Truckee Thursday

On July 24, 2025, I wrote that the day before we had spent the day on the shore of Lake Tahoe and slept OK. We woke up really early at Base Camp Hotel. I left them with their iPads and I got coffee in the lobby, which was a really good idea.

At 10 we packed our bags and checked out before walking to Rosie‘s at around 11:45. The meal was great. We quickly walked to the transit center but the bus was leaving at a different time than what the app was telling us.

The bus dropped us on Deerfield near the Post Office. I started a load at the laundromat and we headed over to the bike shop to rent bikes before we walked to the campground.

The walk went fast enough. We were carrying those big backpacks. So, we took a break at Donner Creek. Then we crossed Cold Creek and passed through the neighborhood there before entering the Donner State Park at Cold Canyon Road. We found the path into the campground. We selected the same hiker biker site we had been at previously next to another tent.

I went back to the laundromat without our big bags. We got the laundry and got our rental bikes. I had a drink a juice at Starbucks. We rode River Road to downtown and I looked at the different hotels there. I booked a room for the coming Saturday at West River house, which was was previously the Red Right Hostel.

Later we went to the pizzeria where we played the one arcade machine in the downtown area. It was Truckee Thursday, which is a crazy time in that town. We walked to the ice cream parlour before we rode to Sierra College on our way back to the campground. We bought snacks and some lights at CVS for the next day. Then we rushed through the dark to the campground.

We managed to avoid losing some of our stuff from our bag. ONe of the boys was really sad that he had dropped something but we found it. When we got to the campground, we re-organized and got in our bags.

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