Lake Tahoe is a little treasure. You haven't been? Well, you should. For several years now my family stays in a cabin out there during the last week of May, before the summer rush, and this year even though we only made our stay an extended weekend it was still wonderful. So what do we do out there? Well mostly we attach our behinds to a bike seat and take advantage of what's outside. Really that's kind of the point, to get out of the cabin and enjoy this paradise. So that's what we do! But we also do a lot of this:
Scrabble, Phase 10, puzzles, chocolate cake. It was all there. I myself have a serious problem with puzzles being that I become obsessed, unable to do anything else but stare at those pieces and put them together. It's bad. Something might be wrong with me. But like I said, what is outside the cabin is really the good stuff. A few highlights are on the first day when my little sis Megan and I took a long bike ride by the Truckee River and up into Squaw Valley. We just couldn't stop because it was so beautiful, but every once in a while I would think, "hmmm, I wonder how far we've gone???" Well I was informed once we got back that it was 20 miles +! When I heard that I thought I'd be pretty sore but I was relieved the next day when I wasn't. My dad also took me on a beautiful early morning motorcycle ride up through another pretty little valley. It's just so perfect there you just always want to stop and stare. And we did. Brad and I also took a little hike down to this old mansion built right on the lake. Beautiful again! You just can't lose there. The day after that we took a little bike ride down by the lake and got stuck right in the middle of a thunderstorm, complete with rain and hale, so we had to park out bikes under a tree and wait it out for awhile. But we were here so it didn't really matter:
It was nice and sunny on the other side of the lake, as you can tell. And this tree was really cool. The moss grows on one side of a lot of the trees there, and there are about a billion shades of green.
Tahoe is just a place where you enjoy the outdoors, but it forces you to relax at the same time. And it really is pine-scented everywhere you go. That's one of the best little treasures about the place, the air. I highly recommend it.
