We have a very nice breakfast with Kimball and Jeffery; what super friends. Their farm house is so warm and beautifully decorated. The effects of home sickness seem to melt away while we are here. 
The evenings and mornings have been getting chilly, and fall is in the air. The drivers door on the D is getting more and more floppy in the cold. Something is definitely up with that door! I find little tiny cat prints across the hood; a sign that Ramses has visited! :) 
We depart for Old Sacramento and the Train Museum. We arrive around 12:30, have lunch in a 4 story Saloon and then we explore the costume shop which has an antique elevator and vault!
The entire town looks like it came out of a western. -Because many of the buildings really date back to the 1800's. Raised side walks (board walks) line both sides of the street, and you can imagine cowboys walking up and down the planks, with spurs a-chingin'.
We get a call to be guests at the Team Fox Charity Poker match in October but have to say no. We have a very busy schedule already. The folks at the Train Museum are wonderful; we pull up to the old hardware store and folks start taking pictures and making donations. There is a Cameraman there from channel 10 News, and he interviews Oliver. We visit the museum. They have a great movie illustrating the history of the railroad, then at the end, the screen lifts, revealing full-size steam engines which you get to explore! Very magical and impressive displays! They also have some relics from ‘Back to the Future 3’! 
After a bit of fundraising, we hit the road for Yellowstone. We make it to Reno and stop at Walmart for some camping necessities, pbj, bread, cereal and milk. Oli replaces a low pressure A/C switch so that we can have air conditioning again. (It gave out a few days ago and a quick call to Danny Botkin at DMC Garden Grove helped us figure out the problem.) We’re staying at the Eldorado Hotel and Casino. Back to the neon lights and loud slot machine music! Not to mention there must be a motorcycle rally in town. On line the rooms listed at $50; at the desk I get queen room for $20. Very happy with the price and the room is very nice! Cheapest hotel on the trip yet!
We hope to make Yellowstone tomorrow and have Saturday to explore the wilderness.
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