lake tahoe and lassen national park

july twenty-seven two thousand ten

We are headed toward Lake Tahoe where Malia's mom Liana, spends her summers caretaking a house on a beautiful south western stretch of the lake.

Here we are, driving the uhaul through Cave Rock, a sacred site of the Washoe people.








you can check out the story on this website if you like: http://www.laketahoecityconcierge.com/activities/cave-rock.asp


We kept driving until we came to the narrow bridge of land that creates Emerald Bay, but I didn't take this picture of Emerald Bay because I was too busy trying to calm my breathing from the crazy passenger perspective of the too-tall, too-wide uhaul on the narrow stretch of road (no offense to the driver, of course.)



narrow and tight turns and steep and there's traffic coming and cars impatient behind...




here's Josh attempting to make one of those Tahoe speed boats soar like a paper airplane







hee, hee











SoLo loves my mom. He would see her from far down the beach, and perk up - running to greet her.
My mom has been caretaking this property for a number of years now - she always chooses the nicest places to live!








Nice to make tracks on this soft sand.


Josh later jumped in the lake and took off swimming, he kept swimming and swimming until he was a very small swimming man far out in the water.






We took the long way round leaving Tahoe so that we could see Lassen. Lassen peak erupted in 1914 - there are boiling mud pools percolating next to lakes still covered in ice.














bye for now!






next chapter: the Pacific ocean...