California Day Trip - Mission Santa Clara de Asis

Mission Santa Clara de Asis is the eighth mission of the original 21 California missions. It was established by Father Junipero Serra in 1777. The only mission named after a woman, Clare of Assisi, the historic California mission is now located in Santa Clara University at:

500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050

Total travel distance from Modesto CA to the mission is about 82 miles and takes about 1.5 hours.


More pictures from the day trip is on the Modesto real estate agent's California day trips webpage. The visit to the mission and the pictures were taken in April 2008 as part of my child's fourth grade California Missions project for the Social Studies course.

To find out more about the mission (or to be as smart as a fourth grader in California mission history), please also visit: wikipedia,
Santa Clara University Mission Church History.

Modesto real estate agent is now ready for fifth grade projects, ready to travel and make more day trips / field trips to be smarter than a fifth grader...

Selling Modesto CA Real Estate - St. Joseph Statue Article

I just received a newsletter from my local association of realtors. There is an interesting article about St. Joseph statues:

"According to a new National opinion poll, nearly one-third of American adults (63.2 million people) would consider asking their real estate agent to bury a four-inch statue of St. Joseph in the front yard to help sell their home in today’s sluggish economy.
Of those 63.2 million people, 23.5 million would “absolutely want their agent” to use the symbolic figure to increase the likelihood of selling their property. The kits include a free home listing at www.StJosephStatue.com, where St. Joseph believers have listed for sale more that $2.4 billion in real estate.
The tradition of buying St. Joseph in the earth began hundreds of years ago in Spain, when Sister Teresa of needed land to build convents. She prayed to St. Joseph (the patron saint of the family and household needs) and buried a St. Joseph medal in the ground. The medals evolved into statues, which thousands of home sellers and real estate agents across the country now use as they seek a little “divine intervention” when selling residential real estate."

The article is from the Lodi Association of Realtors.

I would be more than happy to assist my sellers in any way that helps. I believe different cultures have different traditions, and in Chinese culture, there is feng shui...