Sacramento
Travel Blogs from Sacramento, United States
Stalking Arnold (the Governator)
... my GAP tops to replace those I had jettisoned along the way. We ended the day in Davis, a small college town west of Sacramento towards San Francisco, where we laid into some much needed Thai sustenance. On Sunday I caught the Amtrak train through the ...
Home Sweet Home!
Yes, well... with all the progress thats been made with technology and what not, it seems like every corporate meeting I go to, they say something like, "With our new eTech, you will be able to sell our widgets from a sailboat across the globe!" ...
And then ... we went back home.
... normal life. For sure, the best part of this whole experience has been the people. Our friends and family HERE IN THE STATES who helped coordinate stuff and greet our foreign guests, the friends and family of our exhange partners in Spain and France, ... ...
Good-bye my love
Well after working with my girl, Jules, for a whole summer together this is our splitting spot for this next year. From here I catch a flight to Bozeman, Montana (of all places) to spend a week tramping through Glacier National Park with my three buds: ...
Exploring Sacramento
... I do stay in this business for a long while, I hope the feeling of awe and gratitude never leave me. I've arrived in Sacramento (after a 2-hr power nap last night and thus slept like a log the entire plane ride! - again, more gratitude that I am ...
From sea to shinning sea
So last Friday was a sad day. I'm sad because I'm leaving my friend who've I've just spent 2 amazing weeks with on the road trip of a life time that is now over! Like many other things in life we all plan and look forward too, it has now happened and is ...
Home of the Governator =) =)
From Tahoe Nicola and Jono went on to Yosemite after dropping me and Nic in Sacramento. Went there to catch up with my good matey Jamie from the Contiki trip I did, was so great do see her she's so much fun!!! Jamie took us on ...
Sacramento - Day 3
... out of the hostel by 10am had a little look around Fort Sutter look around the old solider fort and then walked to Old Sacramento and look around which look like and old country town and went shopping then had lunch and then looked around 5pm till I ...
Preparation is in full swing
Preparation is in FULL swing, as we leave from our perspective states in less than 36 hours. Steve and Brian will leave Sacrament on Thursday night, flying to Vegas, then overnight to Orlando, then to Puerto Rico, arriving in Santo Domingo, the ...
Greetings from sacramento again: we were ...
... hundreds of times in rock art, some of it over a thousand years old, located in numerous sites in southwestern United States deserts and mountains. Often depicted as a humpbacked flute player, this mythic being has survived in recognizable form from ...
Visiting family
We went to visit my preganant sister, she was so cute!! My mom and my cousins were here and we jsut got to hang out a little with my family which was great ...
The first bump in the road....
Day : 1 Miles traveled today so far: 0 Total miles: 0 Hours spent in car today so far: 0 Total hours spent in car: 0 So it turns out that we have to leave a little late. We are about to take off in a few minutes, 2 hours later than our proposed ...
Lexi's Medical Emergency
... around the country! Speaking of old friends, we want you all to feel free to write comments on the travel blog or email us. Tomorrow (May 8) we plan to resume our RV adventure, heading north from Sacramento. Happy Trails for now! Dianne, Rosie, ...
San Francisco to Sacramento
... ) had a shower and waited for the US BUS which didn't pick me up till 9am, I jumped on the Bus and headed off to Sacramento and which only taken 1 and half hours I was in Sacramento the Capital of California at 10.30am I had lunch at subway then I grab my ...
Sacramento - Day 2
Sleep in till 9am then got kicked out of the hostel because it closers from 10am - 2pm, so I looked around Sacramento downtown then went to the Library and got connected to Email for the first time ever and then went to have Lunch and look around the town ...
On Leaving
... these decisions. And for me (Lauren) this trip will make me an immigrant, putting some kind of closing punctuation on my status as a united states-ian and on being a citizen of California, which is in my mind just not the same as being a ...
Train, train
... rough sleeping on the train. No interuptions from Jaws or any other Bond villains. Stayed in a River boat in Sacramento, was great! Didn't tell Gabrielle until we got there that apparantly there was a resident ghost. The ...
Let's go...
Well, lets start at the beginning. Our flight from SFO to Paris was on Thursday the 19th. My parents were kind enough to pay for a hotel room for Guillaume and I so we could take a free shuttle at 3:30 in the morning to the airport. We had a nice dinner ...
Old town Sacramento
Hi everyone, We had a 3 day visit of Sacramento. Took the opportunity to catch up on washing and other boring things like budgeting etc. Our motel was in downtown Sacramento - right next to the Old Town area. Old town Sacramento is like a wild west film ...
Sacramento
Sacramento is the capital of California. A lovely leafy city. Staying with a delightful couple, both primary teachers, and their baby. We get to use the motor home. We got the car fixed here - that was a relief. Yesterday we went to Sutter Fort - and it ...
Visiting friends in Sacramento
... rented our car and drove to Sacramento. My dear friend Linda from high school lives in Yuba City which is about 35 miles north of Sacramento. Linda and I went to high school together a few years back (okay it is WAY more than a few years!). We spent two ...
Day 40 – Relaxing in Sacramento
... option was to escape the chilly Costal California where the temperature was around 60 F. We chose to drive through San Jose towards Sacramento. Even in San Jose it was already over 80 F...and in Sacramento 100 F (38 C)! In Sacramento we were fortunate to ...
Sacramento California
... noisy. But I had a nice walk around the city, including the old town where a lot of 'wild west' buildings have been preserved. The Sacramento river is big and fast-flowing. I'll post a picture of the bridge for the kids. It's the kind where they can lift ...
Doors with bears, handrails of gold
... ; ride riverboats, trains, wagons. At California State University-Sacramento (25,000 students) a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge serves as a footbridge across the river. Sacramento, California Population 435,245 Elevation 25 Pacific time ...
Jelly Belly Gold Rush
... got to the hotel we spent some time in the Jacuzzi, and Steven took us to have some incredible ice cream. California is beautiful, and Sacramento is a nice city. Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and in the 70's which I can't wait for. The day after that, ...
Sacramento - Day 4
... look on the internet and then I look around has Chinese for lunch and walked around downtown plaza then getting very bored with Sacramento and very tired so I went to the movie "Lethal Weapon 4" which was fantastic and funny after the movie I went back ...
Sacramento - Day 5
Got up and had a muffin and a couple of bagels for breakfast then walked down to Old Sacramento where I went shopping I spent my first two hours in a card shop then I check out the Indian shop a bit more shopping then I had an all you can eat pizza and ...
Day of Departure
We are scrambling like some eggs....trying to wrap up and get outta town!!! Finally got a bite to eat at the local Del taco. Dogs are moping around b/c they know we are leaving ...

