A "No Photo" Day at Lake Tahoe

Why? The available internet connection is so slow.... How slow is it? It has been taking me 20 to 25 minutes to upload one photo. I had a few more on tap for yesterday that never got uploaded. We will be leaving this area tomorrow so hopefully we will have a better connection.

Yesterday we had driven to Virginia City and to get there we had to drive east on US 50. Let me take this opportunity to note that while we were on US 50 East, we felt the pull of Owensville, Ohio, just a couple thousand miles down that highway. You can walk to Batavia from Owensville. We had to resist the pull in order to finish our trip to Virginia City, Nevada. We will see you in a couple of weeks Batavia.

Today we drove to Tahoe City, where water from Lake Tahoe flows out through the Truckee River. There is a dam there which just happened to be celebrating the 100th anniversary to the day of its opening on September 10, 1913.

Near the dam there was a bridge which we gathered around in 1953 to watch a great number of large trout feeding on the salmon eggs we would throw to them. There was also a sign there which forbade fishing within 100 feet of the bridge.

The bridge is still there and at the nearby visitor center we bought packets of fish food to feed the trout. There very few trout there, but lots of seagulls, and they virtually fought each other for the fish food we were throwing to the trout. 

On the way to Tahoe City we passed famous Emerald Bay. Hopefully we will be able to post some photos at our next campground in Barstow.

Tomorrow we leave for Albuquerque, New Mexico, via Barstow, CA and Flagstaff, AZ.