Sacramento, United States Travel Blogs

Stalking Arnold (the Governator)
Aug 21, 2006 (5 photos)

... Therefore, instead of heading to Yosemite Valley to explore el captain I cut my losses and made my way slowly back to Sacramento. I then discovered how difficult it was to get health care in the US. Apart from going to emergency rooms in hospitals and ...

Home Sweet Home!
Jun 25, 2008

 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.
Sep 2, 2008 (31 photos)

... 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
Aug 15, 2005

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
Aug 3, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 able ...

From sea to shinning sea
Sep 3, 2008

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 =) =)
Dec 27, 2007

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 a  ...

Sacramento - Day 3
Sep 17, 1998 (6 photos)

... 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 could ...

Preparation is in full swing
May 21, 2008

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 ...

Sacramento, 2 or 3 nights
Aug 20, 2007

To follow....

Greetings from sacramento again: we were ...
Dec 3, 2002 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

Day 48 - Road to the Oracle
Jul 5, 2008 (8 photos)

... and could feel the comfortable environment she created when interacting with her. Daniel even referred to her as the "Oracle" of Sacramento (Matrix reference). I can see why. I learned that the youth of the SGI in Sacramento started to stand up and take ...

The Wine Country
Oct 16, 2008 (2 photos)

... drove from the barren hills of Nevada into the green(er) valleys of California - it was quite a dramatic change of scenery. Sacramento is the capital of California & has, just like Washington & all the other state capitals, a white domed Capitol building ...

The first bump in the road....
Jul 23, 2007

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
May 7, 2007

... 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, Lexi

San Francisco to Sacramento
Sep 15, 1998

... ) 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
Sep 16, 1998 (2 photos)

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
Jun 3, 2007 (5 photos)

... . 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 citizen of the ...

Train, train
Sep 26, 2007 (16 photos)

Jumped on the overnight sleeper train to Sacramento, was sooo excited to sleep on a train.  It was a really plush experience, we had our own little room, with attendant bringing stuff, a lounge with wine tasting, and a restaurant.  Everyone else ...

Sacramento
May 5, 2006 (1 photos)

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 ...

Stop off
Aug 9, 2009

Stayed the night

Visiting friends in Sacramento
Apr 5, 2007 (6 photos)

... 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 days ...

Sacramento California
Mar 30, 2005 (1 photos)

... . 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 the ...

The Big Push
Sep 27, 2008

... . And what exactly is a long drive for us....650 miles or 1.050 kms in one go, practically non-stop until we reached Sacramento to collapse in a motel room with chinese take away. We actually had aimed to do Salt Lake City to Reno, but just when we ...

Doors with bears, handrails of gold
Jun 10, 1992

... ; 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 zone

I left my heart in SF and went to Lake Tahoe..
Jun 23, 2008

Stopping off in Sacramento

Sacramento - Day 4
Sep 18, 1998

... 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 to ...

Sacramento - Day 5
Sep 19, 1998

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 49 - Young Pioneers
Jul 6, 2008 (5 photos)

Day 49 Again, its great to be so warmly accepted where ever I go. But Sacramento and Diana's home felt a little bit different. I felt like belonged her for some strange reason. Like a second home, like I lived another life as a Sacramento-ite. Diana ( ...

Day 50 - Sac in Action
Jul 7, 2008 (4 photos)

... the table, I did an audio interview with the 5 of us about what we see for the future in the Youth Division, especially in Sacramento. This place is a diamond in the rough for youth standing up. I picked up Diana and we went to the second service. This ...