Frequently dusty and dry, especially during the harmattan season when the dust blows down from the Sahara Desert. The people are friendly and always have some time to talk and share their food.
Home ballpark for the Winnipeg Goldeyes minor league baseball team.
This is one of El Dorado County's oldest wineries, located in Placerville, CA. It is also one of the most picturesque wineries in the area.
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.
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.
Mitchel Field is a former Army/Air Force base located in the center of Nassau County. This 1,200-acre base was shut down in 1960 and declared surplus property by the U.S.
This saw mill is a replica of the saw mill owned by John Sutter in 1848. This is the place where gold was discovered in California which started the gold rush eventually leading to California's statehood.
This is a small, boutique winery located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California. The winery is owned and operated by the Hildebrand family.
The Cosumnes River Preserve is located between Sacramento and Stockton, in the heart of Northern California's lush Central Valley. It encompasses more than 46,000 acres.
The Cosumnes River is quite small (80 miles) but it is the only remaining unregulated river on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadas.
Nestled in the northern hills of Vietnam exists one of the best ethnic markets in all of Southeast Asia! On Sundays, the ethnic minorities from the surrounding villages and hills come by foot, by motorscooter, by horse, and by water buffalow for their chance to socialize, eat, drink, smoke, get a haircut, and buy produce and meat for the next week.