Lake Tahoe

When you look at a map, a line is a line and an inch is 10 miles, except when you are from Ontario and driving through the Sierras. The drive to Lake Tahoe gets serious around Camino. Got google maps and zoom into the roads. See all those zigs and zags and curves? Those are winding up the sides of sheer cliffs that limit top speeds to 45 mph and where one mistake spells disaster.

There are few rails so if you sneeze, it's a one way trip to your maker. So throw our scedule out the window. Got into Tahoe just before 6PM, hoping that the people in the burned out motor home that snagged up traffic for an hour, got out OK without injury.

Our camp site was only a few miles out of town and we thought we would set up and then head back into town for a bite to eat. Well, it was a couple of miles ... straight up. No one wanted to risk the drive in darkness, so we had chicken sandwiches and pringles (good thing we had some snack supplies)

Tahoe is spectacular. We quickly realized that you need at least a week here. Hiked down to the beach and watched a spectacular sun set. The fire risk was very high, so we sat on the picnic bench and gazed at the moon and stars. Good way to wind down.

It didn't get too cold at night (48F) but you needed to have a good bag. Got some great sun up shots of the lake and surrounding mountains.

Today we are heading south to brodie. We'll visit Mono lake and the brodie ghost town. It will als be the last time we have cool nights for a while. We are heading into the dessert.

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