Paicines, California

On Wednesday our friends took us to Old Town Sacramento.  We walked around the shops.  The train station is right next to the Sacramento River and there is a lot of train memorabilia.  The old hardware store is more of a book store and old time toy store.  A lot of the shops are geared toward children and the day we were walking around there were lots of children on field trips in the various museums.  There are souvenir shops and lots and lots of restaurants!

Joel wanted to take us to lunch on the river so we went to the Virgin Sturgeon.  You walk down some steps to an airplane walkway which takes you to the restaurant which sits out over the river on a pier.  We had a good lunch and I had a hot buttered rum!  Some of our entertainment was provided by a mother goose and her babies.  It was fun watching them trying to get up on the pipe or the dock.  They were enjoying eating the grass that was growing on the landing!

We arrived in the tiny (population 204) town of Paicines in San Benito County, near Hollister, California yesterday!  We will be here until June 9th.  We have a Thousand Trails campground here.  The town itself has one country store but we are out in the middle of a farming area.  It looks like they are growing onions, cabbage and lots of grape.  So of course there are several wineries in the area.  We've also seen some Bison across the road from the campground!

After arriving yesterday we went about 5 miles up the road to the town of Tres Pinos, with a population of 500!  They have an ATM, a gas station that sells diesel fuel, a saloon, several Mexican restaurants, a cafe and a big church!

Watching the baby geese..."Ain't Life Grand!"