San Juan Capistrano, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"on my mother’s birthday, it was reported that the swallows had indeed found their way back to Capistrano."

"Normally we go to San Juan Capistrano," she tells me the week before, when I pick up Joachim after school. "But that one’s so touristy and crowded. I have a good friend who works at San Luis Rey and she’ll give us a special tour. We need four parent chaperones and Joachim volunteered you! He told me you love missions!"

"‘I’m making San Juan Capistrano,’ Dakota says. Also, the mission is compared: ‘It’s not a fancy flower‐covered place, like Capistrano.’"

"on the 5 up from San Juan Capistrano."