Sacramento Trip

A villager exploring unmapped area in the ages of empire game. That’s how I felt during the weekend trip. After being long time here(?!!!), there was not much, I visited apart from the guest house, Wal-Mart and the Pakistani store to buy Indian goods. There will be a plan in place by Wednesday for weekend, but never worked out. Some times project reasons, some time personal reasons. Last weekend, weekend plan was again cancelled for the 79.56th time since my room mates’ manager is not good and he hates spending time with his family.

Villager (that’s me) started his exploration on his own with pocketful of bits (Maps / directions). Sunday morning started to Sacramento which is 10 miles from here, my current place. It’s really nice to see there are lots of information available everywhere in the downtown with neat sign boats. Never had a single problem nor enquired with anyone about the directions. First to start with went to a Church (Chinese one?), then explored every place I could see on the way to Capitol. Bunch of information available near to the church about the Downtown area and Old Sacramento. Information is in the form of free brochures. Arnold was not working on that weekend, hence couldn’t meet him in Capitol building. Had lunch in ChinaTown – checked and crosschecked with them that the food doesnot have anyother “meat” other than chicken, in particular - pork and beef.

Old Sacramento is the top visitor spot in the region, attracting 5 million visitors annually and this city keeps the California Gold Rush era alive (as overheard). Apart from the horse cart ride, most fascinating one is the bikes that are available for ride. Mostly Harley Davidson ones, with engine sound tuned on. Couple of modern bikes likes Suzuki, Honda, too available. And make a note of this guys, never visit the Sacramento river area when you are hungry. Roasted Crabs smell makes you forget everything and your next target will be Joe’s Crab shack. Delta King boats offers you ride over the Sacramento river. Two bridges opens up when these huge boats cross (Why they didn’t calculate the height of these boats during construction of those bridges?!!!) Reached home by 8PM.

More information is here:

http://www.discovergold.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento

Tour of Old Sacramento (Not through my lenses – Thanks to the unknown person)

And finally this is how a villager explores in AOE: