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Travel Blogs from Sacramento

Hillbilly ville

A travel blog entry by usacoasttocoast

... a high point when the Sacremento Sheriffs department arrive, not sure what they came for (we decided it was a drug raid) Liz and I offered to be searched by Montgomery, see photos, but had to settle for the picture. Getting ****** now looking forward to our week of luxury in the hotel on Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco, a bath at last and a real bed for my oh so aching ...

Environmental side of travel

A travel blog entry by kalifornier

Here is my takeaway from Asia travel: DO NOT buy any ivory products. When I traveled around China I saw numerous such shops; a recent Nat Geo investigation revealed 90% of ivory used in China is coming from slaughtered African elephants and then smuggled into the country. Please don't be a part of this Blood Ivory trade. And ...

We made it!

A travel blog entry by bobstacytrips

... to a United Airlines desk. They reissued us new boarding passes and told us that the plane was boarding now. We found a sign leading us to our gate. It said that it would take 20 minutes to get to our gate from there. We hustled again to catch our plane. We were one of the last people to ge on the plane. We then sat there for over 45 minutes because they forgot to fuel the plane! We finally left for San ...

My trip begins

A travel blog entry by buddybeagle

Got to Sacramento Airport at 6:00 am, the wife dropped me off. Thank you honey! :-)

At about 6:40am I was waiting at the gate to board my American Airlines flight to LAX at 7am. Found out the flight had been cancelled. No reason was offered. SO, myself and 50 other passengers had to schlep our way down to the baggage terminal, get our luggage and then go back up to the ticketing agents.

The ticketing agent ...

All That Glitters

A travel blog entry by burtonll

... fled Europe, leaving behind his wife, his children, and a lot of debt. He traded and swindled his way across North America, landing on the American River in 1839. He had big dreams in this wild, wide-open land; he’d build an empire, become a wealthy man.

He built a fort; for his labor force using local Indians and Hawaiians he’d brought with him from a visit there. Inside the fort were carpenter and ...