Monte Verde Inn Foresthill
18841 Foresthill Road Foresthill, California, 95631, United States
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... and prosperous life. This past week, my family and I went to the concentration camp where many jewish people died and suffered and starved at the hands of the nazi S.S. regime, my grandfather included. At the age of 17, almost a full grown man, my grandfather a bald lump of skin and bone, weighed a mere 80 pounds, less than my 10 year old brother. When my dad took us, we saw where our grandfathers barracks had been, where he had slept after a full day of torture and pain. It ...
Over the mountains & through the woods to family
We are spending a nice long visit with David's brother John and hi family. Their weather here is more like Indian summer than fall. Linda says they still have the lettuce producing from the Spring and the tomatoes just started to ripen recently.Once again we get to do all the household chores and ...
Day 6 - River Swimming and Dinner in Auburn
We regained our footing on the 49 in the town of Cool and then headed north to hit our last stop on the 49. the city of Auburn.
While I was planning the route for this road trip I had a discussion with a co-worker of mine that had grown up in Northern California and told me about a great little swimming spot that he had fond memories of while his Dad took him on road trips along the 49. The middle and north forks of the American river meet ...
Day 6 - Picking Berries and visiting Georgetown
... road that read "U-pick Blackberries and Blueberries" and we quickly pulled over and decided to put in a quick detour to pick berries...especially since the boys just couldn't get enough of the wild blackberries by Sutter's Mill. We pulled up the driveway to a personal residence and a very nice woman greeted us and told us that we could get some pails and head to the back yard and go to town on the blueberry and blackberry bushes. ...
Day 6 - Coloma and the Gold Discovery Site
... dirt in less time. At the same time, merchants raised the prices of mining tools, clothing, and food to astronomical levels. A miner had to find an ounce of gold a day just to break even.
Digging for gold from early dawn until dusk was backbreaking work. The hope of "striking it rich" became an obsession with many of the Forty-Niners. Stories of others who had found their fortune in gold kept driving them on. A streak of bad luck could always ...


