We left early from Las Vegas (the kids loved "Vegas" because of all the "flash") and headed into California for a long drive to Livermore, CA, where we would stay with Kim's aunt for a few days. Along the way, we stopped at a very nicely developed "Ghost Town" along the lines of Colonial Williamsburg in that it has mostly been rebuilt on the foundations and remaining walls of the original buildings. Calico Ghost Town in California is run as a county park, so the tour of the silver mine was just one dollar and the train ride was only four dollars; very reasonably priced on site restaurant, too (kids loved throwing the peanut shells directly onto the floor from a pail of peanuts on our table). It was very hot today (109) as we passed through the California Central Valley on the way to the San Francisco Bay area. However, by the time we got to Livermore it was down to a very nice 84 degrees. It was great to be with family again...Kim's "California relatives" were our extended family back when we were stationed in the Bay area for five years back in the last 80s & early 90s. It was a nice to be in a familiar home and crawl into a non-hotel bed!
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