At Lake Tahoe
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I have been trying to get to Lake Tahoe for many years. I first glimpsed it in the mid-1970s, on a day trip from Sacramento to Reno. Years later, I tried twice: I signed up for a cheap trip there in exchange for a timeshare presentation, but that was canceled by the pandemic, and our first trip after travel re-opened, with Good Times Travel (GTT), was to include Tahoe, but a nearby wildfire made it impossible.
This trip, also with GTT, partly overlapped with two earlier GTT trips. It began with the same train ride we used on our trip to Pismo Beach, this time followed by a bus ride to Monterey. The next day we went to Felton, where we visited Roaring Camp, and took the narrow-gauge tourist railroad through the redwoods. We continued to Sacramento.
In Sacramento, we visited the capitol, Old Sacramento, and the California State Railroad Museum. I was surprised by the information card at the Gold Coast, a private rail car furnished in Venetian Renaissance replete with a gold and crystal chandelier, a fireplace in the drawing room and brocade tapestry. It explained that the owners, Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg, were partners not only professionally but personally.
On a partly rainy day, we took another train through Truckee and the Donner Pass to Reno. The next day, we toured Carson City, Virginia City, and Reno, and had a short train ride aboard the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. The day was too cold, too windy, again partly rainy, with a touch of snow (!), and Virginia City was blanketed with Trump signs, and I mean at tourist shops not private homes!
The weather cleared up the following day, for our lunch cruise on Lake Tahoe. From there, we went to Mammoth and stayed at the same hotel we used on our previous visit there. As before, our hotel room was huge, but this time the two bathrooms were both standard size, not like the enormous one I had before.
On the last day, on our way back to Los Angeles, we stopped at Manzanar National Historic Site.
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