Sacramento and Famous Nevada City

Time for another day trip on the Motorcycle.  Off to Nevada City, 21 miles away to check out the town where my favorite Christmas movie was filmed.  The Christmas Card with Ed Asner (Hallmark Movie).  On the way, Hwy 20, it was like a pine tree canopy and a wonderful ride.  Took a stop at a View Point stop, walked their 1/4 mile trail out to a steel lookout deck.  Map showed the points where they had cleared trees (looked like an oops with the clippers on a really bad haircut) and 2 areas with yellow dirt piled up (those were the Alpha and Omega gold mining camps of history.  We could also see Nevada City in the distance.  We walked around town and stopped into the Nevada City Cafe where parts of the film were shot.  Even had the Christmas Card Club that is famous in the movie. http://www.nevadacitychamber.com/nevada-city-photos-and-videos/the-christmas-card/
Saw other areas of town that are in the movie and shot our own pictures.  I watch this movie at least a few times every year and still love it.  Nov 1st Hallmark starts their Christmas movies, check it out!  Oh yah, Nevada City is also a historic Gold Mining town from the 1849ers. 

The next day we headed out for Sacramento in the truck and Buddy in tow.  Stopped at Camping World to get a few parts, and a new chair for me.  Comfy!!!  Then onto downtown Sacramento with the day spent in Old Sacramento and the California Railroad Museum.  The museum is awesome.  The had numerous real train engines, cars, cabooses, cargo, and sleeper cars.  It is just a huge museum with the real thing inside.  Engine #12 refurbished from the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad completion and the train that came from the West to meet at Promontory point in Utah.  Even the Golden Spike to commemorate the last spike to tie the two coasts together.  So the Donner Party that took months to get to the West, should have just waited 22 years and the trip by rail would have only taken 7 days.  What a huge accomplishment.  Learned all about the Chinese Americans that build the railway and all the trials they went through.  It was so neat to tie history together from our travels.  The Tie Hacks of Wyoming that cut the railroad ties, the Chinese whose ancestors live in Chinatown, San Francisco, the railroad museum, and camping in the area of all this history with the trains whistle blowing in the area numerous times a day.  The museum has tons of memorabilia and a photo gallery with pictures from the 1800's and the history of that event.  Upstairs was a miniture display.  We didn't realize how many scale railroads there were.  Randy had HO scale trains growing up. 

Off to walk the streets of Old Sacramento and the riverwalk.  Wooden sidewalks and historic buildings of the 1800's era.  I am so loving history and being able to see it before me.  Many restaurants, clothing, and some weird psychic or other areas we didn't go in.  We are in California and not the MidWest so it is different.  On the ride home we did some grocery shopping at Sam's Club.  Since we've been staying in areas without grocery stores, we've got to stock up.  Oh yah, and 3 gallons of milk for my hubby (that'll last 3-4 days, if we're luck)