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The long goodbye - Part III
Colin got back to Tahoe for the last part of our long goodbye. Drop off the river gear and pack up Bertha for our new life of full-time travel. The "wow" factor is huge.
Tizzy had a boy on 11/10. Beautiful Jackson Faulkner is one lucky baby to be part of the Chen family,
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Reno, Biggest Little City In The World.
... during the early summer the river is alot faster then the late summer. Also if you kayak, Reno has a huge kayak park on the river, which the pros come too every year..
Now your still looking for the sun and water, the other hot spot is called Lake Tahoe, and if you never heard of Lake Tahoe, it is the gem of lakes. Mark Twain wrote about it. The water is crystal clear up to 80 to 100 ft. Now there's plenty of beaches to hit there. The main ones ...
Texas is no joke..
... might know the place or people to show you in the right direction. Which lucky for me, I had a ton of friends that where with us and that either lived or still lives in Austin. But unfortunately I couldn't stay that long. Which was a shame, because I wanted to see more of Austin. But I did enough to get me by.
The day of the flight, was a long day in general, but not bad. I fly enough where I have things to keep me sane. *Tip*, If your taking a flight ...
THE LONELIEST HIGHWAY TO LAKE TAHOE
We were now on our way West and South and planning our destination San Francisco and Christine and Paul in a few days. We opted to avoid the Interstates and take the less travelled roads and therefore, found ourselves on the 50 West, known as the "Loneliest Highway in America". How true that it is. Miles upon mile of seldom used road, it climbs and dips and helter-skelters and travels in long perfectly straight lines hour after hour and all this at around 7,500 feet. Look ...
End of the Road
... is way worse than
overseas. More security at the airports, more police on the streets here. I guess our country has really gone paranoid. But it is good to travel and feel reasonably safe from those fanatics.
I was worried that I would miss my connection in Paris since I only had an hour. I was transferring in the same terminal, but it was more passport control, security checks and then I fortunately found an airline person that gave me the correct gate ...