Greetings From Highway 49

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Oh, finally one that I can squeeze through.

That's right.. I forgot your package was.... Alarming.

Originally Posted by JWBear

We went in a gold mine! It was cool (literally)!

I love going in old mines that don't collapse on you ! Did you see any bats ?

[JWBear]

AHHHH!! BATS!!

[Mousey Girl]

That saddens me about Coulterville. I remember getting to sit at the bar in the Jefferson hotel and drink sasparilla. We also got a neat tour of the hotel, but they wouldn't let us ride up the staircase in the lift chair.

[JWBear]

Made it to Sac Town. Hotel room is teeny!

Full daily update later....

[innerSpaceman]

Your mission: Find Sac Town Chronic!! and bring him back alive.


(or, ya know, just find some Sac Town chronic and get really freaking high.)










or both.

[Kevy Baby]

I am really enjoying this pseudo-blog!

[MouseWife]

So what hotel are you staying at in Sactown?

{when we stayed there, we stayed out of the town, I forget the name of the place but it was only minutes from SacTown...}

Ooo, have fun today! I hope everything is open for you, the fort, the capital, the old town, etc. etc. etc.

[JWBear]

We're at the La Quinta Inn on Jibboom. Not recomended. Postage stamp sized rooms. Beds made of concrete slabs. Psychotic AC.

yesterday, we went to the Marshall Gold Discovery SHP in Coloma. Kinda cool, but dead on a weekday. We were completely underwhelmed by the actual site of the discovery. You walk down a little trail to a brackish backwater area, and all there is is an old faded interpretive sign.

Some of the rangers, however, were mighty impressive!

We then drove up to Nevada City. We loved it! It's our favorite gold rush town. Very cute.

We're leaving in a few to go see the Capitol Building. (Maybe we'll see Ahnold!)

[JWBear]

We went to the state capitol building this morning. We walked around Capitol Park first. Beautiful. We went in and toured the building. We were there when Assembly and Senate leaders were giving a press conference regarding the budget crisis. Ahnold, we were told, was not in the building.

While we were leaving, I tripped and fell just outside the door. I fell on my left hip. Fortunately, I’m well padded…

We had lunch at a nearby restaurant while I waited for my hip to stop hurting; then we walked around the area. We visited the Stanford Mansion, but didn’t take the hour long tour.

After returning to the hotel for a rest, we drove down to my sister’s house near Lodi. My niece and her two sons (who live nearby) where there also. We all went out to dinner at a very good teppanyaki place. (Who knew you could find good teppanyaki in Lodi?!)

My brother-in-law’s father passed away recently. He and the stepson he lived with were both horders. My sister and b-i-l are still clearing out the house. It's completely uninhabitable, and they are going to donate it to the fire department for them to burn down. They gave us a tour of the place. You could tell that it once was a beautiful old house. Such a shame.

[JWBear]

Ok… Last boring travelogue (from this trip, at least). I’ll make it short as I’m sure you’re all getting tired of them.

We drove over to Sutter’s Fort. Met the most adorable reenactor at the front gate. I forgot his name, but he was yummy!

We loved Sutter’s Fort. Fascinating place. I’d love to go back when it’s full of reenactors. (There was just one this morning – Mr Yummy.)

Afterwards, we headed back across the city towards Old Sacramento. On the way, we started seeing rainbow flags. We discovered the gay section of town! We stopped for lunch at a micro brewery there.

Spent all afternoon in Old Sacramento. Saw the city history museum there, but alas… we didn’t have time to see the railroad museum.

Came back to the hotel; tired and sore. (My left hip started to bother me. Obviously, I’m not completely over yesterdays fall.) Had dinner at a nice seafood restaurant near the hotel.

We head home tomorrow.