{"id":1161,"date":"2018-03-02T08:04:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T16:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2018-10-01T19:38:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T02:38:25","slug":"to-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/02\/to-sacramento\/","title":{"rendered":"To Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weekends ago, J and I went to Sacramento<\/a> to take advantage of the President’s Day holiday. We chose Sacramento because it is close enough to ride the train to, but far enough that we wouldn’t go on a normal weekend. It’s also the state capital.<\/p>\n

Apparently though, it is not considered a valid vacation destination. Almost everyone we told our plans to said, “Why Sacramento??”, as if there’s nothing there. For the record, Sacramento has nearly 500,000 people (2.1 million in the metropolitan area), a very<\/em> walkable downtown, and some of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the US (think of them as the antithesis of ghettos). Sacramento is a lot cheaper than the Bay Area too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

J and I took Amtrak<\/a>‘s Capitol Corridor line from San Jose to Sacramento. The ride took about 3 hours, which compares very favorably to driving. It cost $40 per person one way.<\/p>\n

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Flowering pear (so said another train passenger) trees as seen from the train.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cows as seen from the train. I’m sure they love that 60 Hz buzz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We stayed at a Hostelling International<\/a> hostel (J’s first time in a hostel!) just a 10-minute walk from the train station. The hostel is housed in the repurposed Llewellyn Williams\u00a0Mansion.<\/p>\n

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A classic and very spacious example of Victorian Italianate architecture. We stayed on the third floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ll make more posts on what we did in Sacramento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weekends ago, J and I went to Sacramento to take advantage of the President’s Day holiday. We chose Sacramento because it is close enough to ride the train to, but far enough that we wouldn’t go on a normal weekend. It’s also the state capital. Apparently though, it is not considered a valid vacation … <\/p>\n

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