Vacaville? Well, we are not quite in Napa, which is 26 miles away, but in Solano County's Hampton Inn and Suites. Like the Four Points hotel being part of Starwood (or the Sheraton chain), Hampton belongs to the Hilton family. We are 35 miles southwest of Sacramento and 45 miles northeast of San Francisco. Vacaville was founded in 1851 and now has a population of more than 92,000.
There are 5 Japanese restaurants, although one is called Keanu's Island Kine Food, which serves Japanese, Filipino and Hawaiian food. Located in this less than sprawling metropolis are the Vacaville Premium Outlets (120 stores--that's their ad to the left).
Kenji, Lefty and David all made it to the Four Points by 7AM, where we had breakfast, drove to Trader Joes to pick up some supplies and found our way to the Hampton Inn in Vacaville. Free breakfast, quick internet, free bottles of water with trail mix, an evening cocktail corner where no one bothers you and large rooms. Kenji, Lefty and I walked down to Umi Sushi for a decent lunch:
The restaurant featured $2 mugs of Sapporo Beer, and I had an oyako donburi. Dave came later. At the end of the day we had a beer and bottle of Two Buck and 49 cents Chuck Shiraz with potato chips. The other three I think went back to Umi Sushi for dinner, while I stayed back and slept
Kenji, Lefty and David all made it to the Four Points by 7AM, where we had breakfast, drove to Trader Joes to pick up some supplies and found our way to the Hampton Inn in Vacaville. Free breakfast, quick internet, free bottles of water with trail mix, an evening cocktail corner where no one bothers you and large rooms. Kenji, Lefty and I walked down to Umi Sushi for a decent lunch:
The restaurant featured $2 mugs of Sapporo Beer, and I had an oyako donburi. Dave came later. At the end of the day we had a beer and bottle of Two Buck and 49 cents Chuck Shiraz with potato chips. The other three I think went back to Umi Sushi for dinner, while I stayed back and slept
Some of you might remember that semi-famous Nut Tree off U.S. 40, which became Interstate 80. That's in Vacaville. Surely, you had a personalized giant frosted honey cookie and rode their rocking horses. Hey, in 1983 they catered a luncheon hosted by California Governor George Deukmejian for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, and were an early pioneer in what is today called California cuisine. Actually, Nut Tree closed for a decade between 1996 and 2006, said to be mostly caused by a family feud, and is now a shopping plaza. Their train powered by a green biodiesel engine runs on biofuel.-
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