Sacramento, Citrus Heights,& Folsom CA

Hi Everyone,

Yesterday and today were a mix of chaos and confusion. Not to complain or anything....but it seems we had a run of unusual luck regarding a few things. The motorhome decided it was going to blow some breaker that controls the plug-ins for the front living room area. That means we can't use our printer, or charge our phones or use our latte machine or our Vita Mix "Darth" and all the comforts like plugging in our computer. Can you imagine how others might be suffering? Anyway, it adds to the lost feeling one gets in a big city like Sacramento. It reminds us that we do not love the rush, push, frantic feel of the freeways where people seem to have the need to make you go faster and faster while getting to the same place at the same time. I'm sure it doesn't help that we have no idea where we are going more than 90% of the time since our GPS in the Honda thinks none of the roads we are on even exist. It does require a huge amount of loving kindness and gentle patience with each other to get from one place to the next.

Yesterday we headed to Old Downtown Sacramento because it was recommended by the sweet 81 year old receptionist here at the delux graveled Expo RV site within ear shot and blaring lights from the horse drawn carriage racing that was going on till late last night. So we headed downtown. Besides there being no parking for most people except for me, since I manifest parking places with ease, we parked and walked around an old western sort of tourist trap with trinket stores and a choo choo train with a cranky couple of train engineers who groweled at people who walked in front of the trains as they were changing tracks. We were pleased to leave that area and headed toward the Del Webb area of Citrus Heights where we had heard they had a new adult development called "The Club". We looked at those and felt they were very nice for the money, but still not wanting to be in this area, didn't pay too much attention to them. It was still fun and we finished the evening at a Vietnamese place for dinner and that was good too.

Today the GPS was really being odd. After some running around in Sacramento, we headed toward a new housing development to the "south"??? of here. Gosh, I am turned around so not sure which direction we went. They were another builder but not as nice as Del Webb.

We really wanted to go to Folsom Prison today so we started our morning listening to Johnny Cash and his song I just happened to have on my Ipod. We layed in bed and listened to Folsom Prison Blues before we got out of bed....maybe that's what made the GPS coocoo. We headed toward Folsom.... the other direction.....with our trusty GPS and got lost many times over while discovering a very nice area of Folsom, California. Lots of new developments and rolling hills. Still not our cup of tea...but worth the look. After getting lost we made it to Folsom Prison. We (see photo) found the prison sign we thought was for the Folsom prison. We wanted to see the Folsom Prison Museum which we did eventually find sort of, but it was closed by that time. There are two of them in case you ever want to know. WE did get to take a distant shot of Folsom Prison which now is not a maximum security prison because they built a new prison near there that is the maximum security one. Talking to the guard we learned the inmates get a point system and the worse they are rated means the harder it is for them to get along with others. The harder they are to get along with, the higher the security they need. I took a photo of the prison towner, the tall walls and then a sign for the closed museum which was really not the museum we were looking for anyway. After a long day of being lost we headed to a restaurant called "Fats" Asian Bistro. It was different than what we have in Burlington, that's for sure. Claude ate something so hot and spicy even he had trouble with it and he eats anything hot. I ordered Dim Sum which I had no idea about, but turns out it is little dumpling type appetizers. They were unusual but I loved the soup the most. (See photos)

Tomorrow we are off to Petaluma off of HWY 101, to stay so we can check out the Napa Valley and maybe some of San Francisco, Fairfax, and find the Cafe Grateful in San Rafael that was recommended by my friend Michael. Love to all!