Old Sacramento & Railroad Museum

Today we went with Trish & Dave to Old Sacramento & the CA State Railroad Museum. Old Sacramento is a quaint old time village in downtown Sacramento. We also spent a few hours at the train museum. We took the back roads into Sacramento and that was impressive. We traveled on the levees and took a free ferry across the river or channel, whatever it was. There are LOTS of vineyards in this area. On the way home we stopped in Isleton and a local saloon, we had more fried asparagus which was very good.

Fosters

Tuesdays highlight was the ladies went shopping in the afternoon while Dave and I relaxed and tested our chairs. Our excitement was the Bud truck grounding out the trailer when he was leaving the RV Park. We, along with a few others, offered to help him lighten his load.

Wednesday evening 9 Haulin' HitchHikers and 3 others got together at Fosters in Rio Vista for supper. We all had a good time.

Rio Vista

Today we didn't do too much. We did spend an hour or two planning with Dave & Trish going to OR & WA and then east across the top of the US. We also want to see how close we'll get to Medicine Hat, AL to see my cousin Dave. We did drive into a local town, Rio Vista to check out a shirt store, Dave was the only purchaser. After that we walked to the end of Main Street where there's a monument to Humphrey the Humpback whale. Humphrey swam up the Sacramento River twice in 1985 and had to be helped back to the ocean. We stopped at a nice Italian resturant for supper which was very good. We were considering joining the Moose so we could use their facilities for economical camping so we walked around the downtown Rio Vista Moose to check one out. I don't think we'll join. I have also posted a picture of a typical house that's across the road & leevy from the delta water. Many are built on stilts so they can see the river and probably keep them dry if there should ever be a flood. If there were to be a break in the leevy many many homes would be flooded. How this part os CA doesn't have earthquakes.

Stockton Channel Cruise

Yesterday we relaxed all day, our excitement was sitting by the delta and watching the boats for a couple hours. Today we went to Stockton and took a 1 1/2 hour boat ride from downtown.

We had lunch on the river before we left and had a good time. It was hot.....94 degrees out there!

Rio Vista

Today Dave & Trish guided us around the local area, across private levees, past the flock of sheep and sheep dogs, the boat that's going nowhere, the road with the askew drawbridge and Rio Vista. While in Rio Vista we stopped at the local emporium. The emporium, Fosters Bighorn, is well know for 300 mounted animals, 95% shot by the former owner, a bootlegger who bought the bar when he was chased away and changed his name. There must have been big $$$$ in bootlegging and owning a bar after prohibition huh?

Isleton, CA

We made the 160 mile trip today and arrived about 1:30. Dave & Trish were here to greet us and we have the adjacent campsite. It's great to see them, the last time was in Hollister MO last fall. After chatting we started testing margarita recipes for the Beer & Bean rally next week. We walked across the street to the marina for cocktails and a snack then returned, Trish had made an excellent chicken chili for supper. We continued working on refining the margarita recipe some more and started talking about our summer and winter plans so we ensure our paths will often cross.

Coarsegold, Yosemite & Clayton

I'm baaack! Sunday we went to church and they remembered us as "the Michigan folks". I watched the races and Judy did the laundry here at the CG. We also cleaned the trailer carpet this weekend. Sunday evening we played "California rummy" with Joyce & Arlen from MN who we met in this CG, they have a Discover America HitchHiker, good people. Monday Clayton arrived and Judy made a good pork roast supper and we talked then played 3 handed euchre. Tuesday we drove to Yosemite about noon and spent the afternoon there. We explored some of the places we were last week and went to some new, to us, places. It was solid cloud overcast with the mountain tops in the clouds so it looked quite a bit different from the sunny day last week. We had lunch at a park hotel and returned via a different road. We stopped in Coarsegold for supper then back home for round 2 of euchre. While we were in Yosemite Judy decided to come down with a cold and can't breath. Clayton left about 1pm this afternoon and we will be seeing him next week or the week after while we are in Isleton and Winters.

I have to say one more thing.......today is the first day since we started RVing a year ago that we spent absolutly ZERO dollars or cents!!!!!! We have always had to pay for, at least, a campsite but now with the park membership it's prepaid!!!! Caching caching caching.