Sacramento Sights • Folsom • Guide Dogs for the Blind • Tour of State Capitol or Governor's Mansion • Sutter's Fort • Old Town Sacramento • California State R/R Museum • Delta King Restaurant • Fat City Restaurant • California Police Academy • Comedy Club • Towe Ford Museum • Narrated city tour
Carmel & Monterey Sights
• Point Lobos State Reserve • Monterey Aquarium • Seventeen-Mile Drive • Carmel Shopping • Monterey State Historic Park • Butterfly Trees/Pacific Grove (Spring) • Cannery Row • Chardonnay II Cruise • Narrated tour of Monterey, Carmel & 17-Mile Drive
Motherlode Area Sights • Historic Sutter Creek • Daffodil Hill/Plymouth (April) • Calaveras Big Trees • Gold Panning • Jackson family style Dinners • Columbia State Historic Park • Mercer Caverns/Angels Camp • Many wineries - Stevenot, Ironstone, Chatom, etc. • Narrated Gold Country Tour
Napa-Sonoma Area Sights
• Sonoma Wine Country • Sebastiani Vineyards • Buena Vista Winery • Sonoma Cheese Factory • Sonoma State Historic Park • Napa Valley Wine Train • Old Faithful Geyser of California/Calistoga • Napa Wine Country • Freemark Abbey Candle Factory • Vintage 1870 Shopping Center • Korbel Champagne Cellars/Guerneville • Domaine Chandon • Occidential - Negri's Italian Dinners • Sterling Vineyards with tram ride/Calistoga • Charles Krug Winery • Hot Air Balloon Ride • Hanns Kornell Champagne Cellar • Clos Pegase Winery & Art Gallery • Narrated Tour of Napa Valley or Sonoma Valley
Sporting Events • Oakland A's Baseball • San Francisco Giants Baseball • Golden Gate Fields Horse Races • Bay Meadows Horse Races • Dodge / Save Mart 350 NASCAR
Santa Cruz Area Sights
• Begonia Gardens/Capitola • Felton's Roaring Camp Train Ride to Bear Mountain • Santa Cruz Big Trees & Pacific R/R • Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk • Shadowbrook Restaurant • Crow's Nest Restaurant • Santa Cruz Boardwalk • Old Town Capitola by the sea
San Francisco
• Narrated tour of San Francisco • Twin Peaks • San Francisco Zoo • Cliff House Restaurant • De Young Memorial Museum • Museum of Modern Art • Lunch at Fort Mason • Presidio • Fior d’Italia Restaurant • A. Sabella’s Restaurant • Swiss Louie’s Restaurant • St. Mary's Cathedral • Mission Dolores • Treasure Island Museum • Walking tour of Chinatown with Fortune Cookie Factory, Samples of Tea, Chinese Cultural Center, Chinese History Museum • Chinese New Year’s • Golden Gate Park • Exploratorium, Civic Center • Japanese Tea Gardens • California Academy of Sciences - Morrison Planetarium, Natural History Museum or Steinhart Aquarium • Acres of Orchids - South San Francisco • Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf • Ghiradelli Square • Japan Center • Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum • Alcatraz Island • Angel Island • San Francisco Experience Theater • Underwater World • San Francisco Bay Cruise • Ferry from San Francisco to Tiburon or Sausalito • Hornblower Yacht Cruise • California Culinary Academy • Day on the Bay Tour • Sweet Tooth Tour • Deluxe hotel tour • Narrated night tour of city lights (Dec) • Victorian Homes tour with Haas Lilenthal House and Rutlinger House • Cherry Blossom Parade
Theme Parks
• Marine World Africa U.S.A./Vallejo • Paramount's Great America/Santa Clara
Gambling
• North Shore Lake Tahoe • South Shore Lake Tahoe • Minden - Carson Valley Inn • Reno • Sparks • Chicken Ranch Bingo/Jamestown • Carson City - Nugget • Ormsby House - Carson City
Special Events • Singing Christmas Tree (Dec) • Olympic & World Figure Skating Champions (Jun) • Walt Disney's World on Ice (Feb/Mar or Oct/Nov) • Grand National Rodeo (Oct) • Barnum & Bailey's Circus (Aug) • Dicken's Christmas Festival • Sacramento State Fair (Aug) • Harvest Festival (Oct) • Gilroy Garlic Festival (Jul) • Renaissance Pleasure Fair (Oct) • San Francisco Broadway Plays
Other Bay Area Sights
• Dunsmuir House/Oakland-Dec. • Filoli House, Allied Arts Guild • Bay Cruise from Vallejo to S.F. • Jack London Square/Oakland • Muir Woods Nat'l Monument • Winchester Mystery-San Jose • Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium/San Jose • Lick Observatory/San Jose • Mission San Jose Chapel • Mormon Temple/Oakland • Oakland Zoo • Sausalito-S.F. Ferry • Tiburon
More Popular Sights • Yosemite National Park - Open Car Tram, Awahnee or Wawona Hotel Lunch • Yosemite Mountain-Sugar Pine R/R - Fishcamp • Tahoe Queen Cruise - Lake Tahoe • Harrah's Automobile Collection/Reno • Apple Hill/Camino (Oct) • Hershey's Chocolate Factory • Almond Grower's Tour • Dairy Tour/Central Valley • Grand Island Mansion/Delta • Wonder Valley Dude Ranch /Sanger • Glass Blowing Factory/Benecia • Jelly Belly Factory/Fairfield • Anheuser Busch Brewery/Fairfield • Lindsay Olive Factory • Micke Grove Park/Stockton • Roeding Park Zoo/Fresno • Ponderosa Ranch • Virginia City, NV • Fleischmann Planetarium • North Shore Boat Cruise/Tahoe • Half Moon Bay • John Muir Historic Site • Pinnacles National Monument • Point Reyes National Seashore • Pet-A-Llama Ranch • Healdsburg • Petaluma Cheese Factory • Dreyer's Ice Cream Factory • Behring Auto Museum • NASA Space Center • Stanford University Tour • Stanford Shopping Mall • Gilroy or Vacaville Outlet Mall • Great Mall of the Bay Area in Milpitas
Theaters & Shows
• Fallon House Theater/Columbia • Sierra Repertory Theater/Sonora • Garbeau's Theater/Rancho Cordova • Roger Rocka's Dinner Playhouse/Fresno • Golden Gate Theater/S.F. • Orpheum Theater/S.F. • Mason Street Theater/S.F. • Sherlock Holmes Theater/S.F. • Claypiper Theater/Drytown • Circle Star Theater/Bay area • Concord Pavilion/Concord • Yan Can Cook T.V. Show • Seniorama Show/Santa Cruz • ARCO Arena • Music Circus • Cow Palace • Oakland Coliseum • Community Center Theater/Sacramento • Club Fugazi-Beach Blanket Babylon/San Francisco
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