The I-80 stretch of road through Gold Country, which zooms past Vallejo, through Sacramento, and into the Sierra Nevada mountains, is like stepping from the Patagonia fleece tech world of San Francisco into whatever portal takes Alice to Wonderland. The journey is multisensory, featuring dozens of colors and shades that blur as you drive, and lands the traveler in a world much unlike the one they began in.
One might counter that a road trip anywhere through the countryside is not unlike that — journeying from urban to rural — but it can be all the more dizzying to set off without any direction. For all those who favor driving rather than flying, here are the 10 places worth adding to the I-80 road trip itinerary.
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