Wednesday 19th
We had figured that 96 miles to Lake Tahoe would be a fairly gentle drive, what didn’t figure on was that I had chosen a bendy road, also that it was uphill all the way, we climbed from 4000ft to over 8000ft. Consequently our drive time was more than four hours and around fifteen gallons of gas.
We left Plymouth and cut East on a county road that took us through Fiddletown and eventually joined up with route 88, part of which is built on the old wagon train route opened in 1844 and gave access to Sacramento and the Gold Country, along with such names as Tragedy Valley gave us some idea of the hardship and difficulties of travel in those days – they would take days to travel the distance we thought tedious in a couple of hours. We stopped on the shores of Caple Lake to have our picnic, which was very pleasant However our first sight of Lake Tahoe did not disappoint, it is a beautiful location, with deep blue water surrounded by tree covered mountains. We had decided to approach from the South and head to the West Shore, as there are several State and Forestry campgrounds, but after stopping at a visitor center we discovered that there were only two options available – Kaspian and Sugar Pine, so we settled on Sugar Pine, where we found a nice campsite in amongst the Sugar Pine trees, after following the road round the lake for about 12 miles. We set up in the almost empty campground in a very nice site.
So today we will set out to see some of the sights of Lake Tahoe.
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Lake Tahoe is great but we found that you could not reach a lot of the shore line due to the rich folks houses but its still a stunning area and the home of some friends so we never got to stop on a campsite.
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