Lake Tahoe
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Merced – We stayed at a motel in Merced our first night I remember using the pool.
Placerville – the second night we stayed at a motel in Placerville (Hangtown) We did some touring of the gold mining in the area. Stopped at least one gold mining museum.
Lake Tahoe – We rented a condo on the lake at a large complex. We went to our “room” up an elevator down a long wood paneled wall. When we went into the room my Dad was not happy. It’s not that it wasn’t nice it just seemed like a hotel room. He went back to the desk and returned soon to the room. We grabbed our suitcases and took them back to the car and drove to our new “room”. Now this was more like it. This was a two story townhouse with a large loft. It probably had a view of the lake, but I don’t remember for sure. Downstairs was my bedroom and a bathroom. There were bunk beds in the room I think two sets. There might have been another bedroom but I can’t recall. The main floor had a large living area, semi-open kitchen and a loft above, which you reached by ladder. The master bedroom was on this level I think but I really can’t remember anything at all about my parents’ room.
My sister Renee stopped by, she just happened to be in the area visiting her friends brother. She won a good amount of money at the slots in South Lake Tahoe.
There were tons of really big Pine cones all over the place. Mom and I gathered up about 3 paper grocery bags worth. (Not sure exactly why we took so many, mayabe mom had some craft project in mind. I don’t think we ever actually used them.)
One day we drove to Virginia City, Nevada.
The last night in Tahoe my mom was not feeling well, she had sweating chills, she spent most of the night in the bathroom. I’m sure she was looking forward to riding in a car all day long the next day NOT! Our last day in Lake Tahoe we had breakfast at McDonalds I had an Egg McMuffin. I don’t think I normally ordered those, but I do know I haven’t had one since. I got car sick pretty fast as we were going over the pass into Nevada (so associated the Egg McMuffin with getting sick) on way home . We of course had to stop and let me walk on the side of the road for a while. I think we had to stop again for me to take another stroll after a couple hours in the middle of nowhere in Nevada. I don’t remember what our plans were for the rest of the trip, I think we may have been done. We drove all the way to Lone Pine today. It was a very long drive for me and not exactly a dash to the corner store for my dad either.
From the motel you could see Mt Whitney way off in the distance. My mom was still not feeling well. Dad and I went to a coffee shop and got dinner. We later watched the firework footage from New York Harbor on the television. We drove home the next day.