Mission Impossible
Heading south today we stopped at two of the original Spanish missions, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, and Mission San Antonio de Padua. Let’s get the historical background out of the way. Depending on your viewpoint the missionaries were either devout men who were willing to travel to the far side of the world leaving all the comforts of civilization behind in order to spread their faith, or racist imperialist conquerors who enslaved and imprisoned the Native Americans, and…