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There’s a place near the tiny desert community of Borrego Springs where the journey of imagination between past and present is very short.
Little has changed here except the passage of time since the birth of the first European child in the new frontier of California on a foggy and chilly Christmas Eve more than 200 years ago.
Hikers are most aware of an obscure little First Child Monument marking the location where the 1775 Anza Expedition paused briefly. To me it’s almost a mystical place representing the birth of a great state.
Here in Coyote Canyon the party of 240 soldiers and settlers halted their 1,200-mile journey to “New Spain” while Maria Gertrudis Rivas gave birth to Salvador Ignacio Linares.

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