Lake Tahoe Hotels - Reviews and Rates

The journey has begun! Austin and I planned a 7 month trip in roughly 1 1/2 months and finally we are outbound! With our backpacks loaded and our passports in hand we departed the Charleston Airport destined for Lake Tahoe, Nevada to visit our brother Michaels new home. As we arrived in Reno, NV a set of stairs met our airplane as opposed to a j...

I spent the long weekend climbing and exploring the evergreen forests around Lake Tahoe National Park. Lake Tahoe is situated at the border between California and Nevada. Nestled in the middle of the Sierra Nevadas, the alpine lake was the perfect spot to relax after the dry heat of Palo Alto.

We took a scenic drive through the Northern C...

Continued blog....the last scene from last blog...Then we finally got on the road at around 1030pm PST...which for us East Coast players, is 130am, get in the car and pretty much try to get some sleep, B was flying down the roads trying to make good time, we get to the condo, and we unpack the car, get our room assignments and go to bed, I final...

We had a fairly sleepless last night in San Francisco, mainly due to some random students making a lot of noise at 3am. We ended up getting up around 7:30am and I had a shower and then went down to book our shuttle to the airport. We faffed around a bit and packed, before waiting outside for our 9:30am shuttle. It arrived almost 20 minutes late ...

So we take the detour across the rainy cold snowy mountains, and spend the night in Lake Tahoe. This of course has to involve some shopping in the Adidas outlet to cheer us up.

US 50 travels over 400 miles across Nevada. Along the way it only passes through 5 towns. That gives you an idea of why this road has been dubbed "The Loneliest Road in America." The scenery is spectacular - open expanses of Great Basin Desert punctuated by numerous mountain ranges. The mountains in Nevada run north-south, so as you drive across...

Lake Tahoe is situated on the California and Nevada border, and to be honest we werent too sure what to expect from the place. We were even contemplating not coming here at all but we had a few extra days with the hire car so we thought why not. Driving from Yosemite to Lake Tahoe gave us such a wonderful surprise. We didnt see any actual snow w...