Is it ever!!
The size and the setting of that place is just incredible...and that's without actually getting into the surrounding park and peaks, lakes and streams.
And to see it with all the whitecaps around it :bow:
On the flight from LA to Portland two days earlier we flew over it and the pilot had pointed it out. I'm sure Jo has a photo from the air. It looked even more spectacular than from the ground.
Alturas to Tahoe City.
We doubled back this morning about 30 miles to rejoin our intended route. Apparently I killed a squirrel which was running across the road. Through Oregon and California there were always squirrels to be seen darting across the road. At some point when I was programming the days route into the GPS the previous night I thought I had got the route to Tahoe City right, which it was on the computer, but when I transferred the route to the GPS, the GPS decided on what it thought was a more suitable route, and I didn't actually notice that we'd missed the road I was expecting to take for several days. I had intended to head through the Lassen Volcanic National Park, but I followed the GPS instructions on a less exciting route to the same waypoint further on. It didn't click because the signposting was for the Lassen National Forest, which at the time I didn't realise was not the same place, just nearby.
Views of Lassen Peak
Passed through a small town where every shop on the main street was it's own individual cabin
more glorious sun
Continued further south to Tahoe City. A nice spot beside Lake Tahoe.
The motel I had chosen was right next to the Tahoe Mountain Brewery and I gave their menu of craft beers a good workout. Craft beers from microbreweries in the USA just about everywere we went ranged from $4-$6 for a pint. In fact, just about every restaurant we ate at offered a good range of locally brewed beers on tap. Only once on the whole trip was the choice of beer limited to "Miller, Bud or Coors". The Tahoe Mountain Passion Pale Ale was the pick of the bunch, a passionfruit infused pale ale. I will be keeping a keen eye out for this one in Melbourne.
Next to the lake we found a BBQ restaurant where we pigged out on pulled pork, ribs, slow cooked brisket and the usual coleslaw and mac & cheese side dishes.