Echo Lake, oooooooh pretty

Day 2: Lake Tahoe

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October 15th 2006
After a good night's sleep and an early start we began the long drive to Lake Tahoe. As you leave San Francisco across the Bay Bridge you are treated to a wonderful sight that is Oakland. You come from the sophisticated and cosmopolitan San Fran and enter a thoroughly depressing industrial city populated by cranes and general miserable dockland debris. It's a wonder anyone ever makes it across the ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more