Note of Traveller

  When traveling, the interrogation is “fly or drive?”  Today, nosotros are traveling to Sacramento from the Pasadena, California area…a distance of 407 miles.  Flying fourth dimension would live an hour.  Arriving at the airport, an hr before takeoff.  Being with a wheelchair, add together some other hr to that to brand certain airline as well as drome staff tin teach yous on the bird as well as seated together.  Another 40 minutes to an hr to drive to the airport, hence a one-half hr to collect your baggage as well as some other to teach to the hotel…if it is nearby.  You mightiness also demand to rent a machine if populace transit options are non suitable (but inward Sacramento, they are pretty good). Watch the Video of This Trip! So, we’re talking close an investment of 5 hours…at least…and but about $350 for 3 people flying.  The drive is half dozen hours…not counting food, fuel, as well as bath stops…plus yous tin easil...

We must similar this hotel, we've stayed hither repeatedly over the terminal decade in addition to a half. At first, it was called the Hallmark Suites. Great complimentary breakfast bar, cocktail lounge, in addition to puddle area. Nice ii room suites. It became the Sierra Suites after that in addition to thus changed into a Hyatt House. All yet the same but looking a niggling worn at our terminal remain a twosome of years ago. Soon after nosotros checked out, it closed downwards in addition to underwent a year-plus renovations in addition to reopened a few months agone every bit a Doubletree Suites. Watch the Video! Nice place across the street from the Sunrise low-cal rails station, giving you lot slowly access to downtown Sacramento to the due west in addition to the fifty-fifty nicer Old Town Folsom to the east. This time, I was offered a ii floor loft unit of measurement amongst ii bathrooms, mobility access, in addition to ii bedrooms each amongst a m...

It's T-Minus Two until Christmas. On noon on Saturday, 2 days earlier the big holiday, in addition to we're heading out. Seems we're non the alone ones. Traffic is completely jammed on Interstate 5, disappearing upward into the San Gabriel Mountains every bit nosotros caput upward into the escape from L.A. known every bit the Grapevine. Actually, I was going to operate out tomorrow on Christmas Eve for this piddling getaway but Tim had wanted to operate out a 24-hour interval early on in addition to mayhap pass a nighttime halfway. Sacramento is near v or half-dozen hours of driving for us if traffic isn't also bad. I had no objections to leaving early. I went online to encounter where nosotros could detect a house to remain along the way. When I logged on to my Marriott rewards account, I flora 15,000 points I didn't retrieve I had. I'm non actually trying to accumulate points with them correct forthwith in addition to thus I encounter what that many poi...