April 19th – April 24th

The last time I updated my Tally Book I told we were heading for Jackson CA for a couple of days… well we in fact did that.  We stayed at the Rancheria Casino RV Park.  Our intent was to stay for 1 night but as plans tend to do, things went awry.  We planned to stay one night but quickly decided to stay for 2 nights because we had done a lot of driving and we had a lot of internet stuff (like bills) to catch up on . 

Then we planned to leave on the Tuesday but they had received about 10" of snow in the Sierras and chains were required to go over the mountain, which of course that is where we wanted to go so we stayed another night.  What a night that was…

It was not a pretty sight with WD hugging the great white telephone ALL night… it felt like a repeat from last fall when I had the twisted intestine.  Fortunately, it wasn't a repeat.  Needless to say, we stayed put for another day as I was in no shape to drive.  We had to leave on Thursday because the park was full that night as a big group was coming in.  So we set out, still unable to cross the mountain due to more snow, for the foothills and one of the few places to stay that was open.

We drove to Cisco Grove where there was an open RV park that could accommodate us… they only had 3 sites available and only 1 would allow us to stay hooked up.  The park roads and campgrounds were covered in snow with 4' snow banks on both sides of the roads.  We survived and the next morning was beautiful.  We headed to the Silver City RV Park near Carson City.  We drove around the south end of Lake Tahoe, which was gorgeous!  (pictures at Lake Tahoe Plus) We arrived Friday PM.

Saturday we took it easy and did some sightseeing in Carson City.  There is an old part of town, which has been restored and is right across from the current Assembly Building.  The downtown is very pretty.  We went to church at a huge church, double the size of St Paul's where the priest was very young and had difficulty with English so the Deacon delivered the Homily… he did a good job.  It is interesting to attend different churches with different environments.  Well, tomorrow we are going to drive around the rest of Lake Tahoe…

Keep your loops open until next time.