North Lake Tahoe

The crew with pilots
pilot Debbie and Darby
Lettuce Ladies
Emerald Bay waterfall




Leaving Carson City was problematic because we both had TERRIBLE stomach aches. We decided the best thing to do would be to check out the Trader Joe's up the hill and maybe get some ginger or something. We ended up spending WAY too much time at TJ's. We hung around the sample area awkwardly long. We bought fancy salads, ginger chews, and truffles (don't ask me why). Then we headed over to Barnes and Nobel, a few blocks away. We spent the whole morning there, reading, sipping Jocelyn's specialty drink (it's free! just order one hot water and add milk, cinnamon, honey, etc).

Finally we decided to leave the bookstore. We biked up a seriously long pass (Spooner Summit) and got these cute boys from Davis U to take a picture of us at the top. Then we saw lake Tahoe. It was BEAUTIFUL!

After having spent a week in the desert, where the largest body of water we saw was our camelbak in our panniers, seeing a great big blue lake like this was amazing. We zipped down the mountain and rode to the north shore, Incline Village, aka Income Village (it's seriously pish posh there). So we were tired and wanted to see a movie. We went to the cinema and asked the ticket lady if we could watch Salt for free. She said we could, so we blobbed around in the movie theater watching Angelina Jolie kill ever character in the film. She was very tough. and impossible.

Then we met Deb #1 and Darby. They invited us to stay with them at Deb #2's house. Apparently she had a hot tub and was a really cool pilot and stuff. We wanted to go swimming, so we zoomed down the hill to a private beach and convinced the gate keeper that we just HAD to jump into that water. Ditching the bikes, we kicked off our shoes, tossed our helmets, and raced into the water, diving deep into the cool waves. It felt so refreshing to swim in snow melt. After plenty of swimming and splashing around, we got out our truffle box and a couple of bananas. MELTED. the truffles had become soup. Delicious chocolate soup, perfect for dipping bananas.


We rode up the hill, shopped at Raleys (and went sample crazy again), and arrived at the "Debbie squared" house. Deb #1 and Darby watched us fall into our routine cooking and home-making habits: set out our mats and sleeping bags, heat up the stove, open a can of soup. We ate an entire head of lettuce raw, just munching away. the hot tub was amazing! We looked up at the stars, relaxing in the hot bubbly water.


We fell asleep under a full moon and a sky full of stars.

The next morning we got to learn all about pilots and flying from Debbie #2. She showed us some cool books, pictures , and model airplanes. She told us stories about flyinf and landing and everything that can and does go wrong.

THANK YOU Deb and Deb and Sue and Darby!


We ate breakfast burritos and shared stoires together. Then we packed our things and biked into Tahoe city. We found a cafe and both fell asleep. The owner guy, who also owned a bike shop, came over and asked if we were biking across the country. (how did he know? do all cross-country cyclists fall asleep on his couches>?).

We slowly made our way too emerald bay, which i thought was the bay full of rocks for bouldering. When we arrived I realized I was wrong about that. THere was however, a beautiful waterfall and a wedding.


We continued circumnavigating the lake and ended up meeting up with Chadwick, whom we had met in Austin, Nevada. The three of us got ice cream and gossiped. Then Chadwick found us a place to stay (with the ice cream parlor kids).