Lake Tahoe

We are now at Lake Tahoe. Unfortunately we have not been able to add any photos to the blog for a while but will do so when we get the chance. The hotel (yes hotel!) we are staying at has it's own bathroom/toilet, kitchen, cable tv, double bed - its pure luxury and it comes with swimming pool, hot-tub and private beach access to the lake (2 minutes walk away). Doesn't sound like backpacking, but costs a tenner (no pound sign here) a day. Its also comes with all you can eat breakfast (which doubles up as lunch if enough is eaten) and free internet access, which explains the longer blog.

We visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium which had a new Great White Shark added to the Tuna tank. Obviously Nikki struggled to get me home and we spent most of the day there. On the way back we took a slight unplanned detour that took us to the top of some mountains in Santa Cruz. We stopped at a reserve park with Redwoods and a little hike.

Rach - The hike was 1 mile long and had warnings of cougers that have attacked unprovoked. Seemed a lot spookier with just two as well. We even said we missed you being with us (We need the slower runner to boost the odds!).

On the way up the mountain we drove into the clouds and back down through them, with huge drops either side of the car. I found it exciting, Nikki didn't. Anyway, we got back to San Fran in the end.

Lake Tahoe is nice but not as impressive as we expected, which is probably because we are on the state line with the Casinos on the left (Nevada) and tacksville on the Right (California). We have pretty much just been relaxing on the beach soaking up the sun, however the factor 40 is stopping the tan from developing.

Will add photos soon to prove we are here really.