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The historic Ione Hotel The beautiful sweeping staircase leading to the upper rooms One of the sitting areas on the second floor Bridal Suite

Ione Hotel

25 West Main Street Ione, California, 95640, United States

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Over the mountains & through the woods to family

A travel blog entry by macysmarti

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 ...

Just in time for the Fiddler's Jamboree!

A travel blog entry by nancykaren

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... and crush will be late this year because of a wet Spring, so we'll probably be crushing in October. My job as assistant winemaker starts tomorrow - I'm going to collect samples and measure Brix (sugar content) to see how the grapes are coming along.

Our trip is complete - no injuries, no unexpected turns (except for places like Arco!) and no complaints from any of us, as far as I know. I'm including some photos of LMR ...

Day 6 - Coloma and the Gold Discovery Site

A travel blog entry by gamiclea

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... 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 ...

Day 6 - Old Placerville and the Gold Bug Mine

A travel blog entry by gamiclea

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... site. We had heard a lot about stamp mills up to this point and even saw some replica models of these machines in action, but this was the real deal. We took a tour of the building and looked at the neat collection of gems and minerals also housed in the building before packing up and heading back on the road for Coloma.

Here's a video of the Mariposa Stamp Mill in action.
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Day 5 - Checking in to Placerville

A travel blog entry by gamiclea

... area to spend the rest of the day relaxing. Angie made a huge dent in our growing dirty laundry pile but running multiple loads while we all swam.

We had a pizza delivered to the pool area and had somewhat of a little picnic out there...it was a great way to mark the end of the day. For the first time on the whole trip, I believe I hit the sack at the same time the kids went down...we needed our rest because the next day was going to be a long and eventful day indeed.
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