Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Kings Beach

On March 22, 2024, I wrote that the previous Wednesday my friend called to say we needed to change our plans because the hostess for our trip to Tahoe was having car problems.

Later we spoke on the phone and agreed that we would drive her car to Martinez. So, I made a train ticket for us to leave from Martinez. After that, I tidied the apartment and ran errands and checked in on work ahead of my vacation. After that, I packed and headed over to my friend’s house. She and I went out to an Indian food place and a bar on Haight before stopping by the grocery store to get a couple of items

I slept well enough and the next morning we headed out at 7:45 and drove to Martinez where we dropped the car off at our hostess’ house. She owns a condo in Tahoe and had invited us to stay with her for the weekend. However, she had work to do so would be leaving after our train had departed.

After she dropped us off at the Martinez train station, we walked around the marsh for about 45 minutes and ate bagels. After we boarded and sorted out our seats we went to the café car, where I set up my computer to do a little bit of work.

The trip was nice. As we headed through the Yuba bypass, we looked at all the birds and after Sacramento, enjoyed the climb to Auburn. She pointed out areas through which she had recently gone hiking and a lot of other stuff out the window. We looked at the trackside geology near Emigrant Gap and made sure to sit on the side with the view as we passed through Yuba gap. As we passed Kidd Lakes, we decided to pack. However, I also showed her Tinker Knob, which I had climbed two summers before.

Once we were off the train in snowy Truckee, we went to the taco shop across the street. Our Hostess, who had left Martinez about two hours after us, found us having a drink along the river then. That was when we headed over to Kings Beach.

Our hostess had already stopped through her condo in Kings Beach by then so the house was nice and toasty. We spent a few hours settling in. I played a bit of catch-up with my messages. Eventually, we drove into town and had pizza at a nice place which offered detroit style. We then went to Safeway and bought a mountain of food.
Back at the condo we unloaded the food and looked at what was on offer in the house.  Then we had some drinks

I had a light headache. I was not a very happy person.

I texted my older sister about staying in Kings Beach. 

We settled into watch Sherlock Holmes–our hostess found the code for prime.  My friend made it through the whole movie but our hostess went to bed. We found that there was a bit of snow coming down at the end of the night when we went to bed after 10.

On the day that I wrote this I was up at 9.  My friend and I left at around 10:30 and went to Incline village and got some coffee before driving to Spooner Lake and going on a walk. The lake was totally frozen but we managed to find a few dry patches to avoid freezing.  I didn’t want to go around the whole lake but we agreed to it and in the end it was cool seeing the aspen groves.  

Later we drove halfway back to Incline Village to go for a walk in Secret Cove.  You have to park on the highway and descend to it.  While there was a lot of snow it was mostly easy to avoid it.  I noted that it was likely amazing in the summer.  We sat on the shore and took in the view.  We also saw a few others there taking photographs.

The drive back to the house in King’s Beach was easy.  Once we were back inside, we engaged in light conversation.  I took a short nap and I texted my older sister.  We made plans for her to visit.

At 6 we set up for a salmon dinner and ate at 7.
 
This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.

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