21 June 2010
Happy summer solstice!
Today marks the beginning of an 11-day vacation. We're cycling from Lake Tahoe to Yosemite on a Bicycle Adventure Club (BAC) trip led by our friend Alison. In all, there are about 18 of us on the trip. Ingrid and I are the youngest. Everyone else is retired!
The logistics of a trip like this are challenging. Fortunately, Alison is a master. We took our bikes to her house on Saturday, with pedals off and handlebars rotated. There, they were loaded into a panel truck so that she and Johno could drive up to Reno on Sunday. Yesterday, I took John down to the airport to pick up a one-way rental minivan so that he could could drive six of us to Reno today where everyone was meeting. There, after lunch, we climbed into a minibus for the hour long mostly return trip back up to Tahoe City on the NW shore of magnificent Lake Tahoe.
There were some adventures, such as rear brakes on the panel truck that didn't work. But in the end, everyone made it here safely and on time. The sky is brilliantly blue. We had some nice afternoon thunder over the lake and a brief, light shower with the largest raindrops I can ever remember seeing.
Tomorrow we are taking a local ride to get a bit acclimatized to the altitude. Then on Wednesday we are heading south.
2 comments:
Lake Tahoe looks beautiful
Thanks Bill for the pictures. I think I'll just delete my file of the trip! Say, How did you get those 3 chipmunks to stand together like that? Elaine and Gus
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