Interstate 280 in California, which winds north-south next to the Santa Cruz Mountains on the eastern edge of the San Andreas Fault, honors Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, who founded the California missions.
Whenever we traveled along this so-called “World’s Most Beautiful Freeway,” we'd come upon a sandstone statue on a hill next to the freeway’s northbound lanes, just past the Highway 92 intersection in Hillsborough.
The wife spotted it one day and calls it “The Monk Statue.”
In reality, it’s a 26-foot-high statue of Father Serra kneeling in his robe and pointing westward over the freeway.
Once we knew it was there, we couldn’t help glancing at Father Serra every time we passed the statue.
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