January 1952 New California Feb. 1 Left San Francisco at 4:30am in my Ford truck. Drove south on U.S. Highway #101 to Paso Robles. Then east along Highway 46 to Watson and south to Bakersfield (Highway 99) through Los Angeles to Fullerton where I parked car in an orange grove just off the highway. Retired at 4:30pm. Feb. 2 Up at 6:30, continued along 101 toward San Diego. Stayed at La Jolla and talked inside [illegible] [illegible] Stopped at the San Diego Museum of Natural History and talked a few minutes with Lawrence Henry. He mentioned having "many exotic items" in the collection - after leaving San Diego I drove north to Tijuana, arriving there at 8:50 pm. It is 10 min. to before the border closed (except for Henry). He was gone seeing San Diego. The and support center were. However, according to a label in the San Diego Museum exotic items were formerly common around San Diego and seen in Balboa Park. One around San Diego is found extensively; native population grew. At the Mexican border I passed through without inspection being ordered to buy a tourist card in Ensenada.