Lure Resort Downieville

Today is Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009. Lots to do before we take off next Friday. Clean up the trailer, make the bed, stock it, and then start praying. We're anticipating taking off early next Friday and make our way to Tonopah, Nevada. I'm hoping the rain we're expecting next week doesn't interfere with our plans. Keep your fingers crossed.

... 8 years. This is a rather long time seeing as though every summer we spent two separate weekends at this campground for as far back as I can remember. When we first started going to the campground at Lake Valley Reservoir just outside of Truckee on Highway 80 we camped in the public campground. After the adults decided to bring a gas-run blender and a raucous game called holey-board we were kindly asked to either quiet down or not ...

I'm not repacked from Salt Lake City yet, but I am really, truly, leaving for France TOMORROW. I'm a little apprehensive about my language skills, but what the hell - I am going to have a blast! Irene and Janie have organized this trip to a tee and I am feeling overwhelmingly lucky (and of course excited) right now! I'm gonna miss California's summer ...

Zwei Tage verbrachten wir am und um den Lake Tahoe. Eindruckvolles Suesswasserreservoir (Umrundung mit dem Wagen: 117 km). Nachdem wir an der Suedkueste des Sees historische Zentren aus der Siedlerzeit besuchten, sind wir ins benachbarte Alpine Meadows gereist. Hier hatten wir ersten Baerenkontakt in der Umgebung des Ferienhauses. Heute gings hinunter nach Grass Valley. Daselbst besuchten wir die Empire Mine (riesiges Gold-Bergwerk mit tiefen Schaechten bis 2500m).

Our next stop was at another memberhip RV Park in Nevada City, CA. It was a nice laid back place in the forest, which can be very relaxing if all you want is to get away. However, we pretty much have a policy that any park where we stay must have at least 2 out of 3 important criteria. Namely, satellite TV, internet and cel reception and remote locations with lots of trees doesn't always ...

... catastrophic but were "very likely" being driven mostly by human activities. The guest speaker acknowledged the points that Louis raised but maintained that there is still some controversy about the underlying causes of global warming. Louis took his email address with the intention of doing some more reading and getting back to him. Louis later recalled reading that rice cultivation has been mentioned in a number of scientific studies as major sources of carbon ...

We begin this trip from our home (featured on the introduction) in Grass Valley. No it is not snowing here yet. It is lovely and all the leaves are red, gold and brown and falling. Hopefully we will have better pictures to introduce to this blog but for now we are very new at all this logging on line. We are in the final stages ...

Ville située à 2h de toute civilisation, 6 cols de montagne à franchir, 56 miles de routes sinueuses, nous voici dans la capitale isolée du mountain bike en californie... J'Ai nommé: Downieville. pop: 250. Nous sommes certainement les 2 seuls québécois assez zèlés, mais surtout mong'gol, pour se perdre si loin dans la californie centrale du nord pour trouver des trails de becyk... Sérieusement, nous somme profonds...MAIS... MAIS... Ce fut une ...

... play. Tons of rivers, lakes and great hikes. I work 4 hour days so when we get off we swim in our swimming hole and then get to hike so many trails. And the best part is the hikes are in national forests and there are no leash laws in national forests.

12/12/06 Donny and I went to the Seafloor Systems office in Sacramento to build some Hydrolite TM systems for the US Army dive teams. They are fast deployable, single beam survey systems with super sweet handheld computers with GPS capabilities and Panasonic Toughbooks with touch screens to log the data and process. We spent a whole ...