At the historic gold site, we found a quilt show! Antique quilts The quilt in the background used a banner supporting Grant for the backing--that's what is visible.

The site of Sutter's Mill

At Sutter's Mill, where Marshall discovered gold, Fred tried his hand at digging for gold. No luck, unfortunately.

Downtown Moke Hill.

After Monterey, we went to gold rush country. In the town of Angel Camp, we stayed at the haunted Hotel Leger. We had a lovely dinner there out on the balcony. The only ghost we encountered was a very polite one who opened the bathrood door for me.

We drove up a very steep hill called Jackass Hill to see the cabin where Mark Twain wrote the Jumping Frog of Caleveras County. The cabin has been reconstructed, although the chimney is original.

To our surprise, there was actually a jackass at the top of Jackass Hill!

We really enjoyed the great weather we had in Monterey!

Since it was Monterrey, we did have some spells of fog, but this year it didn't last long.

The weather in Monterey was great! The surf was higher than normal and the surfers were out in force.

From LeGrand, CA we went on to the rough life in Monterey. I took a class for a week and Fred found something to do.

Ron was nice enough to wash the MINI for us.

This great blue heron thought the fish pond was stocked just for him.

It's fun to visit the Dinsmores as they have quite a menagerie of wild and domestic critters hanging around. These guinea fowl, domestic, like to pick the bugs off the bumpers of the cars that arrive.

After we got down the mountain to the San Joaquin Valley, we were on our way to stay with Fred's cousin Ron when there was a head on collision in front of us at a stop sign. We stayed around to give our account before going to Ron and Patt's. Whew!