Olive oil tasting Jely Belly plant tour

I was impressed, very few hang overs today and we all survived margarita night!

We left this morning and went olive oil tasting, really. I've never heard of it, things are different here in CA. After that we went on a Jelly Belly tour. This was really outstanding, much better than the Budweiser tour. Excellent tour. Lots of pictures of famous people made from Jelly Belly beans. We had lunch there following the tour and then went shopping at the large gift shop. We bought several items and lots of Belly Flops, jelly bean seconds. This evening we had the farewell pot luck supper. Lots of real good stuff to devour. After last night and today's activities we all crashed early, about 8pm.

Six Flags & Margarita contest

Today we all started the day making bag omlets, it was the first time for Judy and I and they were good! Then all the Bean & Beer Rally members went to Six Flags amusement and marine park. Ca is expensive, $15 just to park the truck. Judy and I passed up all the roller coasters for our favorite ride which we did twice.....the parking lot tram. We went to see the killer whale show which was very good. On the way home we stopped at Camping World for a few odds and ends. Back at the CG we had the great margarita contest between Stacy and Rich. These two have been talking up their drinks for the last couple months and when it was over Stacy was the champ. Dave and I then brought out our beer margaritas. We based ours on Jody's Chiquita Rita Margarita recipe. I will have to say our beer margaritas were as popular as the others and gone just as fast.

Vacaville CA at the Beer & Bean Rally

Friday morning we made the short 30 mile back road drive to Vacaville for the Beer & Bean Rally. There were already about eight HitchHikers there with another eight due to arrive. We spent Friday meeting friends we had made on the Internet forum and socializing. Friday we order lots of pizza to go with the beer. Saturday more socializing and in the afternoon we toured the Budweiser plant before returning for a burger cookout. Judy and I are having a great time with all these like minded folks and she's getting lots of info for out trip up to OR & WA in May and June.

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!