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Amador County: California's Gold Country

Tom Wilmer

  

    

Join Travel Correspondent, Tom Wilmer as he discovers cool things to do and see in Amador County in the heart of Californiaâ??s Gold Country. Weâ??ll visit with Annette Reiser at the historic circa-1852 National Hotel in Jackson CA. And then weâ??ll meet Maureen Funk, Executive Director of the Amador Council of Tourism for an insiders look at cool things to do and see, from dining and antiquing to wine tasting in the county with the Stateâ??s oldest Zinfandel plantings, dating from the 1860s.

Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.