285 Selby Ranch Road, Sacramento, California, 95864, United States
California Museum, Downtown Sacramento
Sacramento City Hall
Inside the Plaza
The World War II Memorial
Has anyone stayed in Guest Suites Adagio? Also, I really would prefer to stay in an indoor access hotel with a room suited for business purposes (worplace etc) and also with a restaurant and perhaps a bar inside...someplace to socialize. I would also like a spa or at the very least a place to work out.
Thanks for any help you can give!
I live in Sac
I've had MANY friends stay at the Sheraton & they've enjoyed it. Pool is on 4th floor w/ workout room. Isn't fancy but is in the middle of Jst activities.
Good bar & restaurant.
Enjoy!
I noticed that another VTer called Sac very casual, and that's very true. People are friendly and relaxed. Sacramentoians (I think I just made that up but I kind of like it....I'll start a trand!!!)are removed enough from San Francisco that we lose a bit of the pretension that goes along with the city and we welcome tourists rather than scoff at them.
Sac is a great place to stroll along the river, visit the art museum, or sit with a book at a coffee house but if you want to stetch your limbs, it is also a perfect point of departure for countless daytrips into the hills of California. Head north for an hour to Grass Valley and Nevada City, they are old mining towns. Nevada City has been preserved from its old mining days and if you liked Old Town Sac, you will LOVE Nevada City. It is a charming little 3 street town with great restaurants, low key bars, and fun shopping. Head out of town a little ways to the Yuba river for breathtaking hiking, swimming, cliff jumping and sunbathing. This is where I grew up and no matter where I go in the world, I am always amazed when I go back to my home town. Don't miss it if your anywhere near it.
nice owners our waitress was from delhi, very friendly, cvourteuos and had a sense of humor. nice atmohphere. i thi kthey have daily lunch buffet for about 6$. chai tea and fresh naan bread. crispy and soft. the best!
I've visited this unique alternative education school a few times and still have mixed feelings about it. It's called a democratic school and children ages 5-19 have a say in the process of how things are done.
First of all and most striking is the fact that there is no curriculum. Children choose how the spend most of their day. They can play or read or whatever they desire. The theory is that a child's curiosity will eventually lead him/her all that he/she needs to know and that teaching actually stifles learning.
The second impressive feature is that the school is designed to mimic as much of the adult world as possible, thereby preparing the youngsters for what lay ahead. They are each responsible for an in-house checking account and a position of some "corporation", such as the Audio/Video or Snack corporations. They also must all serve duty in the juvenile court system.
Whether or not you agree with this technique, you must agree that it is very bold and progressive. Actually, it's not that new at all, though, really. For hundreds of thousands of years children needed not school, but only to play and watch and mimic adults to learn how to grow up and survive well. And now that I think about it, there isn't much that I learned in school, besides reading and arithmetic, that I've retained or needed in post-highschool life.
This is a great museum with a good display of the railroad history of California and the western US in general. It has a number of old cars and engines, steam and diesel, including old Central Pacfic engines. It's fun for kids, too.
Visitors can go inside several engines and cars, including dining, sleeping, and mail cars. There are displays on model trains and an interactive model train set.
The location of the museum itself makes sense historically. Not only is Sacramento the state capitol, but it was the home of the Central Pacific Railroad, the western California-Utah branch of the Trans-Continental Railroad, and it was the home of the Big Four businessmen who controlled the Central Pacific and were among the most influential people who pushed for the creation of a transc-continental railroad. Moreover, the museum is in Old Sacramento near the old CP station.
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