I will have to see where Nevada City is.

Cool! I actually really like that little place. And, don't forget to take your room key to get the discount on breakfast. ;)

Sacramento~I think you are lucky to go when you are. When we went, it was late Saturday, left early Sunday, I think. The places we wanted to go, like, the fort {I forget the name} were closed. We had wanted to take our son all over to educational but fun places.

Aw, I hope you get to go antiquing!!! {sp} Such fun!! I think it was in Jamestown we stopped and checked out a few places as we stopped for the boy to pan for gold, right there on the main street.

Everywhere, it is beautiful. Whether it be the landscape or the looking at a building and realizing it is so old and it's features that make it so.

Have fun and, yea, limit your computer use but still keep in touch with us and let us know what is going on. Well, what you wanna. :p

When I was a kid, we had a house in Coulterville. I loved spending my summer vacations up there.

Highway 49 Revisited

We left Oakhurst this morning. First stop Mariposa. Pretty, but all the antique stores were closed. Saw the museum Cool.

After a tortuous and winding trip trough the mountains, Coulterville was next. Quaint, but kinda run down. Again, everything was closed.

We stopped in Sonora for lunch. We ate in a little hole-in-the-wall named Miner’s Café. Good food, cool antiquey decor, and very friendly staff. Highly recommended. We prowled around town for a bit. The stores were open!

Next was Angel’s Camp; home of those famous jumping frogs. The site of Mark Twain’s cabin is supposed to be just outside of town, but we couldn’t find it. We did, however, pass the Glory Hole Recreation Area and the adjacent Glory Hole Shopping Center! The town of Angel’s Camp is cool. They have plaques in the sidewalks honoring record winning frogs, kind of an Amphibian Walk Of Fame. We were surprised to see several art deco buildings in town.

We almost missed Mokelumne Hill. The main part of town (not that there’s much town) is just off the highway. When they coined the term “sleepy little town”, they were thinking of Mokelumne Hill. Again, nothing was open. The only person we saw was one of the locals who came over to talk to us about my Mini. He has one the same color....

Jackson was a disappointment, and we didn’t stop.

Our last stop of the day (Before Placerville; where we are now) was our favorite town; Sutter Creek. Very quaint. As it was starting to get late, we didn’t stay long. But we did get ice cream at the old Ice Cream Parlor on the main drag. Yum… ice cream!

The stretch from Sutter Creek to Placerville was my favorite of the whole day. Part of what made it fun was that we had Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps in the CD player. It was the perfect soundtrack!

In Jackson, did you see the "historic" little strip or just the part visible from 49?

Not that the "historic" part is very good (when we're in the area we usually end up spending 30 minutes walking the strip and then move on).

*Biting Tongue*

Must... not... comment...

Yes, apparently they ate at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the wrong town.

I wonder if a lot of places were closed because of it being a weekday? What is so sad to me is how the economy has hit everyone. A lot of stores closed down and others made to only be open a few days, mostly the weekends. We ran into that all over. As well as towns shutting down early.....

Oh, I forgot you guys have the mini!!! OOOOOO!!!! I so want to rent one for a road trip. But, with 3 kids, it ain't too practical, eh?

Sutter Creek~is this the place with the big gold mine? We also panned for gold there {if it is the place}.

Did you find {buy} any antiques? :D All I bought on our trip was a silver ring.....in a gold mining town. Oh well.

You {Lashbear and Alex} are too funny.

We saw it as we sped by. We decided it didn't look interesting enough to stop.

Oh, why not? We made plenty of comments!

You could get 3 very small kids in the back.

Yes, Sutter Creek has the gold mine you can visit, but it had already closed for the day.