{"id":1208,"date":"2018-03-08T07:49:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T23:53:08","slug":"sacramento-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/08\/sacramento-last-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento last day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our last day started off with a tour of the Stanford mansion! Apparently Leland Stanford (Sr) was the governor of California for a time and lived in Sacramento. The house, originally pretty modest at around 2000 square feet, was expanded to 4k and then 19k square feet.<\/p>\n

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Front of the mansion in the Second Empire<\/a>\u00a0architectural style.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a really bad flood in 1862<\/a>, the house was raised up and a relatively low-value ground floor added. That particular flood was so bad that Sacramento was about 10 feet underwater for 3 months. Afterwards, the\u00a0entire city<\/em> was raised a story, buildings and roads included. There are tours of the subterranean areas available during the summer.<\/p>\n

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The alleyways were not raised, which you can see evidence of in the still-present sloping.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A view of the Sacramento River with weird pyramidal building in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Complete with abandoned stroller.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pizza for lunch! J got a slice of garlic chicken pizza in addition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Full-size model high-speed train at the State Railroad Museum. There’s a big room full of train cars from different eras.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Snow plow car, essential to rail travel through the Sierra Nevadas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dining car with historic train dining car china patterns.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mail car, back when trains were used to transport mail. Apparently they were vulnerable to robbery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shinkansen<\/a> training simulator. J did it and says its super easy \u2013 all you have to control is the brake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Dinner for J. I had leftover burrito from the previous day<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We took Amtrak home in the evening, and then Caltrain back to our place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our last day started off with a tour of the Stanford mansion! Apparently Leland Stanford (Sr) was the governor of California for a time and lived in Sacramento. The house, originally pretty modest at around 2000 square feet, was expanded to 4k and then 19k square feet. After a really bad flood in 1862, the … <\/p>\n

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