Tuesday - Today was a busy day. My thermometer said 44 this morning, and I could see some frost on the roofs of the cars around us. We left the RVs about 8:15, had a great breakfast at Heidi's, then headed to the Nevada State Museum, which houses the old Historic Carson City Mint. This building has been added on to since our visit here 25 years ago, but we walked through the museum part, which included an underground mine, and the old Mint and lots of coins on display. There was a lovely silver service on display, from the USS Nevada, but my picture didn't turn out real good.
From there, we walked to the State Capitol. This building was completed in 1871, and although it has been remodeled over the years, it is still a working Capitol. The Governor's office is here, as well as the offices of the other state officials. The Senate and Assembly moved to another building in 1971, which was remodeled and enlarged between 1996 and 1997. Nevada is one of only three states in which the legislature is separate from the Capitol. We stepped into the Lieutenant Governor's office because he wasn't in, but the Guard told us that the Governor was busy signing new laws so we didn't go in there. They were working on the very beautiful grounds here, getting ready to lay some sod.
Joe was intrigued by some of these enormous trees, which he thinks were elm trees. Many of the trees had plaques in the ground identifying them, but we couldn't find that particular plaque.
From there we headed to Lake Tahoe, and Joe drove us around the entire lake so we got lots of beautiful views. We stopped in South Lake Tahoe at one of the beaches/marinas so we could get some pictures.
The snow on the mountains behind the lake make this really picture-perfect.
We had a quick lunch at McDonalds, then drove on around the California side to a Vista Point overlooking Emerald Bay. When Joe and I were here 25 years ago, we took a cruise on the lake and got to see this area up close. On that trip, we also hired a fishing charter and caught a few kokanee salmon.
A few miles further along, we came upon a bicycle accident. We don't know if the rider was hit by a car or something else happened, but the person was laid out on the side of the highway and we met emergency vehicles further on. Of course, there was road construction along here too, so that made traffic a mess. We passed a few bikers on this narrow road, and there was no bike path, so it definitely was a dangerous place to ride.
As we came across the north end of the lake, we made a pit stop and Mazie and I got to put our toes in the water. The water was crystal clear, and not as cold as we expected, although we were were only in a few inches of water.
Putting our shoes and socks back on. We never remember to take a towel with us.
We completed the circle, with lots of breath-taking views of this lake. Dave and Mazie stopped at Lake Tahoe back in the 60's but they didn't get to see this much of it.
We got back into Carson City about 5:00, made for a pretty long day. Joe took me to the Nugget casino for an hour, but it wasn't a very nice casino. I made a little (about $30) but Joe said I had to cover his losses, so I'm not sure how we came out. We are leaving here tomorrow, heading to Reno. We feel like to covered this area fairly well.
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