THE LUXURY TRAVEL
MAGAZINE FOR INDEPENDENT
TRAVELLERS

The kids and I stopped in Sacramento, capital of California, but we had a special reason for doing so, and while the capital is a nice city, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend a special stop here if you don’t share the reason we had for staying overnight. I met a wonderful couple in New Zealand who happen to own the Minor League baseball team, the Sacramento RiverCats. As it is Matthew’s dream to be a sports announcer, they graciously offered to let him participate in the official “announcing” of the game. So, for us, it was the thrill of a lifetime, and the RiverCats are a superior team, feeding players into the Major Leagues, including Cy Young Trophey wnner, Barry Zito, who signed with the Oakland Athletics in 2002 as well as two rookies of the year, Bobby Crosby and Houston Street, in 2004 and 2005 respectively.

San Francisco – well, I could spend an eternity writing about the sights, sounds and feelings evoked by this city. Its uniqueness, based on topography alone, with its persistent hills and valleys, cable cars, Golden Gate Bridge, Pier 39, Chinatown, the San Francisco Giants and nearby Sausalito. There would be something new to do for two weeks straight, without a doubt, and we had but two days.