See The Sacramento River ... By Car

Along the Sacramento River, vegetation is often so lush, so jungle-like, that it's hard to see the river.  Moreover, if you wanted to walk to the river's edge, in a lot of places you'd need a machete to hack your way through.But from the top of th...

NorthboundIn honor of the current political season, I felt obligated to post a snapshot I took on one of my drives to the river.The locale is in Tehama County, a rural county near the north end of the Sacramento Valley. Like a lot of rural areas in Cal...

I had lunch with a bison the other day. Okay, the bison was stuffed, and after lunch, so was I.Lunch was at the Grimes Boat Landing, where I ate the best burger I’d had in a long time. The fixin’s were fresh, the onion was the sweetest I can rememb...

It seems odd that when I drive on rural California roads I don’t see signs such as "California Heartland Trail" or "Farm Heritage Byway." In different parts of this state, signs remind people they are on a scenic byway, a wine trail, or El Camino Rea...

On the Sacramento River a little ways south of  Hamilton City is the site of long-vanished Monroeville.  In its day, Monroeville was the home of one of California's most prominent citizens--William B. Ide. Ide is commemorated on a marker on n...

This is a snapshot of an old barn on California Route 45, between Knights Landing and Colusa.  The picture is dated in February of 2011.  Some time after then, the barn was gone.  A resident told me that old barns fall down bec...

The I-Street Bridge, a continuation of a Sacramento main drag, crosses the Sacramento River just north of Old Sacramento.  I-Street BridgeIt is a steel, double-deck, swing bridge with two railroad tracks on the lower deck and a two-lane high...

They'll have to push pretty hard to get through this gang. Photographed from the Sacramento River Water Intake, August 22, 2012Directions:Interstate 5 exit: Richards Boulevard (Exit 520), 1 mile north of downtown Sacramento.Route...

　Sacramento County operates a very popular park on Sherman Island at the mouth of the Sacramento River.The river is wide and slow here, and the delta breezes blow fiercely across the island, being their strongest from May to October. Windsurfers and ...

It gets windy here.On State Route 160, along the east side of the Sacramento River south of Rio Vista