SF BAY AREA DAY TRIP ADVENTURE

Destination Mare Island, Vallejo

Tour Mare Island, explore the Mare Island Museum, and visit the Spirit Ship

This is part of a series of family-oriented day trip outings around the San Francisco Bay Area I look forward to enjoying with my kids once social distancing and shelter in place isn’t the norm any longer.

Photo by Laurel and Michael Evans on Unsplash

Destination: Mare Island

1. Tour Mare Island
2. Explore The Mare Island Museum
3. Visit The Spirit Ship

I should start today’s adventure by saying I haven’t visited Mare Island, but it’s been on my to-visit list for ages.

Tour Mare Island

• https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwiibayarea/mar.HTM
• https://thebolditalic.com/mare-island-photography-part-1-7daf0c48bbf2
• http://www.visitvallejo.com/about-vallejo/mare-island-history
• https://vallejomuseum.net/

By Eugene Zelenko — Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16015333

This site has a long naval history. Mare Island was the first US Navy base on the…