Blogs from Sacramento, California, United States, North America - page 2

Good travelling so far. Two days from Olympia, WA and we are resting for a long weekend at our daughter's place in Orangevale, CA. I've taken a few walks around here and have included a few pictures from along the American River. Yesterday we went down to the Nimbus Dam fish hatchery and saw many big salmon coming up the fish ladder.... read more

Well, Blogs are like pictures and will never be able to capture the true nature of things. Thus far I have failed at keeping this "blog", if I can even call it that, updated. This is mostly due to the fact that I have not touched a computer until now. I have seen, experienced, and had many thoughts over the last 2 weeks and know now that I will not be able to express them here, or anywhere, in words or photos. None the less, here's a bit to wet your palette:... read more

Horrid Weather, Wonderful Friends We are into the fifth day of our California road trip...and the weather is getting steadily worse! It is actually colder here than in LaConner. (42 when we were out earlier!) We drove down through Washington and Oregon in sun/rain for two days and hit snow in the mountains in Oregon/California, but it did not stick to the ground, thankfully! We got in front of the storm in California, and had sun til mid morning on Friday, when the downpours started. Last night we had wind gusts here around 50 mph...! The good part has been seeing family and friends along the way. We stopped to see Jason and Gabriel in Edmonds and Luke at work on the way through Seattle. We got to my cousin Pam's home by dinner on Thursday. ... read more

We've enjoyed some nice wines in the last couple of days. Yesterday we went to the Napa Valley with Ricky, Rose, Kat and Ricky's sister Agnes. Napa is quite a stylish area, you should really belong to a wine club to enjoy the private tasting rooms, fortunately Agnes is a member of a number of different wine clubs so we got to experience some wine tasting in some exclusive tasting rooms. We visted three wineries - Rutherford Hill, Franciscian and Robert Mondavi (the spelling may be wrong), the wines are a liitle different from Australia, as a rule the reds are a bit lighter and they don't do too many whites. One of the main varieties is a Zinfandel, it's a light red that varies from quite drinkable to "let's try the next one". They also ... read more

Donna & I decided we would take the AMtrak from Lodi to Sacramento to meet John & Patrica Baldridge for lunch. The ride was about 40 minutes, so we thought we should have a drink-Donna had a red wine and I had a beer. John & Patricia were there waiting for us. We had a nice lunch at the Delta King and then we walked around Old Sacramento for a few hours. The weather was nice and it was very enjoyable. We took the train back to Lodi and guess what, it was raining in Lodi. We walked back to the house in the rain. It was exhilirating .... read more