South Lake Tahoe

Lake Tahoe was a pretty little town, especially as the snow really hit while we were there, and all the buildings look like wood cabins (even Starbucks). Unfortunatey we didn’t actually see much of the area – the cable car up the mountain was $68 dollars each (say £90 for both of us!) so we didn’t go up and it was constantly snowing so we wouldn’t have seen the views anyway. For the same reason we didn’t see much of Lake Tahoe either!

So we left after 2 nights and attempted to drive south – as we left town it really started to come down, we battled on against the snow for an hour but as we hit an unploughed and lonely road the fear set in. We could see barely 5ft ahead of the car, at one point Matt got out to step up the bank to read a sign – and landed in it thigh deep! So being our sensible selves, and having seen too many ‘lost in the wilderness’ movies, we headed slowly back to Lake Tahoe. So 2 hours after we had left we were back but we made a second escape attempt by the busiest highway – mostly well ploughed but still a bit hairy in parts as we really were in a blizzard – and in the end we did make it to Nevada.