Sacramento CA

I'm behind in posting this... we're actually leaving the next stop (Bakersfield) as I write. Who said retirees have nothing but time?

Got a neat cache at a rest stop on the way here...

...that "extra" fence post on the right is the cache. The top lifts off.

We stayed at the RV park annexed to the CalExpo site. The first night we were there, the arena/stadium/whatever next door had two events going on: a horse race, and a Halloween party disco mix thingie. Between the two, it was pretty noisy, but they quit at 11:00.

I found all the old caches I had on my shopping lost for this area on the first day. Some of the interesting places the search took me to in town:

the State capitol building...

a unique Starbucks "we are the world?" topiary...

and the historic city graveyard.

The final cache of the day was a real feather in my cap... Northern California's oldest cache. I drove 50 miles (one way) just to score it. It dates back to September 2000, only four months after caching began.

Having completed my shopping list in one day, on the second day of our stay, I went out for a very nice bike ride along the American River bike trail. Naturally, there were some caches along the trail to pick up, too. :-)

Along the way I came across this little panhandler, who seemed a bit put out that I had no acorns:

The next is our penultimate stop on this outbound leg of our road trip: Bakersfield.