Read Part One here and part two, here.
We wake up to a sunny morning on our last day here in the Carson Valley. Today, we'll finally get around to the somewhat-flimsy reason we came here for...to go shopping.
Mostly, I just wanted to get away from the trials of moving but the shopping angle made it a little more reasonable. We'd have a good reason to go, even though I mostly just wanted to get the family away for a little fun.
I'm also looking to get that cheap Costco gas in the cheap gas state of Nevada but, when I pull into the lot, I notice that the Costco station is closed for reconstruction. I ended up at a local Chevron where I paid $3.09, still about 30 cents less per gallon than the cheapest I could find in our neighborhood.
We fill up our cart with our rather long list of items at Costco, then head to Trader Joe's across the street to get a few more there, while Letty spends some time in Marshalls...which she's been missing since we moved.
The van is loaded. Actually, it's stuffed to the gills with our goods as we head up the mountains to head home.
Soon, we arrived in Lake Tahoe and stop in to the Lakeside Inn Hotel and Casino for a lunch stop.
The dining room is not really lakeside. In fact, you can't see the lake at all from here, but the food's good if the building seems a bit dated.
I lose a couple of bucks on an automated roulette machine and we're on our way.
We stop off at a showy beach to take a few pictures.
It's up to Hope Valley, a pristine alpine stretch about 20 miles south of the lake.
We stop again to take some pictures of the snow covered ground.
It's gorgeous up here where the Carson River starts it's journey back down to Nevada, where we just came from.
An hour later, we're pulling into our driveway and it's time to unload and rest up from the trip.
Darryl Musick
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