It is so rare in my case to spend a vacation with my family. My brother took me to a Helicopter Tour in Lake Tahoe, it was the second helicopter ride that I had since High School I felt safe that it looked so fine or rather that there’s a minimal chance of getting into a crash. George the helicopter driver said that the our transport is one of the quietest helicopter. It was only about 10 minutes later after the take off when I realized that the helicopter wasn’t noisy. We still wore the headsets to to maximize the comfort, [View Full Entry]

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"Lake Tahoe is one of the few places on earth where people feel an emotional response just by looking at it. Yosemite Valley, the giant sequoias, the Grand Canyon, a perfect sunset on the Pacific Ocean ... these are a few other sights that occasionally can evoke the same response. But Tahoe often seems to strike the deepest chord." - Tom Stienstra, a guide to MOON Tahoe Camping & Hiking We came across this passage en route to Tahoe, driving Hwy 5 from Crater Lake. What we found startling in it was that not only did it list every destination in [View Full Entry]

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28th June, 2009. Travel to South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Up and out of Reno, over some big hills and down into Carson City (another Nevada Casino town), passed through quickly and onto the bottom of the Sierra Mountains (forever crossing these), a climb up to 7500ft and then dropped down to Lake Tahoe, absolutely stunning, not a cloud in the sky and the Lake flatter than a pancake, followed the Lake around until we hit California (it's like a line in the sand, Nevada border has Casino's right to the edge, California nill). Only travelled a distance of 57 miles today [View Full Entry]

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29th June, 2009. South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Sore Butt this evening, we decided to go on a 11 mile bike ride, up early so we could get in before it heated up, hired two push bikes and headed off around a section of Lake. Through houses, industrial, anything else but lake, in the end we had to take detours down to the Lake every time we wanted to have a look. Still a great ride, had a look at a couple of the beaches and a Ranger walk, Lake Tahoe is an Alpine Lake, 6300 ft up, average of 989 feet [View Full Entry]

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Well well well...... last week we were graced with the presence of Ma and Pa Wetton..... We spent the first 3 days skiing. Nat was instructor and her 3 pupils did exceedingly well! With Nat's Ski School officially up and running, it was all go on the mountain as we snowploughed, parallel turned and fell down each piste in turn. We even had our own lookalike ski patroller with Dave in his red jacket! I thought skiing seemed easier to pick up than boarding, and less painful, but it seems a lot harder when you go off piste or hit moguls. [View Full Entry]

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Well, its been a few weeks since we last updated the blog... since then, we had a visit from the boys (Kev, Brass, Mike and Flem)... They came a few days after we arrived back from San Fran. In the 5 days they were here we had so much fun and were blessed with a huge dump of powder, which was a god send for Kev and I, to soften our numerous falls!! We took them to the infamous Womack's ribs joint and to the casinos where they warmed up for their Vegas trip (The warm up paid off as we [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! Sorry we havent updated the blog for a while! But we didnt want to bore you with more of the same until we had seen and done a little more. Also we would like to say a very big thank you to everyone who has sent us a message, we enjoy reading your comments and they remind us of what and who we are missing, and make us laugh, so keep them coming. Well, where to start, we have done quite a bit since our last entry, we were pretty 'green' but after a week amongst the locals I [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Zephyr Cove We arrived today at about 11:30am after landing at Los Angeles at 2pm yesterday. The flight went well and we made up an hour, then nat got detained for 'secondary questioning' at the US Passport Control, something to do with her bright pink fleece and dodgy student visa from a few years back! Anyhow we picked up the shuttle bus to pick up our rental car (Jeep Cherokee) and headed out of a sweltering LA 85 Farenheit! Although I thought the traffic in the UK was bad this was worse with 10 lanes moving at 5 mph [View Full Entry]

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Here are pictures from my student SAF chapter's 2008 National Convention trip. This year, it was in non-descript Reno, which was somewhat disappointing. We redeemed ourselves and our trip, however, by taking a small voyage around Lake Tahoe and then onwards to Sacramento. The majority of my pictures are from the Lake Tahoe region. [View Full Entry]

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Lake Tahoe After leaving San Diego we headed across to a new state Nevada! James who has done this journey before directed us through the dessert. It was a long 10 hour journey but the views were interesting; barron lands, mountains and mirages being created by the heat. I had a bit of an error when I stuck my head out the window at 80 mph and forgot I had my seeing glasses on...I no longer have them. We stopped at one point in the dessert which had been recorded as the hottest temperature reached in the world. We met James' [View Full Entry]

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