ALL ABOARD PLEASE article by: James Thomas Fridas

Group travel is a great way to travel, buses are an exciting form of transportation especially if you travel with friends to different places, casino’s in Las Vegas, Reno, Sparks, Carson City, maybe the east coast if you live there like Atlantic City, Miami or take a vacation and tour such famous places as the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone Park, or any of a thousand other destinations in an American city that has more to offer than Europe, Asia, Africa or the Middle East, if you do not believe me check it out, the Mississippi has a hundred travel destinations aboard their River Boats and then there is the Missouri river and the Ohio River with many more destinations.

Take a bus group to Branson or a group to Salt lake City, or visit California’s famous Yosemite Park what a breathe taking view, El Capitan among many of the great views. 

One very spectacular place to visit in Southern California is when the Swallows return to Capistrano and the Hurst mansion and then there is of course the Mission at San Juan Capistrano I mention above which is near San Diego south of Los Angeles and there are a total of 21 Spanish Missions that were part of the Spanish order of Franciscans who built both the missions and the military out posts for the Spanish army.

Perhaps the most intriguing mission is the Mission in San Francisco at Dolores as a young boy I lived in the apartment across the street from there, it is a beautiful mission and of course the 21 missions are all beautiful, jump in your go mobile and visit some of them when you can.

Now we have a new travel package in California that happens to be the Indian Casino's, some  of them are truly incredible while a few have actually closed.  There are 27 casinos in Northern California, 7 in Central California and 23 in Southern California with San Diego county leading with 12 casinos in the county.  

Every bus company serves a certain number of casinos for example Diamond Coach Tours out of Oakley/Antioch area in Contra Costa county serves Feather Falls Casino in Oroville and Cache Creek in just a little north of Sacramento California.   They also service Chuckchanci Gold just a little east of Madera California and a few other casinos with other bus companies when there is space on the calendar.

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