We have been here at the Webb casa for 11 days and have done a lot of relaxing, had \240good food, great weather and amazing views of the lake, rivers and trees. Taking it day by day and not doing a lot of pre-planning took practice for me.
So - what have we done?
Walked to the nearest rock beach several times.
Found this in the rocks on the beach - appropriate!
In the woods behind the townhouse.
There are many woods behind the treehouse and flowers everywhere. It is also a cut through to the pool and hot tub.
Path to the pool. Not sure what this flower is, but it’s pretty.
On Sunday we went to Tahoe City. It is such a cute town. Parked and walked up and down the streets with Missy in her stroller. On Sundays they have live music on Commons beach. Glad we walked by there as we discovered they had a sailboat cruise that went out of the marina.
A one room theater. Playing Deadpool 3 - 3x a day. How quaint is that!
Beautiful flower baskets hanging in the streets.
Loved this statue. It is made with 200,000 pennies- yowza.
We had lunch at Tahoe National Brewery. Nice view but disappointing that they did not have most of their beers. But the food was solid!
My shirt matches the water!
My lunch - roasted veggies and tzatziki sauce with grilled chicken- was quite tasty.
Diane’s lunch - meatball sub with pesto sauce.
On the trails behind the house
And then down to the beach for coffee at Watermans
Monday was our sailing day. We walked in the morning, just was lazy and then went on a 2 hour sail from the Tahoe City Marina at 5:30 to catch the sunset. The water is so amazingly clear here - it is incredible! Had some vino and got these amazing pictures. Liked the cruise, but was expecting a little more from our captain in terms of talking more about the lake.
The Olympics are on while we are here, so it was running in the background a lot. I do love watching gymnastics and Tuesday morning was the women’s gymnastics all around team competition. Of course our powerhouse led by Simone Biles won the gold. We \240were glued to the TV. We did go sit by the pool for a little while, after jumping in the hot tub and read our books.
We finished this off at dinner at Gar Wood, a \240really nice restaurant around the corner that we could walk to. Started with coconut shrimp and split a filet. The only \240disappointment was the hot fudge Sunday that was short on fudge.
On Wednesday, we got up early and went to Emerald Bay for a hike and to put our toes in the water.
View from the top before we hike down a mile
Lower Eagle Falls about a half a mile round-trip hike near the bottom
Vikingsholm Building - was a private home and the only one in the bay before it was donated to the state.
Grass growing on the roof.
The areas around here are very very crowded. Luckily, we had gotten a parking spot on the street, but they were very hard to come by when we left. We decided to make the trek around the lake so that we could make sure we saw it all. The only place we stopped in Southlake was at this brewery.
Lackluster beer and no ambience. But Diane did get a really cool T-shirt.
Decided that we were missing Mexican food so Diane found us a place in Incline Village - Lupitas. Wow - \240the houses in this area were very large and very beautiful. The restaurant was in a strip center and all inside. The owner was super nice and the food was really good.
Taco and green enchilada for Di.
Wiped out after that walk and two margaritas so time to take it easy.
Thursday we watched more gymnastics and then went for a walk.
Tee practicing the balance beam
Diane on the par course on the trails getting ready to tackle that hill.
We saw this ad and a few people told us about Truckee Thursdays so we decided to go. Good call on Diane’s part to go early for parking because that place was a zoo.
It was kind of what I expected with lots of local vendors, music, and beer, which we could not drink because you had to pay cash.
Rather than eating off the food trucks surrounded by a bunch of kiddos in the heat we popped in this place.
Air conditioning- not something everywhere.
Those two beers were really good.
And this charcuterie board was really good. I am going to learn how to make those flowers salamis.
Took a quick stroll down to the Truckee River before heading out.
We looked up two other breweries in Truckee to try and visit after leaving the madhouse of the festival but had zero luck so we headed back to our faithful place CBs, which is also around the corner from the townhouse.
Friday we left early to go to Reno since it was going to be 100. What a disappointing little town. We did the standard tourist picture and walked around downtown for a short while.
Cool sculpture. Unfortunately, it is heavily cropped on the left side because of the skateboarders sitting there.
Walked around the Riverwalk for a short while
Nice bridge - \240wanted to put my feet in the water, but there were too many homeless people
Decided to go to the Atlantis casino. Not to gamble but figured we could get some lunch there. Decided to have some sushi and lobster bisque and Diane had a lobster roll with clam chowder.
Ended our day in Reno with some stopping shops for some essentials. Gas, Total wine and Trader Joe’s. Really, after being in that madhouse at Trader Joe’s I really don’t get the appeal of that place.
Wow - Saturday, August 3 already. We did a lot of nothing today. I worked for a little while and we cleaned the townhouse and Diane cooked us dinner. To end our evening, we walked down to the beach and watched a lot of dogs frolicking in the water.
And it is Sunday so we decided to go to the Old Post Office Café again for breakfast. I was a bad girl and had pecan pancakes and Diane had an omelette. We really need to share these plates as they are huge. We ordered one, but our bartender filled our glasses again, which necessitating taking a little nap before heading back out in the afternoon.
We wanted to go and walk on the Truckee River Trail. The problem was parking, which we finally found. We decided it was just way too busy to hang out there.
But we did have our first bear sighting. Actually, we saw one lying down when we first got there and then we saw these two wrestling around in front of everybody. They really are not scared of humans which is kind of scary.
After leaving the very crowded Tahoe City we drove over to the very crowded Kings Beach. But we went to Bear Belly Brewing \240and had the place practically to ourselves- it was very peaceful. The beer was not that good, but mine was called golden bear, and it reminded me of Missy.
Hard to find a place to yourself around this area.
We went back to our haunt CBs for pizza and beer. We ran into our hostess from breakfast - she works here as well and remembered us. She is from Serbia on a four month tourist season work visa. She will work in this area through September and then travel for a month before having to go home. We met people on this program before but we can’t remember from where - they come from the Balkans.
