Breaking New Ground!

It was heartening walk into sunshine again this Sunday morning, as we made our way to breakfast before moving from Monterey to Sacramento, a three-hour drive away. We set off mid-morning to join Highway 1 North and then the 101N/156 East. The GPS instructed me to "take the right-hand lane for Route 101 North" and I did or at least I thought I'd obeyed! Unfortunately, taking the first right-hand option put me on the 101 South, resulting in a fifteen-minute detour back to "Square One!" The route is a busy one, traffic-wise, but we achieved a good time and arrived in Sacramento around 2:30pm. We'd taken-in and admired the scenery en route, as it transformed from ocean to rolling golden hills with lakes and fields of grazing cattle. We also passed untold acres of agricultural land on which everything from pumpkins to peaches flourished. Before joining the 'I5' for the final push of the journey we stopped off for the first burger of the current trip. In fact we called-in at an 'In&Out' joint, part of a fast food chain not dissimilar to Johnny Rockets, but focussing on high volume / quick turnover. Man that place was busy, but when I said so to the cashier she looked around and said with a deadpan expression "Kinda!" Despite the speed of service, the food and 1950's ambiance were on the money. We're now staying at the Sutter House in Downtown Sacramento and a quick turn around some of the grid-based streets suggests that Sacramento is a nice place and we're close to the attractions.

(Like Washington, in one direction the streets are numbered, and in the cross-direction they are lettered!) During our journey the following song played several times and it suggested itself to round-off today's posting: