Back in the Wild West

Since my last post I have moved about a bit. I took a long but scenic train trip from Vancouver, BC to Portland, OR where I had another weekend of shenanigans before a flight to San Francisco, CA. I picked up a car and headed inland, staying the night in Sacremento before continuing on to Lake Tahoe.

What a beautiful place! The water is pristine in clarity and colour and the geography is quite remarkable as it is a perfect but massive caldera. I took the gondola up to the top of the ski field for amazing views of the lake and the Californian valley to the west and the Nevadan valley to the east. I would love to come back here for a week of skiing in the future.

I continued down into Nevada and goldrush country and have stopped for the night in Bridgeport which has little more going for it than Halls Creek and like HC has, nearby, a very cool little preserved ghost town called Bodie.

Lakes Mono and Tahoe