Greetings From Highway 49

[MouseWife]

It sounds like you are at the Best Western Yosemite Gateway Inn {or something close to that}.

I have a picture in front of that carved statue! LOL We like to stay there, and, the fellow in the restaurant, he was very nice. He was from San Diego area, I forget his name. Not a young chap, but of course, neither am I.

The murals, lovely aren't they? I always take photos of them, that is the start of our trip, the murals in the rooms.

49, ah, I wish we were on that trip!

http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/chinese.html

If you go by this place, I wonder if these places are still intact. When we've gone, I haven't seen anything that seemed visitable. Except right off of the highway, I believe, is this place that may be an old gas station. They sell indian things there, if I am right. We just stopped there to use the restroom as none of the gas stations seemed to have one {when we needed one}. The gentlemen there were nice and they just asked for a donation to use the clean bathrooms. Not a problem!! That place was interesting, too, you go into a yard and that has artifacts laying around.

Are you heading in to Placerville? And from there? Ooo, when you head home, will you be heading by San Jose? I've always wanted to stop here, but never have. Oh, link didn't work. But, 'Brookdale Lodge'. It is near San Jose but not really. Off some beaten path, but, still on a roadway/highway.

Oh, and we've only been once but finally, we went to Fresno Flats. A lot of history there...

http://www.fresnoflatsmuseum.org/ as well as not far from the hotel you are at.

Have a lot of fun and take a lot of pictures!!!

[RStar]

Have fun!

[mom] And stay off the computer, it's nice outside![/mom]

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Mariposa has a small but nice gold museum as well as as few good antique shops.

Oops! Bill just read that over my shoulder. I doubt he'll let me go antiquing.

Originally Posted by MouseWife

It sounds like you are at the Best Western Yosemite Gateway Inn {or something close to that}.

That's the place!

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

Are you heading in to Placerville? And from there? Ooo, when you head home, will you be heading by San Jose? I've always wanted to stop here, but never have. Oh, link didn't work. But, 'Brookdale Lodge'. It is near San Jose but not really. Off some beaten path, but, still on a roadway/highway.

Placerville, yes. We plan to go as far up as Nevada City, then back home through Sacramento. I have a sister near Lodi. We're going to stop by there on the way back.

[MouseWife]

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.