the stadium there and regularly bought meat from the Iowa meat farms butcher -- I did not even know Mission de Alcala existed or the areas history until today! (thanks for the post) And I drove past it all the time. These days thats the kind of historical site I travel around to visit; some variation of the phrase youth is wasted on the young comes to mind.