Note: Walking from hotel to local restaurant for orientation and dinner. Optional walking in the botanical gardens.

Afternoon: Individual arrivals to the program. Hotel check-in from 3 p.m. 4-5 p.m. Program Registration in the hotel lobby. 5:30 p.m. Depart from hotel lobby to walk to Chops Restaurant for program orientation followed by dinner.

Dinner:

Evening: Take a walk through the State Capitol Botanical Gardens, across the street from the hotel.

Lodging: Hyatt Regency Sacramento

Meals Included: Dinner

Note: Walking on city streets approximately 5 miles over the course of the day. Walking and standing on guided walking visits. Using public transportation

Breakfast: Full American breakfast buffet In the hotel restaurant.

Morning: Take public transportation (or walk on your own and meet up with group) to Old Sacramento. Explore Sacramento’s History Museum and walk the streets of Old Sacramento and underground city. Return to the hotel via public transportation.

Lunch:

Afternoon: A leisurely stroll explore's immigration and ethnic diversity via a culinary walking and tasting adventure through Sacramento's city eateries.

Dinner: Your choice to explore local fare.

Lodging: Hyatt Regency Sacramento

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Note: Walking and standing up to one hour in the museum. Biking 10 miles on mostly flat terrain with one stop at a winery mid-way.

Breakfast: Full American breakfast buffet In the hotel restaurant.

Morning: Take Public transportation to California Railroad Museum. At the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento, discover the role railroads have played in the development of our economy, lives, and culture here in the Golden State. Learn about the Transcontinental Railroad, one of the defining accomplishments of western United States history and the completion of America's first coast-to-coast transportation system.

Lunch: Picnic lunch at a winery.

Afternoon: Travel by motorcoach to Clarksburg, in Wine Country for a 10-mile bike ride through the vineyards. As well as stopping en route for a wine tasting break, learn about the area’s irrigation system and how these vineyards were established. Complete the circuitous ride back at the winery and finish with a second wine-tasting before returning to Sacramento by motorcoach.

Dinner: Your choice to explore local fare.

Lodging: Hyatt Regency Sacramento

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Note: Walking and standing up to one hour on a guided visit of Historic Colluma Gold Discovery Site. White water rafting is up to Class III, suitable for any level of experience. No prior rafting experience necessary.

Breakfast: Full American breakfast buffet In the hotel restaurant.

Morning: Depart by motorcoach to the American River in Coloma, for a morning of rafting on this Class III river, suitable for any level of experience.

Lunch: Buffet lunch with a presentation by a Native American interpreter.

Afternoon: At Coloma State Park, explore the spot, where James W. Marshall discovered gold in 1848 on the South Fork of the American River in the valley the Nisenan Indians knew as Cullumah. This event led to the greatest mass movement of people in the Western Hemisphere and was the spark that ignited the spectacular growth of the West during the ensuing decades. The gold discovery site, located in the still visible tailrace of Sutter's sawmill, in present day Coloma California, is one of the most significant historic sites in the nation. Continue to Wakamatsu Silk and Tea Farm, where in 1869, the first group of Japanese people arrived with the purpose of settling in California establish a tea and silk farm, in all likelihood the first group from Japan to arrive and settle in the United States.

Dinner: Your choice to explore local fare.

Lodging: Hyatt Regency Sacramento

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Note: Walking and standing up to one hour on docent-guided museum visit.

Breakfast: Full American breakfast buffet In the hotel restaurant.

Morning: Take Public Transportation to Crocker Art Museum. The Crocker Art Museum is one of the leading arts institutions in California, and the longest continuously operating art museum in the West, since 1885. The Museum boasts one of the state’s premier collections of Californian art dating from the Gold Rush to the present day, a world-renowned collection of master drawings, European paintings, one of the largest and most comprehensive international ceramics collections in the U.S.

Lunch: Your choice to explore local fare.

Afternoon: Depart the city by motorcoach to visit Eldorado and Amador counties, America’s “fruit basket: Seventy percent of all fruits and vegetables produced in the United States are sourced from the Sacramento Delta region. Taste artisanal olive oil, seasonal fruits and of course, wine.

Dinner: Farewell dinner barbecue at a winery.

Lodging: Hyatt Regency Sacramento

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Full American breakfast buffet In the hotel restaurant.

Morning: Individual departures. Check out of hotel by 10 a.m.

Meals Included: Breakfast