Sacramento is Featured in The New York Times as a Travel Destination: 36 Hours in Sacramento

A weird thing happened yesterday. Instead of receiving The Sacramento Bee on my doorstep, The New York Times Sunday edition was there. I realized something was amiss when I opened the door because instead of a skinny little wad with a dead spider stuck in the middle, the paper was thick and neatly bound.

I put on my reading glasses and sure enough, I was holding The New York Times. I'm pretty sure The New York Times and The Sacramento Bee hire separate couriers. Hmmm, most curious. I wondered if maybe my husband switched our subscription without telling me. Naw, he wouldn't do that. Well, he might do something that could dramatically change my life and forget to tell me, but he wouldn't cancel our subscription to The Sacramento Bee. We rely on that paper for news about Sacramento, plus my husband would love to work for The Sacramento Bee.

My husband, Adam Weintraub, is a journalist. More than 25 years in the business, first as an investigative reporter at City News Bureau in Chicago, later with major newspapers around the country and finally landing a job as the managing editor at the Sacramento Business Journal. He made a lateral move to Sacramento from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal. Celebrated his 10-year anniversary with the Business Journal and, last year, at this time, was let go.

He now freelances because nobody seems to be hiring. It's a good thing his wife is a top-producing Sacramento real estate agent because we otherwise wouldn't make ends meet on what freelancing pays. The print industry is hurting. You've probably noticed Adam's byline in The Sacramento Bee and Comstock's Magazine. My husband takes his profession very seriously; journalism is in his blood. He's a dedicated reporter, much like my late father-in-law, Larry Weintraub, who wrote for The Chicago Sun-Times.

My husband is also a much better writer than I am, and he's witty, brilliant and a dedicated journalist down to the bone, but jobs in journalism are few and far between. I have tried to encourage him to write a book, but that idea keeps getting shoved to the back burner as he takes on new freelance assignments.

So, no, my husband would not have switched our subscription to The Sacramento Bee. This was obviously a screw up somewhere.

I sat down to breakfast with The New York Times. In its travel section, I discovered a huge spread on Sacramento and things to do in Sacramento. This wasn't a regional edition of the paper. Hey, that's pretty cool. Hip, but sometimes overlooked for its fun factor, Sacramento made it into The New York Times as a travel destination.

My husband snorted when I told him the good news, "Oh, that's been online for days." It's called 36 Hours in Sacramento. The reporter says, "This capital city has a gentle, small-town charm, with a strong theater tradition, delightful new restaurants and a vibrant art scene." She acknowledges that we have more trees in Sacramento than any other city in the world, except for maybe Paris. It's a joy to see Sacramento recognized as a formidable travel destination and many of my favorite restaurants plugged. Check it out. Sacramento is a wonderful city in which to work and play. We chose Sacramento many years ago as one of the best places to live in America.