In article >,
Bob Terwilliger > wrote:
>Charlotte wrote:
>
>> (Not to mention Roseville and north in Placer. My dad told me that I
>> should not ever drive Hwy 70 again unless I really had to. He
>> backtracked all the way to I-5 and the Garden Highway for my
>> grandmother's funeral to avoid it. Back in the seventies, anything
>> between the Yuba River bridge and downtown Roseville was pretty much wide
>> open country.)
>
>I live in Lincoln, north of Rocklin and Roseville. I moved there in 2000,
>and it was mostly wide open country at that time, but it's HUGELY urbanized
>since then.
Oh, then you are stuck. Hwy 65 (I misremembered the number) was awesome
when it finally got a freeway end. I remember driving it for the first
time coming back from my grandfather's funeral in 88. But Dad (retired
from Caltrans
told me to avoid it whenever possible. Roseville on
I-80 is generally pretty jammed up if I go that far, as well (usually I
exit at Auburn).
Lincoln really was "blink twice" when I was a kid.
>> I'd think a Mexican bolillo or whatever usually gets used for tortas
>> should be fine as well and I'd be shocked if you couldn't find those up
>> there. woooeee cultural cross-pollination .
>
>Oh, bolillos are easily available here; in fact, there's a panaderķa just a
>few blocks from my house. Yeah, I could use bolillos for banh mi (or Cuban
>sandwiches, for that matter). If I make the sausage again, I'll see if I can
>catch the place when it's open.
Yay for panaderias! I have one near my house as well. Berkeley and North
Oakland are generally not happy hunting grounds for them, but my neighborhood
has a lot of Latino residents (11 am mass at the nearest RC church is en
espanol) and a lot of businesses.
Charlotte
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