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Since our retirement several years ago, we have been on the move almost continuously: sailing Live Now, long distance hiking, and taking extensive road trips (therapy hasn't helped). We established this Blog to share our small adventures with family and friends and, as our aging memories falter, remind ourselves of just how much fun we're having. We hope you enjoy it. Your comments and questions are greatly appreciated. Our reports here are mostly true except in those cases where there is no way for others to verify the actual facts.



On to Oakland

The following morning, Wednesday, June 30, we left the hotel and headed around the bay towards Oakland.  We walked around downtown Oakland, went to a bar where Jack London had hung out (he wasn't there), and saw his rustic log cabin, which had been moved from Alaska to Oakland after the author became famous.

We then took a tour of Franklin Roosevelt's 'Floating White House', the 'Potomac', which had been restored.  It had been originally a Coast Guard boat which was used during prohibition as a way to run down the moonshiners.  Afterwards, it was used by the White House as a Presidential yacht.  For a Presidential yacht, however, it was very plain.  Had been fitted to accommodate FDR's wheelchair.  After FDR, it went through several incarnations, including being once owned by Elvis who gave it to St. Jude's Children's Hospital.  It ended up being confiscated by the Coast Guard several years ago.  It had started out as what we would today call a 'drug runner' boat, and ended up being used to run drugs into the country.  Ironic, huh?

We toured the rest of Oakland by car and drove on up to El Cerrito by back roads and got a motel room, as we could not find a campsite.  Had a great Thai dinner in Auburn. 

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