Week 26 - Truckee, CA, 2nd week - June20-June 26, 2022

We finished out our week in Truckee.  Whitney had to work on Saturday so she left on Friday, and I went with her - two reasons -- it would have been very cramped for me in the back seat, and I'm taking Eric and Jude backpacking on Monday and needed more that one evening to reinvent and reinvigorate.

I took photos of all sides of the house so we could remember how the other side lives....in a side note, compared to other houses, this house is quite modest.

MONDAY - One of the things we were supposed to do each day was to walk the dogs for 30-60 minutes.  It was easy - cuz the dogs are old and hard - cuz the dogs are old, and stubborn, and slow, and mindless.  But it was okay - it was our payback for the house.

We went to a city park that had a really nice park and play structure.  The kids played themselves silly until they became hungry,  Warren and Dad went to the Big M and brought back lunch stuff.

Next on the agenda was a Truckee downtown walk. Truckee is like Canon Beach on steroids in the mountains in the big C.  Very cute - kept to the wild west gold rush theme, tons of pedestrians on the sidewalks - and we enjoyed the candy store.  Here is just one photo of the shops on main street.

In the evening we drove up to Donner Pass - the original one...the Interstate has chosen an easier route.  It was a beautiful drive.  Our goal was to get to Rainbow Bridge which complete the "gap" in the eastern part and western part.

Donner Lake in the distance.

Walking path to get to the good place - the scenic place.

There was a geocache here - hidden on the metal rime that covers a big vertical tunnel going down to were the east tunnel met the west tunnel....or something like that.

Whitney found her first geocache!  Good job Whitney!

TUESDAY - we went to Donner Lake which was close to us.  It is much smaller that Lake Tahoe, much more rustic and "wild"  We found a nice place by the water that was shaded by trees.

Sand castles on a stump

Whitney said the water was cold

Copeland agreed

WEDNESDAY - we headed to the "big one" the "namesake" - Lake Tahoe.  Further away, Definently much bigger and more people, and boats and such.  Parking was a bit of a challenge -luckily we got there early and got free parking and not too far from the sand.

Looks almost like the Oregon beach without the waves.  the sun structure was invaluable.

Found a geocache on the big hinges of a boat ramp.

THURSDAY - we went to Squaw Valley, site of the 1960 Winter Olympics...no,  no,  we went to Palisade Park (in quite voice - can't say squaw).  first we too a hike and the end of a parking lot.  It was a beautiful hike - we only did half a mile - there was a lot of bouldering which was a challenge for the kids.

We turned around at a waterfall.

Just a short distance from where we parked there was a geocache hidden.  Warren found it!

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Next stop - - the Olympic Village

Warren had two more days in Lake Tahoe.  On Friday they rode a train between Gold Hill and Virginia city.  On Saturday they visited the railroad museum in Truckee.

And the kids found flowers to give to Dad.

Dad. Warren and kids drove back to Oregon on Sunday.

Here is our souvenir from Truckee purchased at the Donner Memorial California State Park. We have named him Donner.

I was busy for two days at home.  On Saturday I finally finished painting the windows and Malcolm helped me install the.

Probably the most amazing thing was that I actually cleaned up all of the mess I'd made in the six months it took me to do the windows.  the pool table is ready for the next project which will be installing two new windows in the basement.  The ones we had installed thirty years ago are rotten - all those ear of rain from the south beating on the wood was too much.  Too bad neither Dad nor I have a clue as to how to install the windows.  Probably we'll have t ask Val Glenn to help.

On Saturday Bev and Paul moved all of their food storage and items that they'd had in the outside storage up to Louthan Acres.  Bev has a bunch of shelves in the garage that are now fully loaded.  About 7:oo she called me and asked if I could make some food for them - they were starving.  So, I made toasted cheese sandwiches, soup, grape juice, chips and ants on a log.  It was the first meal they'd eaten as a family at The Acres.

Next week I taking Eric and Jude on their birthday trips and then on Thurs/Friday, I take Ruby and Abby.  I'm taking both groups to a little hidden campsite on the Salmon River - just a bit outside Welches.