Tag: “Southern California”

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  1. Isleton Joes

    Isleton Joe's is located in the small Sacramento Delta town of Isleton. (Isleton is known for crawdads and has a crawdad festival in June.)

    The restaurant was charming, clean and busy.

  2. Elk Grove Brewery

    This restaurant, previously a General Store, located in the charming Old Elk Grove, is also a brewery of micro beers. The decor was charming and displayed several large, working copper beer making containers.

    When we got there around 6:00, a live band was setting up.

  3. State Capitol Building

  4. Mono Lake State Reserve

    A massive saline lake in the sierras, Mono Lake has no outlet and is the natural collection point for all of the salts and minerals that wash down out of the mountains. This high mineral concentration has over the many years formed giant tufa, or calcium carbonate spires that jut up out of the lake like stalagmites.

  5. Chinatown

    The largest Chinatown outside of Asia.

  6. Halfdome

    Landmark granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California USA. One of the most recognizable and visited sights in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

  7. Preston Castle

    This "castle", located in Ione, CA, was built between 1890 and 1894 specifically to be used as a correctional facility for young boys. It was in use until 1960 when a new facility was built nearby.

  8. Bay to breakers

    Started as a race through San Francisco in 1912 "Bay to Breakers" has become to more than a sports event. It has grown to a huge party throughout the whole city that no one should miss, when being in the bay area on the third sunday of may.

  9. Stearns Wharf

  10. Club Quarters in San Francisco

    If you can't afford a cruise, set sail for a weekend at San Francisco's Club Quarters. This Financial District hotel's low ceilings and metal swinging doors give you the illusion of being booked into a ship's interior cabin.