May 8, 2007 Traveling along historic Hwy 49 in California’s Gold Country, my father as a travel companion, I pulled into the town of Columbia, just a few miles north of Sonora. We had a reservation at City Hotel, an historic inn that sits inside Columbia State Park. The history of the hotel takes on […]

From a bench along Main Street, I sat and studied the black cars of the McCloud Railway Company. The train sat silent and deserted, as I had arrived in McCloud, California, on a quiet, Sunday evening. Only a hint of activity surrounded me, a few people taking walks, a local resident opening the door to